16 Days in Japan - A Lengthy Summary

12/09/2016 11:47:00 PM by Jin ♡ 0 Comments A⁺ a^-

I've been disappearing for months because I was travelling abroad. I was in Taiwan with my family during October (and since it's a family trip I don't wish to share about it here). From the end of November until early December, I've been travelling solo to Japan and I'm writing my experience here.

I'll take some time to write about the details of each day across several posts because I was in Japan for 16 days, including the day of arrival and departure from Japan.

For my trip, I've spent quite an amount of money because I bought my flight tickets at the very last minute (which I would not suggest people to do so if they plan to save money) but I did it to get away from the stress that has been piling up throughout university and to the fact that I finally got myself away from the mental tortures, it's time for me to fly off from my home country before I start to work.

So, here I am, in Japan!

It's also sad to say that a majority of my photo files are corrupted and could never be opened again in my phone or laptop so I don't have much images or videos that I could share, I'm really sorry.

As for my trip, including shopping spree, I could not remember the exact figure, but I used about 220k JPY. The breakdown is as follow:

Flight tickets: About 57,000 JPY
Night bus from Tokyo to Nagoya: 4,550 yen
Day bus from Nagoya to Kyoto: A little less than 2,600 yen,
PASMO card purchase: 3,000 yen

Topped up another 5.5k yen

Most of the credit in my PASMO are used in Tokyo and Osaka
Kintetsu express to and from Nara (from Osaka): Around 1,100 yen
A few times in convenience stores: Around 600 yen in total lol
Vending machines (I swear, Japan is so convenient!) about 400 yen
600 yen wasted on my way to Fushimi Inari from Yamashina because there was a communication error between me and the bus driver OTL

Accommodation was slightly lesser than 37,000 JPY via Airbnb

The cost is an estimation because I paid them in MYR (Malaysian Ringgit) and USD (US Dollar) so there might be slight differences in conversions
The cost is for 14 nights in Japan (one night in night bus)

The rest of the cost are spent on

Entrance tickets (Too lazy to do the math, will break down in future posts)
Shopping spree (Anime products, cosmetics): Approx. 62,000 JPY
Food: About 8,000 JPY
Omamori and Omikuji

I spent about 1,500 yen on omikuji and 4,000 yen on omamori lol

Daily passes (Kyoto and Osaka):

4 One day bus passes in Kyoto: 4 x 500 yen = 2,000 yen
One day Kyoto + Yamashina and Daigo pass: 1,300 yen
Nagoya Donichi pass: 600 yen
Osaka Amazing Two Day Pass: 3,000 yen

For my trip, I land in Haneda (HND) and depart from Kansai International Airport (KIX).

I spent 3 nights in Ikebukuro (Tokyo), 1 night in Shibuya (Tokyo), 1 night on night bus, 1 night in Nagoya, 4 nights in Kyoto and 5 nights in Osaka.

For one of the days in Tokyo, it snowed and heavily disrupted my plan because I grew up in a tropical country and going out when it's snowing is just not my thing. I planned to go to Asakusa and Akihabara, but I ended up going only Akihabara on that day after the snow stopped.

In Japan, I went to these cities: