Morehead City Travel Guide

Another issue that often worry about is security, but Japan is a country that is safe, especially for tourists, because the laws tend to be harder Nipponese with the offender when the victim is a tourist, which helps ensure their safety .

Although the reality is that Japan has one of the most important organized mafias in the world, the Yakuza, but surprisingly are very well tolerated by the people – are “syndicated” and have offices and any other company – and if you ask a Japanese may not have a bad opinion of the Yakuza. Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps one of the most surprising in a country as ‘modern’ and always up to date as what Japan is not widespread is the use of credit cards and the difficulties of finding an ATM.

But let’s talk about money, start at the beginning: the Japanese currency is the yen – that is pronounced in Japanese.

There are banknotes of 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 yen, and coins of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen, all with their value in western numbers except 5 yen coin, we can know its default value or kanji for the number 5 – ? pronounced go. Read the rest of this entry »