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MemberThere’s a few forms to fill in and submit electronically. Basically you have to give the quantities of medication you intend to bring in and the specifications of them. You submit it and if there’s any questions they come back to you within a short time. If there aren’t any you don’t get a reply. When you submit your declaration you get an…
Reserving Shinkansen Wheelchair seat/space
Contact Wheelchair Travel to get them to book the tickets. You cannot get them online. You can only get wheelchair reservations for the Tokyo to Hakata route through the online system.
Accessible accommodation in tokyo, Mt Fuji and Kyoto.
The Hamacho hotel has an accessible bathroom (room 617). We were there a couple of weeks ago. It’s 10 minutes on level ground from the metro station (Suitengumae, Z10) and the Tokyo City Air Terminal. There’s a good 24 hour supermarket opposite and a bakery (Boulangerie Django) who do excellent croissants and pastries a few yards away.
Wheelchair gaps on train/subway cars
Josh is correct, there’s no simple solution to the location of the wheelchair space. What I found was that if there were no signs on the platform barriers look on the platform edge to see if there’s a strip of black rubber extending it for easier access. This isn’t the perfect answer but it’ will at least make it easier to get on board. We…
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