Konichiwa
Is time! Our long planned Japan trip is finally here! We bought our tickets around Nov 2013 during the Air Asia sales, a couple of return to Osaka. Then we revised our plan, again and again and again, and we got greedy; at the end we decided to both Kansai and Kanto region in 11 days.
During the planning phase, only 2 of us will be travelling, but as times goes, 2 more innocent travellers decided to join us. Revise everything again to take the best advantage of 4 travellers, sharing cost and such. Talking to our host in Japan, liaising with our friend in Tokyo to make sure everything is settle.
Then we were lucky enough to experience the new KLIA 2 just after few days later from the official launch.
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| Snacks booth inside KLIA 2 |
KLIA 2 was huge, and tiring to walk. However the interior design was OK, just some design flaw of being inconvenient. Tons of potential empty spaces being to utilized.
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| Resting bench |
Can you see the design of those chair? It is not design to be slept on! Bad choice of chairs for airport., especially for those who decided to overnight in the airport. Guess KLIA 2 want to make extra profit from their hotel services.
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D7 0532 - Kansai Osaka
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Most of the booth are not open yet, so we were super starved inside the departure hall. Nothing to eat, trying to beat the hunger with water, sweets and games.
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| Booth are empty |
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| Social Network holics |
Depart at 12.15am, and after approximate 6 hours of flight, we have finally reached Kansai Airport - Osaka
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| Welcome to Kansai Airport |
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| Arrival panel |
We were so exciting that we're literally scream and jump and super unsteady.
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| Let's march |
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| Inspection, some tight security there |
They have heat scanner, they interrogate awhile, they randomly scan through your bags. Tight security
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| The lobby |
After the long inspection, we were behind our estimated schedule. Rushing to the post office to get our pre-ordered pocket WiFi for our tech obsession.
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| Luggage |
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| Sent and return parcel pack for the pocket wifi |
After that, we rushed to the JR office to exchange our JR pass for Shinkansen(Bullet Train). For your information, you need to pre-purchase your pass outside Japan via online or matta fair. Then use that form obtained to exchange to a valid ticket in the JR Ticket Office. For more information, please visit http://www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en001.html.
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| JR Ticket Office at Shin-Osaka Station |
May be we were a bit too anxious and rush, the next Train to Shin-Osaka is 30 minutes away from now. So we decided to explore around the station with that spare time.
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| Automated walkway for travellers |
Our destination are the same, to the convenient store! We were famish, need food quick and fast.
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| Lawson |
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| They sell booster packs for TCG in convenient store |
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| FOOD! |
After choosing from the wide selection of foods and snacks, we need to be at the station early just in case as we Malaysian are used to be late, while Japanese don't.
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| Walking back to the station |
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| Hotel in case your flight arrive at midnight |
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| Train Tickets |
Time to board the train to Shin-Osaka, the train we getting on is the Haruka Express to Shin-Osaka.
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| Waiting for the cleaners to clean the train |
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| Onigiri, only 100 yen |
We reserve our stomach for the Bento experience later while on Shinkansen. As for now, just an delicious Onigiri for our Haruka Express ride.
