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   [[img-residence]]
   .Ooooh shinyyy
  -image::http://youri.discovers.asia/images/settling/residence.jpg[residence]
  +image::settling/residence.jpg[residence]
   
   === Register your address and apply for National Health Insurance
   The first night, I stayed in a hotel together with the other Vulcanus trainees. We got our orientation day the next morning. The Japanese weather was unforgiving: a frying 34°C and a humidity level of imeasurable values. Drenched in sweat I arrived at the Europa house, where the orientation took place. After the presentation, I had to wait for a representative of Fujitsu to pick up the students that will have their internship at Fujitsu Laboratories in Kawasaki.  In total we are 3: Sašo, from Slovenia; Ole from Germany and then there's that Belgian guy. 
  
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  [[img-bic]]
  .Sašo showing which SIMs we considered to choose
  image::http://youri.discovers.asia/images/settling/bic.jpg[]
  
  === Commuter pass 
  From September until December, I will travel 5 days a week to the Naganuma School to learn Japanese. In order to ease my commuting with public transport, I bought a PASMO card. It's an IC card that allows you to charge money on it which you can use to travel around using public transport including trains, metro and buses. It is a must-have if you want to travel using public transport in a comfortable way. Otherwise, you'll have to buy tickets at a counter everytime and this can become complicated if you need to transfer onto lines that are from another company. IC cards work on all the lines. There exist several types of cards and normally it doesn't really matter which one you buy, *UNLESS* you want to charge a commuter pass on it. A commuter pass is a fee you pay to travel between 2 stations on a more regular basis. Therefore, it does matter which IC card you buy, because you are obliged to travel through at least one station of the company from which you bought the IC card. Therefore I had to get a PASMO card specifically, because I can travel to the school using the Tokyu Toyoko Line, which is owned by the Tokyu Coorporation. However, in the airport I bought another IC card, Suica. This card is offered by JR, a train company. Since I do not need to travel using a JR line, I was obliged to get the other IC card. Luckily, I can get a refund on my Suica if I return it to one of the JR stations, but for now I decided to keep it since it is a pretty card with a cute penguin on it. The commuter pass is valid for a month or 3 months. For my own safety I bought a 1-month commuter passes in case I might lose my PASMO card.
  
  [[img-pasmo]]
  .The very convenient PASMO card loaded with my commuter pass
  image::http://youri.discovers.asia/images/settling/pasmo.jpg[PASMO]
  
  === Get Internet in your room, so that you can write long blog posts
  Leopalace21 provides its own Internet sevice to their appartments, which is called LEONET.
  
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  [[img-nhi]]
  .My health insurance card, but some privacy bug removed my address ;)
  image::settling/nhi.jpg[NHI]
  
  === Get a bank account
  The next day, Friday the 2nd of September, the 3 Fujitsu guys went to Shibuya to get a bank account. We chose to go to Shinsei Bank, since they are one of the only banks that offer English services (as already mentioned, you easily get confronted with language barriers when it comes to particular domestic services). We went to the Shibuya office, but got kicked out. We were advised to go to the Head office near Tokyo Station, half an hour from Shibuya, because this office wasn't familiar with dealing with a lot of foreigners at the same time. This was because there were already 2 Vulcanus trainees inside. The Head Office could handle us better...
  