Archive for February, 2012
ACCJ Journal | Tax day Again
Tips for filing your 2011 Japan individual return. … plus, remember that while your visa status and the length of your visa are vital factors in determining your resident status, they are not the absolute deciding factors.
[Source] ACCJ Journal
Japan: visa application centre to re-open 15 – Sapna Consultants
The visa application centre will re-open on Wednesday 16 March 2011.
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Canadian to Japan VISA questions
I'm looking at several potential job opportunities right now in Japan. Canada and Japan have working holiday program in which acquiring visa would be.
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i am from Peru, American Resident, do I need a visa to travel to …
Image by Latin America For Less Question by travelscout: i am from Peru, American Resident, do I need a visa to travel to Japan for two weeks?? Best.
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MEXT Research Student and Visa Question – Japan Reference
Hi, everyone! I've just acquired a visa in y embassy for my 2-year stay as as Research Student in Japanese university (MEXT program). But confusingly,
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Isle of Wight UK: Popular for weekend and short breaks, but additionally a great day out
It had been at least 12 years since I had last been to the Isle of Wight, and we decided to go for the day when staying nearby just outside Southampton. It was a great and varied day, and had a real holiday feeling to it. I am not certain I would be one of those that wanted to spend days or weeks there, but as a short day or few days it is highly recommended (unless you like sailing or walking or strenuous cycling thereupon I guess days and days would no doubt appeal!)
My tips for visiting the Isle of Wight are
GETTING THERE
Assuming you don’t have a boat thereupon you need the ferry. You can get there from Portsmouth (closest) or Southampton. There are fast catamaran crossings for passengers and thereupon the ferry that takes about 200 cars / trucks and takes about an hour. The company is called Red Funnel and they are very organized. The crossing leaves on the hour from Southampton and on the half hour from the island. It is best to book online and print off the pass. You need to reach amidst an hour and half an hour before. They board and get off very much on instance.
The ferry runs more or less every hour and a bit less after midnight and out of season. The ferry has a self help restaurant and coffee station. Sitting outside gets you great views of the yachts.
GETTING AROUND
There is a comprehensive bus service all by the island, but best left to locals as you really need a car of there. The roads are only 2 lanes (one each side) and rambling, but easy to find your way around whether you pick up the free booklets and map the ferry company produces. Of course whether you have SatNav thereupon even easier.
The island is not massive and so you cannot really go wrong. There seems to be masses of speed cameras and signs about speeding, and seems road deaths at 33 in the last 5 years, are high. Too much speed on rambling country style roads. There are a lot of society on tours as mentioned before.
WHAT TO SEE IN A DAY
If you take the 10am ferry and get the 4.30pm back you can cover nearly all the island and that is an ideal trip:
OSBORNE HOUSE
First stop after the Ferry should be Osborne House. that is about a mile or so from where the Ferry docks.
You can probably spend most of a day here whether you wanted to. Osborne House was the home that Queen Victoria spent a lot of date at, and eventually died at. Situated in massive and very beautiful grounds, the house is both impressive and beautiful.
It costs about ten pounds per adult to visit. On arrival you go through a bright and interesting shop to buy tickets. soon after you can walk or catch a horse buggy to the house.
No member of the Royal Family used the house after Queen Victoria died. The house was used as a convalescent home for military and thereupon more recently been renovated and more and more rooms opened. You get to see some fairly private rooms like bedrooms, nursery and sitting rooms. It is full of furniture and ornaments etc. Really fascinating. You can soon after stroll through the magnificently laid out gardens and to various areas right across the property.
There is a restaurant. There are a lot of stairs to be climbed up and down in the house and we saw many a pensioner struggling, so be warned!
BEMBRIDGE
I am biased as that town and my surname are the same, but driving from Osborne House to Bembridge takes you through the more built up part of the island it seems. At Bembridge, as well as some charming shops like bakery and deli, you can plus visit the famous Bembridge Windmill (oldest surviving) and compose out about the sea rescue.
From Bembridge you should thereupon drive either around the coast or through the centre of the island (stopping at one of the pubs for lunch along the way) towards The Needles at Arum Bay in the south west of the island. Both routes get you to see the glorious landscape. whether following the coast you can plus stop at one of the beaches.
THE NEEDLES
Although that is a bit too tourist trap in look, it is worth a visit.
The best part is taking the chair lift down the cliff to the beach. You get great views across the sea to the white cliff needles that jut into the sea. On the beach you can relax. You used to be able to gather the multi coloured sands from the massive cliffs, but that is forbidden due to erosion. whether you are really energetic you can go down the stairs to the beach.
On the top of the cliff are a series of shops like the multi-coloured sand shop where you can fill bottles and shaped glass containers, a sweet factory, a glass shop where you can watch them making vases and glass ornaments, a fun fair and restaurant.
For those into walking there is plus a expanded walk to the Needles.
[Source] Gary Bembridge
daphne tina: Samsung partners with FeliCa for Japanese NFC …
Samsung partners with FeliCa for Japanese NFC solutions, unveils 2012 Olympics' mobile payment app with Visa. Across the globe today, Samsung is bringing a number of pushes to broaden NFC adoption. On the island of …
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