The most popular SUV models offered at rental locations in Kumamoto are: Toyota Rav4, Kia Sportage, Jeep Wrangler, Suzuki Jimny, Toyota Landcruiser, Toyota Fortuner and others.
While selecting your preferred model of an off-road vehicle, please examine the rental conditions. In particular, those requirements that concern credit cards – when it comes to renting an expensive car, sometimes offices in Japan ask information about two credit cards.
Before signing the contract in the rental office upon arrival, check that the invoice figures match with figures in your voucher.
Once the vehicle is assigned, inspect it carefully before leaving the parking. Crossovers and SUVs are often used in tough road conditions, therefore scratches and other exteriour defects are inevitable. Due to this, it is important to check and specify all existing defects in your rental documents.
If you plan to use an off-road vehicle in the mountains, it is recommended to order snow chains. This will save you from unexpected incidents. Other important equipment in Japan are mandatory child seats for travellers with children.
OrangeSmile.com wishes you a safe trip and green lights on the roads of Kumamoto!
Common questions on rental process
On city roads the maximum distance between traffic lights is 100 meters, and on some roads they are installed every 50 meters. Surprisingly, such a number of traffic lights don’t contribute to the formation of traffic jams. On the contrary, thanks to them the traffic becomes very well-organized.
A huge number of traffic lights is also a great way to make all drivers follow the speed limit. Japanese drivers are already well-disciplined, but such frequent traffic lights at intersections completely eliminate the possibility of breaking the speed limit.
Taking into consideration all of the above mentioned features and the fact that the majority of roads in large cities are quite narrow, the absence of heavy traffic jams on highways seems almost paradoxical. During "rush hours" the traffic on busy city roads is really slow, but comparing to other multimillion cities, traffic jams in Japan seem a mere trifle.
