Saya Tourist Sejati Kota Tokyo Pt.1

*throwback post*

Berapa kali dah pergi Jepun? 

Masuk last year dah 3 kali. 

3 kali ok.

Sampai my parents and friends pun dah bising. Semua tanya tak bosan ke pergi tempat yang sama every year? And I was like, "No. Saya kan balik kampung." 

Lulz.

Hari ni sebenarnya nak cerita pasal ketidak puasan hati bila kadang2 tu terdengar desas desus orang berkata kata bahawasanya bercuti ke Jepun tu mahal gila. Like you'll go bankrupt. 

Oh..bodoh nye.

Buat yang pertama kali pergi, haruslah rasa Jepun tu mahal. Lagi2 kalau pergi dengan package or group tour. I'll list down few reasons what may cause you to think that traveling to Japan are expensive.

1. Tempat baru kan? You barely know the place. Mana nak beli barang murah. Mana nak cari kedai makan murah. So apa je yang nampak depan mata, yang edible, yang 'boleh lah'...grab aje. Kan? In the end, baru terasa yang you paid something at unnecessary price.

2. Kalau follow group tour, ketahuilah bahawasanya tempat2 yang mereka bawa tu tiada yang low budget ok. Tourist attraction kan? Anywhere in the world, kalau dah nama pun tourist attraction, there's no way in hell they will sell souvenirs or whatever at a very cheap price.

3. Halal restaurant. Again, ini pun tempat tourist menepek. Food are usually aren't local food. Bukan japanese food. Most of the time, it's Indian food or Malaysian cuisine or Indonesian. So ingredients semua imported, in the end harga pun mahal. Same goes la kalau kita dekat Malaysia ni, kalau nak makan Japanese food or Korean food, boleh ke dapat harga makanan macam Restoran Pantai Timur Kak Ani, gittew.

4. Everytime nak beli barang, sibuk nak check currency. Ini, seriously? Defuq man? Obviously their currency lagi higher than us kan? Dah kenapa sibuk nak convert2? Tak nak beli jangan beli. As simple as that. Just keep in mind that everything below 1000¥ is considered cheap. Ok?

5. Jangan sibuk compare barang dekat Malaysia dengan barang yang dijual dekat Jepun. In Malaysia, local stuff memang murah. Sebab tenaga buruh kita majority orang2 PATI. Dekat Jepun tiada PATI. So cost pengeluaran tak sama. Sama lah kalau situasi dekat Malaysia kalau jual barang sendiri. Ko hengat pengeluar kek lapis sarawak tu orang PATI ke? Tak. Masak sendiri kat umah. Tapi nak kira kos aku-penat-masak-dah-lah-guna-oven-pakai-letrik-rumah-sendiri. Sebab tu kek lapis yang tak semenggah rasa dia tu pun harga dia mahal. Faham? (btw, brg2 dekat Jepun semua berkualiti ok. Saya berani jamin!)

Cukup lima sebab? 

Faham dah kenapa selalu dengar "Jepun mahal, Jepun mahal"? 

Saya ni dah pergi Jepun 3 kali. Kalau mahal sangat, saya tak kosser la nak repeat trip every year. Sebab saya rasa it's affordable. Sebab tu every year pun buat trip pergi Jepun. 

Mahal? It's affordable lah! Nanti I will share you the tips and trick.


Soalan lazim yang selalu saya terima was, "How much it cost for your trip?" 

"Tiket kapal terbang pergi-balik mahal tak?"

"Duduk mana weh?"

"Nak makan macam mana?"

"Kat sana naik taxi? Jalan kaki? Train? Bus?"

"Toilet dia takde paip kan?"

Yes. These are the few questions that was asked to me gazillion times. Sampai kadang2 tu nak kasi penyepak je sebab semua tu boleh je gugel. Wasting my air liur sungguh tau tak?

To those yang tak tau, I always planned a year ahead for my Tokyo Trip. By planning, I mean, bila nak check for ticket, bila nak beli ticket, bila nak book hotel, where to stay, how to go there, what to do, what to expect and everything else.

Yes.

I plan.

To that extend.

Sebab tu I never felt awkward pun there in Tokyo masa I got there for the very first time. Walaupun terpanik seketika and tersesat pada hari pertama sebab terleka. LOL! You can read all about my first day dekat Japan here.

Do you know that I spend a whole two months in google earth nearly every day to study the roads and streets in Tokyo? LOL

Ok. That, I'll tell you in the next post. Panjang sangat dah entri ni. Later I sambung lagi okeng?

See ya!