First Section: Ticket, Airbnb & Transport
1.
Ticket
“Be
patient” is the best tips I can give you this time. Since, be patient is the
key in this first topic. You know the story behind this trip, and because I can’t
be patient, I made a mistake and a little bit regret about it. Second tips is to
find the best time travelling for you, so that you can enjoy the trip at most. Third
tips is, if you love to shop make sure you buy a flight that already include
baggage, so that you don’t have problem later in the airport.
So,
after my brother asked me to join him, I immediately search the ticket that
match he and his friends flight, at that time (almost 2 weeks waiting and
searching) I only find two options of flight which has the best price and best
time travelling for me, even though for me, the price is still too expensive and
not beneficial. The options is between Cathay Pacific(must transit in Hongkong)
or Filipine Airlines(must transit in Filipine), this 2 options has the most
valuabe price at that time and match the time my brother and his friend flight,
even though the transit time is made me stress. It offers me around 6,3 million
Rupiah include for departing and returning to Indonesia. The truth is, I wants
JAL / ANA Airlines so bad, so that I don’t need to transit somewhere, it’ll be
more easier for me since I travel alone this time. But at that time the price
for ANA / JAL is to expensive around 8 million rupiah.
At
the end I decided to travel with Cathay Pacific with 6,3 million Rupiah to
Hongkong and have to transit for like 10 hours in there. Why? Because I think at
least I can hangout in Hongkong for a while with my friend (special thanks to
my friend Dennis which still in Hongkong for Internship). But lucky for me for
the returning from Japan to Indonesia, I only have to transit in Hongkong about
like 2 hours only, I can not imagine if I have to transit more than that.
After
I booked the ticket, like 2 weeks after, I randomly and curiously checking the
ticket price for the same day I will go to Japan. And you GUESS WHAT?!?!?!? The
most cheap ticket for that day is JAL airlines with only 4,5 million Rupiah (crying
so deep right now). Oh my Goshhhhhhhh, I shock and feeling like how did this
can happen. And back then again, I simply notice it’s all because I can not be
patient for searching the ticket. In my deep deep heart I regret it so much,
and krayyyyyyy…. If I can be patient, I can go to Japan without having to
transit for such a long time and at least I can use the gap price of the ticket
to pay the rent for Airbnb. So guys, the lesson in this time is, be patient!
2.
Airbnb
At first,
the trip is including 5 people to go, which is me, my brother and his friend. So
we decided to book Airbnb instead of Hotel. Together we pick the Airbnb, of
course the most valuable price and the distance from and to the city, and little
spacious apartment because we are a group. We think that it’ll be easier for us.
Together
we decided to book the apartment in Matsudo-shi area. In the details said that
nearest train station is 10 minutes to walk. TIPS!! don’t you ever think
that 10 mins in the details is near/not far. Because in the reality it is so
far and tiring, since we have to bring our own heavy luggage. So you need to
make sure and check the distance between your place and the train station. Especially
if trains is your transportation option.
We
booked this apartment for 12 million Rupiah for 7 night of stay. Of course we
divide it into five (around 2,4 million/person) since we are all 5 persons (at
first), but suddenly one of my brother friend cancelled the trip without any clear
reason, and she didn’t pay the rent we book together in the first time, so we
have to pay extra for her part (3 million/person).
There
are also another cheap stay options for you is Hostel (it offers you around
300-700 hundred Rupiah/night), I recommend you if you are a group not a family,
because mostly hostel only have shared bathroom and shared room to sleep. And because
Japan is very clean, you don’t have to worry. Even public toilet in Japan are
so neat and clean. So, Hostel can be your another option in here if you’re on
low budget.
3.
Transportation
In
this trip, we all decided to focus & enjoy in Tokyo area, and not going to
Osaka. Because we think that 7 days is too hectic and tiring for us to go here
and there. Another reason is because shinkansen (fast train in Japan) is too
expensive around 4million/person, the ticket price for shinkanses is same with
the promo ticket for round-flight ticket to Japan. We think it’ll more easier and
comfort for us to have another trip to Osaka later and focus to Osaka area like
we did this time. And for the result I really love this idea, because we don’t have
to tiredly move our luggage everywhere by ourself, since Japan taxi is too
expensive for us.
So we
only buy JR-East Nigano-Niigata and Suica (kind of easy card that you can use to
buy anything in Japan). The reason why we buy JR-east Nigano-Niigata is because
at first we wanted to try Shinkansen, and this JR-East offer us a shinkansen to
back and forth to Ashikagara Flower Park, one of our destination. It’s also
beneficial because we can use it 5 randomly days that we pick from 7 days of
use for Tokyo area, it also give us free NEX Narita train ( Airport train ), and
the rest 3 days that JR-East didn’t cover up, I used Suica for it.
For the
transportation, it depends on our destination place, we have to be smart to
combine transportation options in Japan, search it first before you go to Japan.
I used only GOOGLE MAPS in here, because it already give us all the
details, like the time, the name of the trains, etc.
Here the link for which area and station that
JR-East cover and do not cover.
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