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Japan travel-needs guides
Plan around the people travelling with you, with guides to accessibility, food allergies, family journeys and finding help.
Travel-needs guides
What to do in an earthquake or typhoon in Japan: a visitor's guide
Set up alerts before you fly, what to do in the first seconds of a quake, when to head for high ground, and how typhoon train suspensions hit plans.
Open the guide Travel needsExploring Japan with a stroller
Plan family days around step-free station entrances, manageable transfers and places to pause along the way.
Open the guide Travel needsArranging airport mobility assistance in Japan
Plan your support from arrival to boarding, and prepare clear questions for the airport and airline.
Open the guide Travel needsPlanning meals in Japan with food allergies
Prepare questions about ingredients, translations, and cross-contamination for dining out and packaged items, along with clear ways to communicate your needs.
Open the food-allergy guide Travel needsEmergency numbers and visitor help in Japan
Find the right emergency contact or help desk, and know what details to have ready when you reach out.
Open the emergency-contact guide Travel needsPlanning a Japan trip around your needs
Bring together access, mobility, food and support questions to plan a trip that fits the people travelling.
Open the travel-needs guide Travel needsVegetarian and vegan food in Japan: a first-timer's guide
"Vegetarian" isn't enough in Japan: the catch is fish stock (dashi). Get a Japanese phrase card, temple-food prices from ¥3,800 and chains with plant-based menus.
Open the guide Travel needsBuying cold, fever and pain medicine in Japan: drugstores, labels and limits
What to buy for a cold, fever, pain or hay fever in Japan, how to read 第1類/第2類 labels, and the 2026 rules on codeine and pseudoephedrine.
Open the guide Travel needsCoping with Japan's summer heat: heatstroke alerts, timing and what to buy
How Japan's heatstroke alerts and WBGT work, when to sightsee in summer, what to buy at konbini and drugstores, and when to call #7119 or 119.
Open the guide Travel needsFinding and using toilets in Japan: stations, konbini, washlet buttons and slippers
Where to find free public toilets in Japan, what each washlet button does, what goes in the bin, toilet slippers and why to carry a hand towel.
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