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Preface#

Last year, when I was in the second year of junior high school, I wanted to go to Japan for a vacation. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I couldn't make it.

This year, after graduating from junior high school, I didn't have any homework or online classes during the vacation, so I thought, "Can I go to Japan as a graduation trip?"

Coincidentally, there was an international conference that invited my parents to Japan, so I decided to go with them!

This time, I will stay in Japan for a total of 3 days, but:

• We will take a morning flight to Japan (which means we will have one afternoon in Japan).
• We will take an afternoon flight back to our country (which means we will have another morning in Japan).

Including the two half-days, it adds up to 4 days.

Originally, I made plans, but I realized that it was meaningless because I had to complete various procedures at the airport.

Next, let me talk about the experience in chronological order.

Day -1 (July 6th)#

Packing luggage and making a travel plan.

Some friends are going with us. They often say, "You can get a Suica card..." but I didn't understand it at first. Later, I found out that it is the Suica card that I saw.

We will depart tomorrow morning, and I am so excited that I can't sleep well at night. Well, to be honest, it's not that I can't sleep. We have to go to the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, and I finally fell asleep around 12 o'clock midnight. In fact, I only slept for about 4 hours according to my watch.

Day 0 (July 7th)#

Early in the morning, I posted a message on my QQ space and shared this song.

I am very grateful to those friends who didn't know about my trip but still liked the post.

At the airport, I looked for the check-in counter and spent about 40 minutes completing the check-in process.

They asked me if I needed to check in my luggage, and I answered, "No." My suitcase was actually empty because I prepared it in case I bought too many things in Japan and couldn't bring them back. So it's more convenient to bring it on the plane.

I looked for the airport's Wi-Fi and found one labeled "Airport," but I couldn't connect to the internet after connecting to it. So I immediately disconnected to prevent it from eavesdropping on my data.

Later, I saw free Wi-Fi information on a pillar. It turned out that I didn't connect to the wrong Wi-Fi. I just needed to "register with real name" and bind a mobile phone number.

After going through customs, I found the boarding gate and put on my headphones to listen to music.

Some people may wonder why all the songs are sung by Rhodanthe*. Well, there's no reason. I just randomly clicked on them.

When boarding the plane, I took off my headphones and put them in the empty suitcase. This is a decision I regretted: the noise during takeoff was loud, and I thought it would only be noisy during takeoff, but it turned out to be noisy for another half an hour, which made my ears hurt.

So I had to take out the headphones from my suitcase and turn on the noise cancellation. It got better. I blame myself for not having flown for a long time.

After breakfast, I originally wanted to see if I could find Mount Fuji. But after checking the flight route on my phone, I realized that Mount Fuji was on the left side of the plane, and I was assigned to the right side by the window, so I could only see the vast sea.

When we arrived at Tokyo Narita Airport, we went through the procedures and obtained Suica cards, then took the subway to the hotel. However, Narita Airport is a bit far from Tokyo, so we took the subway for about an hour. What's worse is that the subway was almost full, so I had to stand for over an hour. By the time we arrived at the hotel, my legs were already sore.

Today is the Tanabata Festival in Japan, and almost everyone on the street is wearing perfume.

Unfortunately, it was already around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was getting dark, so after having dinner with my friends outside, we went straight to rest. By the way, why did we choose an izakaya (Japanese pub)...

Day 1 (July 8th)#

We definitely went to Akihabara to see manga merchandise first. Even before arriving, I could feel the strong atmosphere of the otaku culture.

I heard that Akihabara Station is full of anime advertisements, but unfortunately, there were no posters in the Ginza Line subway that I took.

I took a look at the so-called "Genshin Street," and now it has become a deserted area with no posters left except for the "Genshin" advertisement on the upper floor in the distance (and I heard that this advertisement has been hanging there since the game was launched).

I went to Animate and bought more than 20 manga. I originally wanted to go to Book Off, but then I realized it wasn't necessary.

In the afternoon, we went on a pilgrimage to the sacred places of the anime "Kodoku Rock." We set off and went to Shimokitazawa. Then we followed the pre-designed route and walked slowly.

There was one time when we took the wrong subway. After going around in circles, we ended up too far from the hotel, so we chose to take the JR train back to the hotel.

Fortunately, Suica can be used everywhere.

Day 2 (July 9th)#

In the morning, my parents went to Akihabara to look at electronic devices, while I stayed in the hotel and checked the itinerary for the afternoon. In the afternoon, we went to Chiba Prefecture next door for a pilgrimage to the sacred places of the anime "Golden Puzzle."

We took the train and left Tokyo. It was obviously much quieter. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't very good, and it was about to rain, making it very humid.

We walked through small roads and suddenly found that there were no mosquitoes. I checked the internet and found out that Japan has specific measures to prevent mosquito outbreaks?

There were very few mosquitoes, and I was wearing short sleeves without a single bite.

When we returned to the hotel, we took a bus. ||I forgot to swipe my Suica card when boarding the bus, but fortunately, the bus driver manually entered the fare for me. I am really grateful for that.||

Day 3 (July 10th)#

In the morning, we went to Senso-ji Temple and Tokyo Skytree. ||Great!||

On the way, we stopped by Akihabara to buy some manga and merchandise. I saw a mini-album of a disbanded band, but since I had already listened to the digital version and the physical album was expensive, I didn't buy it.

In the evening, I watched the late-night anime "Airi, the Classmate Who Occasionally Covers Herself in Russian." Coincidentally, the program before it on TOKYO MX was "My Favorite Child," so I watched a complete episode of it as well to get to know the series.

Day 4 (July 11th)#

Return to our country. There were significant delays at Narita Airport. The original plan was to depart at 13:00, but the plane didn't arrive at Narita Airport until 12:07 (because it was raining in Nanjing), causing a delay of over an hour.

I posted a status saying "じゃあね、日本" (see you, Japan) on social media. Originally, I was going to post the more formal "さようなら、日本" (goodbye, Japan), but I felt that the implied "farewell" was not auspicious, as if I had dropped an atomic bomb and shouted:

||Ahahaha, eat this atomic bomb! Farewell, Japan!||

So I changed it to "じゃあ" (see you).

Finally, it was our turn to board the plane. This time, I knew to bring my headphones on the plane.

According to the flight route, I should have been able to see Mount Fuji and Jeju Island in South Korea, but unfortunately, due to the bad weather (it was drizzling), everything outside was white. I couldn't see anything, so I closed the window shade and went to sleep.

The plane circled around before landing because it was raining in Nanjing.

Afterword#

It was a very interesting trip! Maybe I will go again in the future (?)