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How to take a bus

There are two types of buses: one type lets passengers board at the front; the other lets them board in the rear door. You need to check in advance which route you should take to go to your destination, since the routes of bus services are complicated. Most bus routes in the 23 wards of Tokyo use a fixed fare regardless of your destination. These type of buses are called "front-boarding" buses. When you take one of these buses, you will board a bus from the front entrance, put the fare into the fare box beside the driver's seat and take a seat.
As the bus reaches near the bus stop to get off, passengers must press the button attached to the wall to tell the driver to stop at the next bus stop. Waiting for the bus to stop, passengers get off from the rear door. Exit when you reach your destination. Busses that operate outside of the 23 wards have you take a ticket when you board toward the rear of the bus. When you get off the bus at your destination, you pay the fare indicated for your ticket on the electric signboard at the front of the bus. This type of buses are called "rear-boarding" buses.

Fare indication

When you take a front-boarding bus, you pay the fixed fare when you board the bus. If you have no coins and need to pay with a bill and get change, you make change at the money-changing machine attached to the fare box and then put the correct fare into the fare box. When you take a rear-boarding bus, you will put the boarding ticket into the fare box along with the fare. It is best to make change while the bus is stopped. [It is best to have change ready before boarding the bus?]
Services operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government offer two kinds of one-day tickets: a ticket (500 yen for adults and 250 yen for children) which allows passengers to get on and off metropolitan buses as many times as they like all day long, and a ticket (700 yen for adults and 350 yen for children) which enables passengers to get on and off metropolitan busses, trains and subways as many times as they like all day long. For further inquiries, contact the metropolitan bus sales offices located at various places in Tokyo, or any of the stations of the Arakawa Line or Toei subways. One-day tickets for immediate use are also sold on metropolitan buses and trains.