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Japan is a leader in world tecnology. Everyone knows about the Bullet Train, hi-tech toilets, interesting gadgets and Japan also has super fast internet speeds as pretty much standard. However, this hi-tech country has not been quite as forward thinking in terms of its Wi-fi services with many hotels still offering internet services through LAN cables. Things are changing though, with some cities providing a free service….but this is by no means standard at the moment.
If you want to stay connected in Japan, what’s the best way to do it?
When I travelled to Japan recently, I got myself a Puru Puru Emobile Wi-fi device. I received the device in a nice little pack at my first hotel and never looked back. I stayed connected just about everywhere.
In the old tea district of Kanazawa…
On the Shinkansen…
On top of Tokyo…
On a small island…
and on a beach, on an even smaller, small Okinawan island…although there were parts of the island it didn’t work on…
In general, it worked pretty much everywhere. Whether it was 35 floors up or underground on the subway, the signal was pretty much perfect.
It was not incredibly cheap, but was a whole lot cheaper than using roaming Wi-fi on my phone. I needed to stay in contact with work and family and Puru Puru was perfect…it also allowed me to show off to friends back in the UK as I posted pics to Facebook and Twitter.
At the end of the trip, I just put it back in the provided envelope and put it in the post box, before I checked-in for my flight home. Easy.