Japan Updates (5/4/2011)

R&C Hawaii Tours sincerely send our sympathy to everyone affected by the Japan earthquake, and also to their families and friends.

We continue to give our support to the people of Japan as they rebuild in the affected areas. We are in constant communication with our colleagues as well as many of our vendors living in Japan, who have been providing us with updates regarding situations there. Therefore, we would like to share some of that information with our customers.

1. Travel restrictions: As of 14 April, 2011 - U.S. Department of State has reduced the travel alert to Japan only to the 50 miles radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which excludes major cities such as Tokyo and Yokohama, and Tokyo�fs Narita and Haneda airports
2. Tokyo area: Most of Tokyo area are returning back to normal and no longer have periodical blackouts. Food and water supplies are also back to normal without any problem of shortages. Many popular sites in Tokyo, including Tokyo Disneyland, are now open again with normal business operations.
3. Rail System and Public Transportation. The transportation systems in Japan have recovered to their normal regular service, with the exception to the tsunami affected areas.
4. Other Japan Regions: Majority of the regions in Japan, including popular leisure travel destinations such as Osaka, Kyoto, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Nagoya and Okinawa, are outside of the areas affected by the earthquake, tsunami and radiation. These regions have no disruptions to their infrastructures and everything continues to operate as usual.