When I walked into the Japanese embassy at 3.00 pm this afternoon, I was astonished to see only two people applying for visas. One was a Malaysian Chinese man holding three passports. The second person was a guy filling up a form in Japanese. There were no runners from travel agencies carrying dozens of passports unlike in December 2009 when I had to wait 3 hours for my turn to hand over my documents, today it only took 5 minutes.
My flight will to Tokyo will be on Saturday, 2 April. I am expecting an near empty airplane.
I will spend one week in Japan in Tokyo and Kanazawa. I wanted to visit Kanazawa back in Dec. 2009 when I spent three weeks in Japan. The main attraction is the well preserved houses and other buildings from the old Edo period. However I could not find the time as I was traveling and spending time in five cities (Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima and Osaka) and Kanazawa is not in the bullet train (Shinkansen) routes.
From Kanazawa, I will fly directly to the second leg of my trip to Seoul . I plan to spend about 16 days in South Korea.
I have bought some essentials for my trip :
- Face mask ; 1 pair in case the level of radiation increases in Tokyo or Kanazawa.
- Six AAA batteries for the blackouts
- Two small LED flash lights
- Two packs of Panadol each with 8 tablets
- Rubber gloves
- Possibly ; 2 x 1.5L bottle of water
- A whistle.
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