Japan Trip

Here i'm gonna share my itinerary, my recommendation and spoiler of my expenses in Japan.

Let's we start from my itinerary!

Osaka&Kyoto

• Day 1:

• Osaka Castle

• Shinsaibashi/Dotonburi

• Day 2:

• Fushimi Inari Shrine/ Fushimi Inari-Taisha

• Arashiyama Bamboo Grove

Actually day 2 should be Universal time, but because we bought a mistaken ticket, so we cannot make it.

• Day 3:

• Sannenzaka-Ninenzaka Street

• Kiyomizu Temple

• Blue Bottle Coffee

• Shinsaibashi/Dotonburi

Day 3 is October 31st! It's Halloween!

So happy being in Shinsaibashi/Dotonburi when Halloween, it such amazing place. Everybody were using cute costume and looked not serious like usually i saw anywhere in Japan.

There's some people were going down to river!!! from the bridge and everyone around cheered, like a public event with no event organizer.

Tokyo

• Day 4:

• Asakusa Temple

• Nakamise Market Sensoji

• Tokyo Skytree

• Ginza

Tokyo Skytree has really long queue, so i didn't go to the top because i'm too lazy to wait. Waiting several hours queue, only to see the city from the top? "for me" it's not worthy, but just leave me your comment if probably you don't agree with me. Make me regret!

I love Ginza, it's really good place to go. I really love the situation, rather than Shibuya.

Ginza has neat city planning, it's like a mall but outdoor and for me, Shibuya just like usual market that really crowded.

• Day 5:

• Ueno Park

• Odaiba

• Shibuya

• Day 6:

• Disney Land Tokyo

It's my very first Disneyland experience and i'm quite disappointed when i saw the castle was under maintenance. If i know it, i will absolutely postpone my Japan trip. Even i never accept offering to have Hk trip and the only one reason is because i want to wait the castle has been well.

Another thing, I thought Disneyland and Universal have the rides with same excitement level and when i got there, it's so different. I just realized that most of the rides in Disneyland are for children, but my cousin that have ever touched Disneyland Hk said that Disneyland Hk has better rides.

But well, i'm still enjoy it! Thank God finally!

• Day 7:

• Shinjuku

All my route can be made not only because of Gmaps, but also because of many help from Japanese people.

I'm so appreciate for the kind of Japanese people! 9/10 Japanese people, if i asked about route, they always try to help, even maybe their english is not good. Sometimes they looked tired, but they still help anyway.

Btw actually i was in Japan for 11 days, but i spent 2 days in Airplane, 1 day in JR Train (Osaka-Tokyo) and 1 day rest at home.

Btw, before you go to Japan! Here my suggestion to you:

• Planning is so important, so make sure you have the list already before you have arrived there.

• Be careful when you decide to buy Universal/Disney ticket online. I really recommend you to buy the ticket offline aka just go to travel agent and ask everything detail.

• Buy modem that have good connection (mine was myRepublic and it's good) and don't forget to bring power bank, because gmaps is so important!

• Whoever that first time using gmaps for travel, do not forget to learn how to read it!

• If you are going to more than 1 city and the distance is far (Osaka and Kyoto is really near, i mean like Osaka and Tokyo). Just buy JRpass! do not overthinking for that, just buy "all nation" JR pass. It's really useful.

• REALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION for everyone that love shopping! just choose a hotel that near with famous market, like Dotonburi Osaka or Shibuya/Shinjuku Tokyo!

• Do not shopping too much in the first city, just shopping in you last city.

• Bring big luggage is not a big problem, because JRtrain station always has elevator.

• Always check time! do not missed the train because taxi is so expensive!

• If you have 1 modem for 1 group, do not forget to make meeting point to group member, in case there's someone missing, then you know where the place you can find him/her.

• Make sure you have Jenius card! it's really important, because the rate is quite low rather than the other credit card.

• Find a place named DonQ to find anything you want.

• You can bring food and beverage to Disneyland, just put it in your very inside of bag.

• Food in Disneyland is not that expensive, i mean the price is almost same as the food in Japan street/restaurant.

That's it! my story dear diary, i will share about my expenses in Japan in my next post, I can give you a spoiler first, i spent around Rp. 37mio (around 21mio for Shopping, so should be just around 16 if without shopping for 2weeks). For more details information. Stay tune!