Japan’s Highway Buses

Skipping the Trains to Cut Costs

Domestic travel in Japan has a reputation for being on the expensive side. Especially as a backpacker, it sometimes seems mind-boggling how everyone can afford it! The truth is the more well-known travel methods are actually not affordable for large swaths of the population. Luckily though that doesn’t mean that you can’t travel to many of the country’s sites on a budget…