Thursday, July 4, 2013

Bus en folie

Let me explain you how a bus ride is working in Japan!
First the busses are mostly always on time, so you just wait for the desired bus at the desire time (well except to today with 40 minutes delay, what's happening??????)
Then you enter on the back side and there are 2 possibilities:
you have a card (kind of money card) then you just put it on the sensor
you don't have then you take a ticket with a number, that will tell you later the price
and then here you go!
You seat peacefully waiting to come to your destination, but NO you cannot sleep, why????


Because the driver is speaking all the time and when not him some electronic voice!
First the voice: tells you welcome you are in this bus, at each stop, tell you the name of the stop and I think the next one. This one is  ok!
But the driver he tells you welcome at each stop and bye bye when you go. When you press the stop button also he tells something AND he describes everything that he is doing: I stop at the traffic light, I turn right, I go on the highway, I wait, I stop my engine!
Oh yes because when there is a wait more than 2 seconds they stop the engine! Which is killing me every time! Please just go!
Well the driver is speaking almost without interruption! when you survived it then you exit in the front, put your card at the sensor or put the exact money with your ticket in a box.
Yes but if I don't have the exact change!!! Easy, you can convert your money or bill and then you have the change.
And by exiting of course you have a bye from the driver :-)