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Japan 2 years ago2 years ago (edited)
Hello all. I hope to get some guidance about travel with a foldable manual wheelchair.
Do you know if you can take it on shinkansen\public trains and buses in Japan?
Does this extend to Japanese airlines, namely peach air?
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Hi Ling_ling!
Glad to have you in Tabifolk. You may want to add your question as a new topic in the “Discussions” tab of the Japan group since activity posts get pushed down and out of sight rather quickly and may go unseen.
Looking to get up close to (re-creations of) national treasures? Zoom-in with 8K monitors and more The Digital Gallery of Hōryūji Treasures exhibit:
https://www.accessible-japan.com/accessible-ancient-art/
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Accessible Ancient Art - Accessible Japan
Interact with digital content and graphical reproductions of the Hōryūji Treasures in a new digital exhibit that makes ancient art more accessible.
We are travelling to Japan in March. We will travel from Tokyo to Kanazawa to Kyoto to Kurashiki to Hakata and return to Tokyo by train. We have hired an electric wheelchair while travelling. We would like assistance booking tickets and reserving seats for a wheelchair on shinkansen trips while in Japan as this would work better than a rail…
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Hi Jeff!
You may want to post this in the “Discussions” tab as a new topic. This will help get the question in front of more people. (Activity posts get pushed out of view quickly)
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Hello everyone!I will be in Japan in March, I have an important question and perhaps you can help me, I have a physical disability, a 14 cm shortening of the tibia and fibula in my left leg and I use a lift to walk and I wonder if I can enter the temples with my lift, there is not a problem if I walk for a short time without it, but if I do…
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Hi there!
It might be best to post this as a new topic in the “Discussions” tab. Activity posts like this get pushed out of sight quickly and may go unseen. Sorry for the inconvenience but we want to be sure you get an answer
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A lovely article about visiting Japan with a disability:
tinyurl.com
Is this the easiest country in the world to explore by wheelchair?
Tokyo as a city of contradictions is well documented: thousand-year-old temples next to cafés staffed by robots; skyscrapers full of bustling shopping malls alo
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