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    I am looking for hotels that offer roll in shower or accessible bathroom for a wheelchair bound person. I have been looking at some from accessible-Japan website, but I am unable to find the accessible rooms when booking

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    • (my name is Alejandra too!) Others may chime in here as well, but this is an issue not just in Japan. A hotel has accessible rooms available, but it’s not always easy to book the accessible room. My approach, if their website does not have a listing to book the specific accessible room is to contact the hotel directly (some may have an…

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    • I am currently doing the exact same thing. Hotels.com, Booking.com, Trivago and Agoda all require you book a room before you can contact the facility to verify that one of their accessible rooms is available. I am currently waiting for 3 refunds because they don’t REALLY have accessible rooms, just an accessible building. I finally booked with…

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  • Wheelchair charger compatibility

    Hi everyone! I’m hoping someone here might have experience with this. 

    I’ll be traveling to Japan soon and I use a Permobil power wheelchair (M Corpus VS) that runs on two 12V AGM batteries (24V system). My current charger is the standard Permobil charger labeled 120V / 50–60Hz / ~340W input, 24V / 10A output. 

    As I’m preparing for the trip, I…

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    • I contacted the manufacturer of my chair before going. I have a Whill C2 with a two-prong plug that I use at home in the U.S., which worked fine in the Japanese outlets. I know that’s a different setup, but I found that the manufacturer had accurate advice.

      • Thank you. I called US Permobil, they were a little clueless and asked if I asked AI.

        Oh noooo
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    • Looking for some help to assisted my fully Parapalegic Friend

      I’m not sure if there’s any help that can be done. But I have a friend who will be visiting soon with their helpers, and they need a hoist/life and a few other items. They already have their places of stay booked because it’s a large group. And they are also a wheelchair person. So the options were limited for them.

      But the issue right now…

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