Finals in Japan are held in January and early February. It’s great. I just had my second to last final this morning and from now on I have to write 4 more final papers, and my final paper is due the 7th of February. So during the next 2 weeks, I will be looking at the same screen with bug eyes. Yesterday in light of all my finals I managed to do a shoot.
I will probably be on a bunch of posters in Shibuya advertising the new M-Flo cd and I’ll be in a neighborhood calalogue, I’ll post more information when I know. Still doing a little bit of modeling here and there, hope to do it more this year.
Other than that I’m going to try and go to Odaiba for Valentine’s Day (with a friend), anyone have any suggestions? I’m renting a car and driving into Odaiba because I just want to do something out of the ordinary, and drive around, because driving in Tokyo is fun.
The picture I uploaded is from Kawaguchiko, I’m thinking of going back this summer and jumping into the lake with Mt. Fuji overlooking the lake. Nice relaxing chill spot in Japan.
In Japan if you have a foreign driving license it’s really easy to switch it to a Japanese license. I just finished up making my Japanese license recently. The JAF website will tell you more about switching your previous license.
First you need to go to the JAF office location, which is in the following picture. The office should be easy to walk to once you get to Hamamatsucho(浜松町）, which is on the green Yamanote(山手線） JR train line. It should only take an hour to translate the license from your previous country.
After the translation, you go Shinagawa(品川） and take a taxi to the place where you make the license, you can take a bus but it’s just easier to take a taxi, plus when I went, I fell asleep on the bus and ended up taking a taxi from who knows where anyways. hahaha. You take the taxi to 1-12-5 Higashioi Shinagawa-ku or print off this map and show it to the taxi driver.
Go to the third floor walk all the way to the back and take a number and voila, there should be someone there that speaks English. You take a written test in English that is composed of questions like, What do you do at a Stop light? What do you do at a stop sign? I got 9/10, then you take an eye exam, that’s over in literally 10 seconds. After that you take a number a schedule your driving exam at a later date at the same place. It’s very easy, I turned on the windshield wipers about 7 times instead of the blinker. So as long as you drive on the left side and stop where you are supposed to stop, you are fine and pass.
And at the end of the day I ended up with this beauty of a Japanese driver’s license.
If you have any additional questions feel free to comment. In total it only coast about ￥８０００
Name is Andrew Arz, thank you for dropping by my blog. I hope to entertain you all with this blog. Hopefully give everyone reading a nice insight on what it’s like to live in Japan and get around over here. I live in Tokyo and I’ve been living in Japan for 2 years now, and am enjoying the ride.
アンドリュー アーズ と申します宜しくお願いします。ブロッグを読んで楽しんで下さい。東京をもっと知りたかったら自分の体験を伝えたい。今２年ぐらい東京に住んでる、楽しんでる。
