Just came back from my japan trip few days ago...will get back to my gym routine tmr...
must work harder!!!
I don't think i will be blogging my trip by day but in category...
will try to be as specific as possible with the directions...*fingers crossed*
but first thing first..this post will be about hiccups...
why hiccups? keep reading...
if you've followed me on fb you would hv notice that i didn't make it on my original flight...
and it's not because I was late...
and you will know that 6 of us travelled to Tokyo in 3 different airlines..==
confused? you bet...
While we were checking in at LCCT, we've only realized that 4 out of 6 passports need visas!
FOL i know!
Only the new passports with the weird chip logo on the front can go to Japan without a Visa...==
when the newspaper came out with the news of revoking the need of visa to go to Japan they didn't state about this...only when you log in to the Japanese embassy website, you'll see them state about this...
but on the website it says "advised" not "obliged"...
even when the japan embassy ppl called airasia's officer regarding this matter saying that they will get us all arrival visas in tokyo, airasia still did not let us check in...DAMN YOU AIRASIA...
ok, i know it's partly our fault for not doing such in depth research but having to fork out so much money for another ticket is just mindfucking...
in the end, my mom and Macy took off first..but because of all the arguing and the hassles, they were late to check in their baggage and hence they went off without their baggage and the rest of us took their baggages with us on our " amazing race " ...
i can't disclose some details on my blog but we've eventually settled everything like walking on cables...phew
what i can say is that something happened when we were buying our new air tickets...
we've initially wanted to buy in four but it turned out to be much more expensive than buying individually so we'd bought our tickets one by one...
after buying 3 tickets through Malaysia Airlines...they'd decided to sell out ==
end up we had to buy the fourth ticket through Japan Airlines...Thus, 6 person flying through 3 airlines ==
after that horrendous few hours, we've finally board on our flight and landed safely at Narita airport...
From Narita airport to our hotel - Shinjuku Washington Hotel
we've took the metro (Kesei Line) then switched at Nippori to JR Yamanote Line until Shinjuku Station..This is the cheapest way to get from Narita to Shinjuku ( about 1200+ yen )
If you don't mind paying more for comfort, then you can always opt for the coach which is about 3000yen which stops at certain main hotels including Shinjuku Washington Hotel
If you're getting to shinjuku from Haneda Airport ( where airasia lands) the coach only coast about 1200 yen per trip...
if you rather take the monorail then change to JR yamanote line at hamamatsucho station to Shinjuku
waiting for the train~
damn clean ok?
at Nippori station waiting for our train to shinjuku
finally at the hotel~
Hotel costs us about RM180 per person per night
the size of the room is quite small but manageable and pretty reasonable since we're in the centre of tokyo...
the only problem is that most of the staffs can't speak proper english and it's always a pain to communicate...but overall Japanese are really really well mannered~!
Sorry for such a wordy post, the next one will be more picture oriented...i promise...
I will categorize it into - shopping, food, disneysea etc
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