Crustanoid 0 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Hi there new here. Hoping to visit Japan next winter. Looks like I have a lot to read up. Got a question - resorts in Japan do they usually have paper tickets or electronic automated gates that you go through? Friend of mine said they were mostly just paper tickets, thought it sounded a bit old fashioned for 'modern Japan' (of which I know little, don't laugh!) Cheers Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 both, though the paper, is actually plastic material. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Really? They are very papery here, complete with sogginess when damp/wet. I've been to 10 different places this season and all but one were paper (plastic?). The only one that had automated gates was Nozawa in Nagano. All the others in Niigata here and Kusatsu were a piece of paper. (plastic?) Link to post Share on other sites
quattro 1 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Niseko uses electronic lift passes. Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoEagle 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 A few of the bigger resorts use the electronic gates, the others mostly paper. Link to post Share on other sites
alexeiw123 2 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I know in hakuba, that happo one, hakuba 47/goryu and tsugaike all use electronic passes Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Nowhere in Myoko uses electronic passes. Judging by how wet the passes can be at the end of the day I'd say they are paper, not plastic. Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Yes I think paper is the word, not plastic. Perhaps it simply varies place to place. Link to post Share on other sites
s3phis 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Most ticket passes should be card coated in a polymer or a wax by now :S Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Nope - most of the places I went to last year - Gala, Kagura, Ishiuchi, Naeba and Tashiro all used paper :s Link to post Share on other sites
s3phis 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 The one thing that amuses me every time I come back here is: despite how far we've gone digitally, we're still stuck in the infrastructure of the 80s. The kitchen... my office... the buildings are still quite inefficient and old . I yearn for an electric kettle!!! Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 electric kettle? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 pot of hot water that stays at 60 or 90? And takes 3 hours to boil. Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 you can buy kettles in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Japanese water has longer H2O molecules so it takes longer to boil. Link to post Share on other sites
s3phis 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 We're currently boiling water on top of a oil heater Link to post Share on other sites
snowywharton 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Originally Posted By: Crustanoid Hi there new here. Hoping to visit Japan next winter. Looks like I have a lot to read up. Got a question - resorts in Japan do they usually have paper tickets or electronic automated gates that you go through? Friend of mine said they were mostly just paper tickets, thought it sounded a bit old fashioned for 'modern Japan' (of which I know little, don't laugh!) Cheers Shiga Kogen uses electronic chips. Cheers - Snowy Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 The only place that I have been that uses electronic tix is Hakuba 47. Friend of mine said they were mostly just paper tickets, thought it sounded a bit old fashioned for 'modern Japan' (of which I know little, don't laugh!) Yep you'd think that.....welcome to the contrasts of Japan!! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 And its always great trying to fish out the paper tickets from your washing machine Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 no people, it's called plastic..... Link to post Share on other sites
3da5rider 0 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Hunter Mountain also uses electronic tickets. A funny thing I've noticed about the large collection of paper lift passes I have is that they are all exactly the same size (9x6cm). Seems easy to counterfeit, don't you think? Back home in the States, lift tickets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some would have bar codes for lifties to scan in case they think you counterfeited yours. None of my lift tickets from Japan have anything like that. Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Happo-one uses the electronic tags, and buy one and they are useable in quite of few of the other Hakuba resorts. At the end of the day you insert them into a machine and it spits out a 1000Y deposit refund Link to post Share on other sites
XilR8 0 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday no people, it's called plastic..... What does Niseko use, Thursday? On Honshu most resorts are using paper paper. As in, when I tried to exchange my 3-day lift ticket for a free onsen pass, it was so sodden that it disintegrated when I tried to remove it from the pass holder. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Same here, lots of soggy tickets. I recall some of them having some sort of shiny finish. Interesting that there's no place in Niigata that I know of that uses electronic tickets. Link to post Share on other sites
DJElo 0 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 thats really strange.. in nz on mt. rhuapehu they use hard plastic for the season passes,others are paper..really annoying as my friend has had it ripped off after a crash n shit ;/ they still use hand scanners down there it would just be so much easier with chip cards that need no people to scan ..just a pole you walk past/rub on and it will let you through..i have 3 diff chip cards for skandinavia and the alps..also being able to load them online instead of queuing is nice Link to post Share on other sites
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