Japan little story — Chapter 01
Can’t believe 2018 is going to be over and i’m still have a chance to share my travel experience on this year.
After 2 years waiting, finally i got a chance to go to one of my favourite place in the world and i got a cheap tickets (not literally as cheap as in ads) from travel agency. I plan a 9 days trip in 3 cities: Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. So i start planning to book an accommodations, transportations, and attraction tickets.
This is our first trip to Japan and we took 1.5 months for research a great place to hangout, instagram able place and for sure a fantastic food palace.
Long short story the time has come and I only slept for 2 hours. We arrived at Soekarno Airport around 7AM, We used Singapore Airlines to Japan and we need to transit in Changi about 2.5 hours. By the time we are waiting in boarding room, suddenly i didn’t feel well, i sneezed so many times and indicates i will get flu, but i ignore it because sometimes i get allergy in the morning.
When our plane already took off then i feel more unwell which i’m starting not enjoying my meal in plane even though this is a 5 stars airplane. So i’m trying to take a nap for 30 minutes with a glass of wine but still can’t stop sneezing.
Transit In Singapore
Finally after 1 hour and 45 minutes flight we landed in Singapore and we have 1 hours 45 minutes for transit. We thought we still have time to explore Changi airports, perhaps buy some fish chips or popcorn garret. But it’s end up with different story, where we have to run fast to catch flight in different terminal — as we know Changi airport is the best airport in the world, so at the end we only bought a neck pillow for 7 hours flight.
Short story we aboard at 2 PM SGT and i feel better after running in the airport, but a few hour later my nose start to sneeze again more and more and start feel dizzy, even a meal feel bad in my mouth and also a wine taste feel plain and it was end up with medicine and i felt asleep and again it didn’t make me better.
Finally OSAKA
After 7 hours flight finally we landed in Osaka (KIX). We grab our luggage, luckily we didn’t wait too long for it — it was 9.30 PM Japan time. But the hardest part was immigration gate — the queue was so so so long — i wasn’t allow to take a picture there.
For 45 minutes standing in immigration and we are looking for the lawson convenience shop to take a sleep. There is a sleeping area for overnight flight. The sleeping area is quite decent for free but if you need more comfy there is a room to sleep but u need to pay extra. I even didn’t change my cloth or brush my teeth i just drop my luggage then laying on the bench to sleep. The weather was so cold at that night i only use jeans, shirt and jacket. The problem wasn’t the sleeping or the weather, but because i was sick everything feel not comfy.
My girlfriend bought a hot meal from McDonald’s and i put it on my stomach to get warmer :) then after few minutes i feel asleep till morning. I spent my 1st day with illness but still memorable..
Please hang on, the second chapter will release ASAP.
Tips for first traveler to Japan
I believe for some people when they feel excited on something they can’t take an enough sleep, but if you will take a long flight in the next hour especially in early morning please take enough sleep at least 3 hours.
As much as u can, please find a direct flight to Japan from Indonesia or if you are okay about transit flight, please find a longer hour for transit. Why? Because you don’t know if your departure flight will be delayed or not, you don’t know how far your next terminal from arrival terminal. Otherwise you have to run to catch the next flight!
As much as u can please find a flight to Japan which will arrive in the morning not in the middle night. Why? Because there are no more night bus after 10.30PM, so the only available transportation is Taxi which is the price is horrible and you can save your 1st day not in the airport like me and you can sleep at night in the plane.
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