Pitapa

There's a cool thing you can get here called Pitapa that allows you to not worry about buying tickets for the trains and stuff. You post-pay at the end of each month through a credit card. This would be really nice because it means I don't have to worry about finding out how much a ticket will cost and carrying around piles of change or making piles of change by breaking a 1000-yen note to pay the ￥150 to get to Kawaramachi (downtown Kyoto, about a half hour by bicycle, if you know the way).