[Fushimi Inari Taisha] Budget Journey to the Land of The Rising Sun, Japan. Day: 4 – Kyoto

I was always excited to face another morning in Japan, I woke up without any hesitation and even before the alarm rang. I checked my blister from yesterday snow storm, and it got better. Suddenly, i remembered yesterday was a blizzard, so i also checked out the street from my window. it was decorated with snow!!! (the kid inside me is literally screaming).

(snow piled up)

We had breakfast at Lawson to save up some time today, my pick was onigiri set and Sakura latte with crushed strawberry from Starbucks. It was dope!! out of the nice line of foods galore, i chose the onigiri set, why? it was convenient and cheaper than one onigiri (lol). 

(there are 2 lawsons nearby my hotel)

Preparation to the Land of The Rising Sun, Japan Part 1: cheap airfare

Hi guys!! It has been such a long time to write again in this blog (sorry). I know, I’ve been neglecting it for God knows how long. I’ll promise, I’ll be sharing some more travel tips. So, Here it is.. (Enjoy)

Japan has always been in my travel list. I know Japan since I was like 5 years old. Back then, I always woke at 6 am to watch the Japanese anime: Doraemon, Sailor Moon, Chibi Maruko Chan, Kobo Chan, Pokemon and many more to be listed down. It just didn’t stop there, I still watch it until now with less frequent i guess. So, to me, Japan never dies.

In 2015, I heard my friends got a cheap return ticket to Tokyo by Airasia, only IDR 3 millions something ($300ish). They told me that before the good parts, you should endure the endless flying time (almost 8 hours of waiting and 7 hours of flying) but it’s Japan we were talking about, I didn’t give a damn to the long waiting time. After had made up my mind, I began my research on the tale of cheap tickets. I focused my point to Airasia and Airasia alone. My friends told me that Airasia had specific discount seasons, and i should be aware when it came out. Finding a discount wasn’t as long and hard as I thought, they did it every week!!! Week by week they had promotions like crazy, this place, that place or this place again with different prices!!

I waited like crazy for the upcoming Japan discount and finally it showed up. The deal with Airasia is even if they said the discount period is within 9 months, you still have to be smart to pick a date, it ain't like every day is as cheap as they said in promotion. So I picked my date and rough destination.