Japan trip: Part I - the start

Time: 14.03.2015 - 05.04.2015
So the ones who are following me on facebook know that I had a trip to Japan to visit Yanne. I thought that I might write a bit about it.

The planning started already in September 2014 when I talked with my older sister and friend when we should go (lets call them Chris and Star). The final decision was from the middle of March until the first week of April, because then in Japan will be holidays between school years and Yanne can travel too, in addition Kris and Star can get vacation from work for a bit longer and I have one week holidays from university so I would not miss out much.

how to save money for Japan? not the fastest way..

Anyways here is the short over view how things went before getting on the plane with some money calculations in euro or yen..

September 2014 - bought both-way plane tickets (~600 euro)
February 2015 - bought both-way plane tickets to Okinawa (~113 euro) because why not??
2 weeks before - making final plans - Yanne went crazy with planning, so in the end I printed out 30 pages..
1 day before - packed my bag because my personal life took too much time to have time to pack.
Morning of 14.03 - arrived home around 9am because personal life is great and sleep is overrated (Not true!), so I put final things into bag, waited mom to arrive (she was basically keeping an eye on apartment for some time) and went to airport to have my flight at 15:10. The flight was Tallinn-Paris and then Paris-Tokyo for 11,5 hours. In Paris airport I found out that in Tallinn they made a small mistake and my tickets between Paris-Tokyo where almost cancelled. Thank Gyoza that we had time in Paris so they could fix it.

Finally at 23:35 the plane took off and I was flying toward the country of my dreams :)
I have a bad/awesome habit that on plane (and bus) I fall a sleep really easily, so I ended up sleeping in total 7 hours and from 4,5 hours that I was awake 2 hours I spent watching "Tazza 2 ~ Hidden card" ( TOP is soooo amazing - review coming when I am back from trip) and 1 hour on eating as we were given food twice.

So when we reached Haneda airport the time was around 20:00 on 15.04.15  and after almost half year I was seeing face to face my little sis again - yeah.. some tears were shred..

So we went on and found our hostel (around 16 euro) and as it turned out to be one of the greatest backpackers place we ended up staying there for another night, but about that in next post ;)

Greetings from Okinawa :P