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Hoist delivery and wheelchair accessible taxi
Hi everyone,
I’m planning my second trip to Japan from Australia. I’m a full-time wheelchair user, can’t walk, using hoist to tranfer. The first time we went to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka and got the hoist delivered to the hotel we stayed in each city with no issue – for some reasons I have been unable to contact that company which delivered the…
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Hello, and thank you for your post.
We can help arrange hoist (patient lift) delivery/setup and wheelchair-accessible taxi/transfer services in Japan.
To be completely honest, the Mt. Fuji area is a bit far from hoist service base, so we may not be able to provide a hoist immediately there, and the delivery/setup cost can be quite high due to…
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How about wheelchair-rental.jp?
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Accessibility tips for Hakodate
Cecelia recently shared some tips for this historic city in Hokkaido!
accessible-japan.com
Traveling to Hakodate in Winter: An Accessibility Guide – Accessible Japan
Is Hakodate accessible in the snow? I visited in December and found some important things you should know about the trolleys, airport buses, and steep icy hills.
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Great tips!
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Off to Karuizawa!
Trying out the accessible Green Car (first class). Nice accessible toilet and the space next to the seat is big enough for my power wheelchair.
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By chance were you travelling with luggage? If so, where did you put it? I can’t seem to find a wheelchair seat that also allows oversized luggage space. Is there something I am doing wrong?
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@Data unfortunately luggage is a huge issue for any seat. There is overhead storage but it is a bit limited – the Shinkansen design was only taking business travellers and locals on short trips into mind and not a lot of space was created for traveling with large suitcases.
You may want to try sending luggage ahead with forwarding…
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Workshops & crafting suggestions
Hello everyone!
I am an ambulatory wheelchair user looking for things to do in Tokyo. Do you have any suggestions for accessible workshops or crafting activities? Things like knife making, cloth painting, etc. Thus far, I have been contacting places individually, with limited success. I saw one post about activities near Haneda in this forum, but…
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Can it be a little outside of Tokyo? This place in Hakone is accessible: https://www.accessible-japan.com/places/japan/kanagawa-1/hakone/attractions/hakone-maruyama-bussan-and-karakuri-museum/
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Looking for my messages
Hello everyone 🙂
I must not be very talented 😅
I can’t find access to my old published messages; I tried to search with the glass as well but it doesn’t give anything…
Thank you in advance for your help 🙂
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Hi
Do you mean posts?
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@Anaïs K sorry, we have changed the way things worked (ie removed old forum type posts) but the current ones can be found if you go to your profile and select “Timeline”
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