Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!t-newsgw1.odn.ne.jp!nwall.odn.ne.jp!not-for-mail From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Driver licence in Japan Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:56:33 +0900 Organization: DENNOU GEDOU GAKKAI, N. D. D. // FABRICA UTILITATIS Lines: 24 Message-ID: <423AEC21.536741FD@ht.sakura.ne.jp> References: <39vjqcF63j2ooU1@individual.net> <479l3155vbbmvhl7sba9olul7e26vd950s@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eatcf-12p116.ppp15.odn.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwall2.odn.ne.jp 1111157798 65546 211.121.43.116 (18 Mar 2005 14:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@odn.ad.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:56:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [ja] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: ja,en,zh-TW,zh,zh-CN,de,es,ko Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:26122 > >I have to do a 2 hour verbale > >test and a 6 hours driving test and pay some money too. Anybody has > >experience with this and who is right now? Thanks in advance, Guus > > Your girlfriend made a big mistake by calling a BUSINESS instead of > the license examination center. The BUSINESS she called wants to make > money off of you. Have her call the prefectural licensing center > (operated by the police) and get the correct information. 6-hour test is too long. Driving test, even when we Japanese take, will end in just 10 minutes or so. In our case, Regular car learner's license: 1.2 km in the circuit. Regular car class-1 license: 4 km on the road. Regular car class-2 license (for taxi drivers): 6 km on the road 6 hours means that the driving school offered a 6-hour lesson. It is not necessary at all. As Michael suggests, you should contact the police's license center. ======================================================================== (Mr.) IIJIMA Hiromitsu, mailto:delmonta@ht.sakura.ne.jp aka Delmonta http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/