[janita]

Hi,

we will drive in japan from 18 september till 30 september.
I have a few questions

1) is it really only 80 km/h at the highways and 40km/h at smaller ones? And does people really do so or does most people drive faster? Will the police control our speed?

2) where can i see how much the fees are on the highways?

3) as i'm from belgium, my international drive license isn't good enough for Japan. So the JAF need to translate my document in japanese. My ambassade told me they do it rather quickly (max 24h) but i was wondering if this is really 24h or they do it at the exact moment and 30min later we can leave that place and drive eligable.

4) google maps is giving some time how long to drive, is this more or less correct or is there a lot of traffic jam in Japan? Are there some times we better avoid it?

We are not planning to really drive in the big cities. We want to hire a car in Tokyo and return it in Tokyo but these are the only moments driving in Tokyo. Besides that we will be some days in Kyoto, but will only drive to our hotel and back to the road (so not to visit something inside kyoto). We'll visit a lot of other places ofcourse, but this are the only big cities we will do.

Thanks for answering.