Japan Itenerary (part 1)

Guten morgen..

Today i would like share my itenerary with you guys :)

I went to japan by air asia, we arrived at haneda airport on 11 pm. Our friends pick us up at the airport, then we headed directly to nikko. We arrived at nikko around 2am. what a day, huh ?!

Day 1 - Nikko
In the morning we went to toshogu shrine, waterfall near that area (sorry i didn't remember the name. Was that yutaki or kegon waterfall?!). We had our lunch at udon store near the waterfall. And the udon is really yummy :) after that we went to shinkyo bridge, before headed to tokyo.

In tokyo, we stay at sakura ikebukuro hotel. This hotel is on the yamanote line (JR ikebukuro) and we can reach the hotel on foot because it's quite near. It's a moslem friendly hotel, which is a plus for us.

Day 2 - Hakone

Since we're going to leave kanto and heading to kansai on our 3rd day, we decided to bring along a suitcase with us.

Many bloggers review that JR stations provide lots of lockers. The thing is, most lockers get full really fast. I had to walk around for almost 10 minutes in hakone station, trying to find an empty ones. Luckily my friend saw medium size locker was empty, so that we able to put our luggage there.

ps. I'm not gonna provide you with direction to hakone area. You can google it and find many blog review about it :p

There are some things that i have to remind you. If you are a JR pass holder, you able to access hakone station with your pass. Just buy the 'hakone 2 days pass' from odyaku office in hakone station.

When you reach hakone area, you have 2 option to start your journey:

1st option: heading to gora check point by train, to take the tram.
If you take this option, all you have to do is change the platform

OR

2nd option: heading to moto hakone check point by bus, to take the cruise.

There are many brochures in the station which will reccomend you to take 2nd option. 

Just like any other bloggers, I will suggest you to take the 1st option. 

FYI, 1st option will be more crowded than 2nd option, somehow it's not a big deal anyway since the scenery is more beautiful :)

At that time i completely forgot about that issue, and you know how it ends. I take the 2nd option. I consider my hakone trip is so so. Lets just skip it, lol.

Day 3 & 4 - Osaka

From akihabara we headed to osaka by shinkansen.
(yes, clumsy i know! We got back to tokyo again!) It takes 3 hours to get there. We only stay for a night, so after put our luggage at Osaka Hana Hostel, we went to osaka castle 

(ps. this castle is closed at 5pm >> i hope this info will help you to manage your itinerary).

After that, we headed to dotonbori, baby! Dinner time is comin'. If you have any difficulties to find glicoman, just walk to shinsaibashi gate, you'll find the glicoman easily.

On our 2nd day, we went to shitennoji temple and mitsui park outlet. Shitennoji is ok, but i realized that i prefer shrine to temple. Maybe because of those torii gates and bright orange color.

In mitsui park outlet..our favourite store is nike. 

Man! The price is insanely affordable, way cheaper than nike sale in indo. If you are a nike freak, then you should come.

Ok, for the last 2 cities will be reviewed on the next post. Adios!!