TICKETS

First of all, I have to get my tickets for the concert. As you have known, getting ticket concert in Japan isn't like in Indonesia where we can buy it anytime, whether it's going to the outlet or thru online, as long as the tickets available. It's different in Japan.
The system for getting tickets in Japan is thru lottery/ballot. For Tohoshinki, there are two types.
1st - Bigeast (Tohoshinki's official fanclub in Japan) Lottery, which means that only Bigeast member can apply for this lottery. Usually, there will be 2 ballots with a periode of 1~3 months.
2nd - Public Lottery. Everyone can apply for this lottery. This public lottery is usually from SevenEleven.net, ticket-pia, yahoo premium. As long as you make an account on those websites, you can apply. But of course, you have to have a japanese address, etc.
I got my tickets from bigeast and public lottery. I ask my friends to apply for me. You can apply for 4 tickets max. But you don't know whether you can win the lottery or not. You can win all the tickets applied, or don't win any at all or just few tickets. It depends on your luck, so pray hard~!

So here is the example of apply public lottery from Yahoo!Premium. 



You don't have Japanese friend to help you apply for the bigeast/public lottery? Don't worry. You can search the tickets from twitter. It's common that someone will sell their ticket in twitter, and you can find many selling tickets near the concert date. You can search it on Twitter using english ofc, but it'll be awesome if you can understand Japanese because almost all of the sellers can't understand English, they can only talk in Japanese. As I say, almost.
This is the example of the winning tix. I won the tokyo dome ticket (hooray~!)

PLANE TICKET & VISA

Now, because I live in Indonesia so I need plane ticket. It'll be better if you buy it months before the concert date because the price will be cheaper. Don't be like me. I bought the plane ticket 3 weeks before the concert date. Blame my money. I didn't tell my parents that I'd go to Japan so all the expense is pure my money. As you know that you have to present proof of your money in your bank account for Japan Visa. 1 day is around 1 million. So, if you are going to stay in Japan for 15 days, you better have 15 millions in your bank account. I planned to go for 10 days, do the math.
My saving isn't that much so I did all in one go. I bought the plane ticket minutes after I print out my saving (as one of the document required for getting Visa) so that my money in my bank account is accepted by the officer.

The problem is, I couldn't get cheap ticket around that time! It was too close to the date that's why. The cheapest ticket I got was around 6 millions, I didn't have any choice...
What's the airlines? It's Scoot, an airlines from Singapore. I had to go to Singapore before boarding the plane and took off to Narita Airport, Japan. It was such a long ride, because Scoot will be landing in Taiwan for an hour before going to Japan.  But, the plus point was that I got to explore Changi Airport and Taipei Airport! (hooray~!)

Have I told you that I didn't tell my parents I go to Japan?
Well, I was planning to go secrectly. But... Yes, there is a but. My sister didn't agree with me. She told me that she won't give me her permission to go to Japan if my parents didn't know. But I was too afraid to tell my father. He is kind of strict person. My mother is okay though, she'll give me permission to anything I want (as long as it's a right thing). So I asked my sister to tell my father and she did. I got my permission! my father didn't mad or anything! I was worried for nothing~

PACKING

This is the thing that I don't want to do (but have to). I bought 15kg baggage so I used a small suitcase. I didn't bring many clothes and only bring light clothes.
Things I bring for daily life:
1. 3 T-shirts and 1 dress
2. 2 skirts and 1 legging
3. 3 socks
4. Cosmetics (remember: do not bring any liquid over 100mL)
5. Toothbrush and toothpaste (didn't bring any soap/shampoo. It'll be provided by the hotel I stay in)
6.  2 Shoes (because I have such a lovely shoes I want to wear in Harajuku~)
7. Handphone, Handycam, Tablet, and Power Bank (A MUST)
8. Some snacks.
Things I have to bring for the concert:
1. Bigeast Towel.
2. Lightstick (Tohoshinki's and Yunjae's (oh! I'm a fan)
3. Uchiwa.
And it didn't weight over 15kg (Thanks god).


Okay, see you in the next part~