7/11 Barcrawl Chapter Three: Tip Corner!

 Hi! Here's chapter three of 7/11 Barcrawl! This chapter is a bunch of tips and tricks we learned on our trip! They're little things that will make planning a trip to Japan easier. I hope they help! If you have questions about anything here, I'm more than happy to answer! Feel free to shoot me a DM on Twitter. 

Find previous chapters here:

FAQ

Chapter One

Chapter Two: Akihabara













That's it for this tip corner! There are a few more that I'm planning on making throughout the course of the comic -- leave me a comment if there is anything specific you would like to see me cover! For now, some links to things I mentioned in this chapter: 

- This is the link to the Pasmo website -- this is the train card we used in Japan. They're truly the best and taking trains around Tokyo is so cheap. I filled up a card with about 20 USD at the beginning of the trip and didn't have to refill it for at least a week, and we were taking multiple trains every day, sometimes even out into the suburbs. 

- For fun, here are a ton of links about the joys of Japanese 7/11:
7/11 Wants America to Love It As Much As Japan Does - an interesting read about all the things that make Japanese 7/11 great. 
The Joys of Japanese 7/11 -- I was saying "hear, hear!" to a lot of the things mentioned in this article. they totally nailed a bunch of the things I love about it. 
10 Things to Buy At Japanese 7/11 -- lots of fun ideas here. I agree about all of the above (especially karaage -- so good). Although they didn't mention my personal fave - the pizaman (pizza dumpling). 
The official 7/11 Japan website is here - it honestly has a ton of useful info about what kinds of services they offer.

- Here's some fun links about gashapon:
Japan's Tiniest Collectibles: Gashapon - this one has great pictures of the machines and starts out with some of the writer's childhood memories of getting gashapon on shopping trips - so fun!
World's Biggest Gashapon Store on Youtube - fun video of a huge store with tons of gashapon! 
Japan's Capsule Toys -- tons of info here on the history and evolution of gashapon toys. 
You can see examples of gashapon toys on Etsy! 
Tracing the evolution of Japan's colorful toy capsules -- I found this Japan Times article really interesting! 

- If you wanna know more about Japanese money, check out this website from the Japanese Mint! 

-For translation, Jisho.org is really the best of the best. But if you wanna get an electronic dictionary, there are so many cute ones! Here are a few examples: 
This is the exact one that I have -- I used it when I studied abroad and it was so useful.

Okay, that's all for now! I hope you enjoyed. 


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