Brand-new hybrid car.

The car I got was a Mazda2, not the model I reserved, with over 70,000 kilometers on it.

Excellent and enthusiastic service

The pick up service from the airport was terrible. I emailed there customer service to let them know my flight arrived after the normal working hours at the terminal checking desk and was told that if I was there by 10pm that was fine. I used there counter phone at 9-20pm to arrange a pick up and they kept using excuses not to come to the airport, saying I had cancelled the booking, my international driving permit was not valid even though they had not seen it and may be I couldn't drive in Japan even though they drive on the same side of the road as Uk. To get a pick up I had to ask a very helpful young man from the adjoining car hire counter to talk on the phone for me. He even photocopied my passport and both driving licences and emailed them to the Times car depot. It took him until 10-15pm to get them to agree to come and collect us from the airport. We had to wait another 30 minutes whilst the airport was closing down for the night. When we got to the depot it took a long time to sort out the paper work and then we were given quite an old car with not much tread on the rear tyres despite the fact I was hiring for over 3 weeks.

Very hard to find location for pickup as had not been given the name of the local agency only a location. Local staff were unable to tell me whether I would need the ETC card for my journey or explain it properly hence we had a lot of problems subsequently using toll roads - an information sheet in English would solve this problem.

The name of the local agency needs to be provided on booking confirmation to help locating easier.