JAPAN TRIP: Don't Forget Travel & Health Insurance Coverage! Here's Why

00:00 Travel Insurance for Japan
00:20 What is travel insurance?
00:55 Why travel insurance for Japan?
01:56 Medical insurance vs travel benefits
02:46 Our travel insurance
03:00 SafetyWing Nomad Insurance
05:20 What is covered by SafetyWing?
10:28 Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card
13:35 Have a safe and wonderful trip to Japan!

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Aloha! We are a worldschooling family with three young kids. Our home base is the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. We've been living a nomadic lifestyle for the past 15 years. We hope to inspire you to begin your own quest!

[cyberxspeed]

Capital One is my card of choice since it doesn't have foreign transaction fees.

[racheldorsay]

This is super helpful! Thanks for sharing!

[ericeandco]

Even if you have international medical through your insurance is impossible to get the hospital to contact your carrier so they can direct bill. You have to pay it in yen or on a credit card. That’s fine for something minor but if you end up admitted to the hospital for something major you’re in trouble.

[ExNihiloComesNothing]

I may have to check out safetywing for my upcoming trip to Japan. I have gone through World Nomad before.
I don’t have trip coverage from my card so that is something I’m looking at.
As always thanks for the informative video! Love your channel❤

[FeHopeCyndiW]

Wow. Surprised they covered coming back home with Covid. My family and I had a pretty expensive travel insurance policy and were in Belize to start a vacation. The Belize government announced that they were closing all the borders in a few hours and that all foreigners should return home. We had no idea when we would be able to get back home/ when Belize would reopen its borders, so even though we had arrived just a few hours earlier, we bought a return ticket and had to turn around and fly back home. Super sad! We had rented a private island and it should have been the trip of a lifetime. (It turned out to be a good call because Belize remained closed for many months and my husband had chemo infusions every 2 weeks.) Our travel insurance company (a different one, but a well-known one) said they don't cover a pandemic and never paid us a dime.

[TheProjectMaximus]

How do you benefit from Chase travel protections? They only apply to trips of five days up to 60 days according to the terms and conditions. I’ve never sought out a precise explanation from Chase, but I kinda assumed they would judge a trip starting date to be based on when I left my credit card zip code. So I always assumed this sadly wouldn’t cover expats and long term nomads.

I do know they also have a requirement for a trip to be at least 100 miles away from home, and customer service told me that was based on the zip code of the card.

[AP-qtln]

I've been watching all of your Japan videos and loving each of them! Bummer that I am not able to purchase travel med insurance from saftey wing because I reside in Florida. Any suggestions for other reputable companies I may try?

[RobButcher-eh]

Can you tell me if we can use a Suica card to purchase tickets for the bullet trains from Hiroshima to Kyoto to Tokyo?

[coffeelatte]

Hi, would you recommend purchasing travel insurance at a Japanese airport? I preferred to have an insurance company that works directly with the Japanese hospitals and pay the cost upfront, and found Tokio Marine’s TOKIO OMOTENASHI POLICY offers that coverage for foreigners. However, I can find much reviews on it. Thank you in advance for your advised.

[nvreyes]

Have you ever had the need to file for claims with Safetywing for any covered medical emergencies? Reddit and other review sites seem to have the same theme, easy to sign up for but once you actually need to file a claim, you have to fight it and Safetywing doesn't actually pay the claims. Just wondering if you ever had to file your claims before.

[TheMarq]

What's the place shown in the b-roll at timestamp 4:58?

[ParaSF]

Sorry for the late message on this video. But in October, me and my wife and sister in law are visiting Japan for 2 weeks. Me and my wife are living in the United Kingdom, London to be precise. And she is in possession of a Indian passport, and I’m having a Dutch passport. I know that she needs a international travel insurance, but I also heard that is better for me to have a travel insurance as well. What do you guys think, shall I take one or not? As my passport is amongst the most powerful in the world, and healthcare in UK is free?

[MinPDLandlord]

So you have a recommended travel insurance for short term stays? Like 1-2 weeks?