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In Japan Tokyo Travel

Another Trip To Japan

(I don't over like this country, do I?)
Ternyata tahun 2013 kemarin belum terpuaskan, tahun ini kembali lagi ke Jepang!!!
Woohooo...

Perjalanan yang lebih singkat 1 hari dibanding 2 tahun lalu, dan perencanaannya lebih random lagi.

Jadi awalnya adalah pembicaraan dengan seorang teman kantor yang baru beberapa bulan pulang bertugas dari negerinya Doraemon itu, how both of us still have a (big, or even bigger) wish to comeback ("comeback" seems not the suitable word for me :D ).
So there was this kinda Garuda Indonesia Travel Fair which is actually an annual event. I never dreamed went to abroad with my own budget with Garuda (expensive? yes it is. Comfy? off course. But I choose budget over comfy).

It was just a fun chit-chat, at least that was I thought, then suddenly on the second day of the fair, my friend call me. I thought, "Well, I'm just gonna go there and be a good friends, wondering around with her. Who knows the next 2-3 hrs we (3 of us, 1 was actually in Surabaya) ended up booked tickets to Japan for the next 2 months trip.

Dengan sedikit drama, akhirnya kartu kreditnya berhasil jebol :D

Modal cuti 3 hari, tanggal 2 Juni pagi kita sudah mendarat di Haneda.
Ohayou Tokyo!!!!! (I'm starting like this sentence)


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Ohayou Tokyo, Hi Hakone!

Or should I say 'nite Tokyo' then go to sleep?!?!

Badannya pegel bukan main... it was the longest flight I've ever had.
Got in Haneda at eleven or so, Tokyo time.

Setelah menjadikan McD tempat nginap, sekarang memilih bandara untuk sensasi terbaru XD

Well, if you arrived in Haneda at midnight and plan to sleep there, go to the 2nd floor, the departure floor for domestic, it's not too noisy there. Pick any chairs that empty, then have a good sleep. If you still wanna look around, go to the 3rd floor, there are some restaurants up there and the view is... great.
Dan seperti bandara internasional Sultan Hasanuddin (iklan dikit), di Haneda juga disediakan shower room, they have it on the 2nd floor, but I don't know how much does it cost, probably JPY1000 or so. The toilet, super duper clean... and oh yeah, unlike in China, you'll will always like to visit a big-building's (shopping, station, big book store, etc) toilet just to compare the tech that they use, well I did XD
Because even the smallest restaurants are using tech in their toilet.

So after having a quite nice sleep and satisfying free wi-fi, we really need to get up before more people showed up.
'Jangan naik kereta di jam-jam sibuk', jadi jam 6 pagi mulailah kita heboh cari mesin buat beli tiket kereta. Tujuannya: Hakone. Diputuskan semalam sebelum ketiduran, padahal tadinya niat ke Hostel dulu, well karena Hakone-nya lebih dekat, demi menghemat transport, jadilah kita ke Hakone. Agak hectic juga pas mau beli tiket, secara baru liat mesinnya pertama kali *doh gaptek banget sih dan masih harus mencari-cari connecting station-nya dimana lewat internet (Wi-fi gratisan tidak tersebar secara menyeluruh di Jepang dan sebagai orang yang hanya punya visa 15 hari, tidak memungkinkan untuk punya nomor sana trus dipakai berinternet ria. Well, bisa sih sewa Mi-Fi).

And voila, dari Haneda naik kereta Kekyu Line, this was my first expense, for train JPY440 (tolong jangan dirupiahkan). Seharga itu baru setengah jalan, tepatnya sampai di Yokohama Rail Station, di Yokohama, pindah jalur untuk ke Odawara. Yup beli tiket lagi dunk. Nungguin di kereta di peron 6 yang agak lega sementara peron seberang rame banget dan kita-kita pede-pede aja belum ada yang mandi. Mikirnya stasiun Odara itu lebih kecil dari Yokohama eh ternyata…
Di Odawara nitip barang bawaan di mas-mas loker. Sepertinya hampir di semua stasiun di Jepang itu pasti tersedia loker, won't hard to find, but it will hard to find an available one. Pernah kita keluar-masuk mengelilingi stasiun cuma buat nyari loker kosong, and it takes time ._.

So far sudah liat 3 ukuran loker dan rupa-rupa harganya. Mulai dari JPY300 - JPY500. Ukuran JPY500 itu muat koper kabin lho.. *owh I'm starting to like this city.

Ganti jalur ke Hakone Tozan Railway setelah beli Hakone free pass (tiketnya bisa dipakai 2 hari, agak sayang juga sih secara harus ngeluarin JPY3900 dan hanya akan terpakai 1 hari, I wish they could gave me half price for one day pass). Oh iya dengan free pass ini, bebas naik semua transportasi di wilayah Hakone. Begitu sampan di Hakone Yumoto, ganti kereta lagi kitaaaa... Berharap bisa liat Gunung Fuji yang terkenal itu dan daun-daun yang mulai berubah warna… krikkrikkrik… cuacanya tidak mendukung dannnnn ntah kenapa katanya tahun ini musim seminya telat datang :((

Akhirnya memutuskan untuk berhenti dimana saja yang terlihat menarik… karena begitu banyak tempat, tidak akan mungkin selesai dikunjungi dalam sehari, first stop in Hakone-machi: Choukoku-no-mori Station, 2 minutes walking to Hakone Open-Air Museum. My sister doesn't like museum… but she liked this one very much. Hmm, jadi kalau sudah punya free pass, beli tiket masuk disini bayar JPY1400 (normal price JPY1600) *iya bayar lagi. Disini hampir setengah hari, and my most favorite spots are… that colorful Woods of Net yang bikin iri karena cuma anak-anak yang boleh main disini (while actually my weight is allowed me to play along there) dan Hot Spring Foot-bath!!! Ahh it felt so good after walking for hours… (kakinya mandi duluan yaaa).

Dari flyer yang kita dapat, bisa disimpulkan kalau di Hakone banyak onsen-nya... My sister like that, me? Na-ah. But we my sister didn't try it there.

Setelah dari Open-Air Museum bingung mau kemana, I thought we spend too much time there, dan akhirnya memutuskan langsung saja ke Gora (if I'm not mistaken).
Trying the Hakone Rōpuwei, yeeeyyy. Yah I wasn't that excited since I little bit hate height.
And yeay!!! (ini beneran yeay) tidak seperti di Ngong Ping, dasar ropeway disini nggak tembus pandang. Why used ropeway while I'm not like it that much? Because we can see Mount Fuji from up there, which we didn't see because the weather. And it's the fastest way to end this trip.

Kecapean!!! Ujung dari petualangan ropeway ini berakhir di Danau Ashi. Sebenarnya bisa makan siang disini, pas banget lagi kelaparan. Tapi begitu melihat antrian buat Sightseeing Cruise-nya... akhirnya langsung ngikut ngantri. Kapalnya cocok banget buat dipakai foto-foto, sayang terlalu ramai and it was so windy, we got cold. Tapi pemandangannya bagus, andai nggak terlalu berangin mungkin agak bisa menikmati.

And that's it, Hakone trip ends there, back to station with bus.
Jadi ya, hari pertama sempat shock karena yen-nya langsung habis banyak begitu balik dari Hakone.

Hostels... here we come.

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Running for Tokyo!!!

Kenapa judulnya pakai kata "running"?
Nooo, bukan nyontek Running Man... Yap karena ngumpul dana ke one of the most expensive city in the world ini sampai ngos-ngosan dan mengurus semua keperluan juga hampir nggak sempat.
Bahkan sudah sampai di kotanya pun masih berasa ngos-ngosan (I'll tell you why on the next posting).
This trip was planned quite in a rush. I was bought the ticket for my sis, and I got a little bit jealous that she can go wherever she want and I feel kinda stuck in here.
"Why don't I go there too!?!!"
A few days later I bought the ticket for myself *legaaa~~~
Hitungannya pas cuti bersama bisa keluar agak lama, kerjaan lagi nggak banyak (I really thought I won't have jobs left when I go), so lets make this one of my junior-high-dream come true.
Yatta!!!
Buat paspor cuma butuh 4 hari kerja, lanjut buat visa 4 hari kerja juga.
Awalnya sempat khawatir nggak bakal dapat visa karena paspor hijaunya masih perawan, buat itinerary juga hasil nyontek (I even didn't remember what I wrote) and I'm not sure if I have enough savings to convince the embassy that I'll survive there for a week. But hey, the embassy even gave me a 15-days-visa.
But something always could happened right after when the things look so perfect. A month before I leave until the D day, I still haven't got any real itinerary, no knowledge about what am I going to take from the airport, where will I go on the first day and so on, a big thanks then for my sis for make sure I will have a place for spend the night while I'm in the Tokyo.
H-2 pun belum pegang yen, belum beliin JRP buat kakak, belum packing, lupa kalau hanya punya alas kaki buat ke kantor, kerjaan kok ya jadi numpuk di kantor (bahkan harus meninggalkan tim yang masih lembur di hari Sabtu sementara saya akan jalan-jalan di Akihabara), lupa beli keperluan pribadi buat dibawa kesana and I even forgot that my flight to KL is 8.30 in the morning, which it means that I have to be  in Gambir at least at 6 o'clock, while I wasn't have a very good sleep for the past 2 weeks and the flight will be my first. How silly is that sound?

So D-1 I went to money changer during the break and somehow managed to got the JRP on the same day.



Kinda blessfull that I could woke up at the right time on the D day, got in the airport before the plane flew without me (in fact the flight was delayed for 30 minutes and all I can think was, it would be nice if I could sleep 30 minutes longer this morning), had a fully charged phone and also a fully charged power bank, but not having breakfast, forgot to order meal for the trip and only had a cup of shin ramyun on the plane was a huge mistake.

About 11 hours or so before I say "Tadaima!!!!!!"
*Pertanyaan: kapan saya perginya????
wkwkwkwk.

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