Land Of The Rising Sun

Two years since my last trip to Shanghai in 2011, my Dad brought us up to Air Asia X once again to have a brand new holiday journey to Japan. It was a 6 hour flight, way too long but full of adventures and eyeful of beauties on the plane to our destination, the flight attendances were absolutely gorgeous.

The air was chillingly cool when we arrived at Haneda Airport at nearly midnight, the atmosphere was different, I could see how much advance Japan was with just taking a simply look at its airport, clean bright and fast in many aspects such as services, they were so much better than Malaysia. We took another long train ride to Ningyochyo, the night was darker than I expected, the street was silent with only a few 24-hours convenient shops hand their lights turned on.

The walking paths were full of dried maple leaves as they fell off the trees in the Autumn breeze. We walked to our hotel, which had 9 stories and looked great inside even the room space was a little small. Their toilet bowls had a series of buttons which I playfully played with as it was just spectacularly amazing.

This country was totally amazing, the air was so relaxing and frosty while the streets were surprisingly clean and garbage-free, it’s really something I couldn’t experience here, in Malaysia. The Autumn leaves were so beautiful and there were so many awe-inspiring tourists’ spots that I got to visit, like Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Skytree and Mt. Fuji. It was like a surprise for me, a huge one, ‘cuz I wasn’t really expecting something like that. Japan was really awesome! The people there were kind and polite and they always had a smile on their faces, and secretly I wondered, how did there people come and torture us 50 years ago? Did it really make sense?

They said that Japan was where the Sun rose first, and shone its blazing ray over the horizon to the world, really? Well it sounded real, and look at the flag of Japan, it seemed like it wasn’t a legend, it’s true. The time over there was one hour earlier than Malaysia and the sky was a pitch black only at 6pm here. Wondrous, isn’t it?

More blogs about my trip to Japan are coming, stay tunned, you don’t want to miss them! XD

By,
Euan Thum.

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