Will you be able to survive 8 days in Tokyo with a tight budget? 'Japan is an expensive place. You need to save up a lot if you plan to travel there', has almost always been the narrative from people we know when they heard we were traveling to Japan. After our brief stay in Japan, our friends could have attached a Polygraph (aka 'lie-detector'), when we told them how much we spent during … [Read more...]
JAPAN: Most Useful Mobile Apps When Traveling in Japan
Japan, at first thought, was an intimidating place to travel to for me, specially considering that not a lot of people speak English. Through the help of these useful Mobile Apps, this made our trip to Japan much easier. First, we'll start with 2 essential apps no matter which country you visit: Google Maps - With this app, you become Christopher Columbus-like navigating in and around the … [Read more...]
Bidding 2015 Goodbye; Welcoming a New Member
It was early 2014 when we booked a flight for Singapore for February 2015. The aim was to go on a Southeast Asian trip for 2-3 months and have Singapore as the starting point. All the plans had to change though, as late 2014 we found out that Sheena was pregnant with out first baby. As first-time parents, we were tense how everything would go the coming months while waiting for the baby, but it … [Read more...]
How to apply Japan Tourist Visa for Filipinos
What's one of the most agonizing moments pre-travel? For us, it's waiting for your Travel Visa to be approved. We applied for a Visa to China once and got approved and Edcel has applied for a US Tourist Visa last year and got denied. We recently applied for a Japan Tourist Visa and have read through a number of horrors stories of a number of people's application getting denied. After 5 days of … [Read more...]