Japan cheapest way to travel? Is carpool/ride share common in Japan?

handyman_hank

I will be travelling to Japan for 2 weeks and found train tickets little bit expensive. Usually i travel like a backpacker and always travel with a budget. I will be staying different cities in Japan and looking for a cheapest possible option to move within different cities. In the past especially affluent countries, i have used extensively buses and sometimes shared rides which proved really feasible. I need to know the following few questions:...

Originally asked by Ali Awan on Stack Exchange (travel) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The cheapest way to travel in Japan is to hitchhike . Getting out of major cities is difficult, but once you're on the road, it's generally amazingly easy to get rides. Some knowledge of Japanese helps, but is not mandatory. Further reading: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Japan Ride sharing is not common, because driving is not the budget option in Japan if you're paying for it: road tolls are extremely high. If you hitchhike, most of your rides will be people traveling for work.

Full answer by lambshaanxy: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/78468 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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