Anyways so here it goes!
Living like a cheapass.
Mr. Air and I were staying at a guesthouse in Tamaplaza (between Yokohama and Tokyo). It's a very small town thats away from the big city. According to Kenny its a town for rich people to live, I did see alot of nice cars and super nice looking houses near the guesthouse. Our guesthouse, however, is a hella ghetto building.
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| The street we lived on. Roughly 10 mins walk to the closest train station. |
For those who don't know, a guesthouse is a building where you rent just the room (a tiny ass room at that, if you're coming from N. America), and share everything else.. such as bathrooms... showers... kitchen.. living room.. etc.. Alot of foreigners stay at these places because the rent is reletive cheap for longer stays.
The building that we lived in is called "ElDorado", owned by an old Japanese guy named Joe (who can speak some english). This is my 2nd time staying here, the first time being 2 years ago when I went to Japan to visit Kenny, that time I stayed for almost 1.5 month I believe, that was training trip 1, and this time is #2. (yes, I go to Japan just to play street fighter and eat ramen, what? :p)
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| ElDorado, the front door |
I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but unlike Mr. Sponsored, I had to pay for the whole trip on my own, and having Kenny being the jewbag that he always is. We were ALWAYS watching our budget. The flight ticket was retardedly expensive, for it is high season. But Kenny san has to train up for EVO so I figured "fuck it, I wanna train" and tagged along (I didn't even go to EVO, which I hella regret, I'm so going next year).
So we're staying there for 2 full weeks. That is 14 days. We had planned to spend as little as possible each day. That means sticking to ramen and cheap ricebowls (which are VERY delish btw, and affordable, I love that shiz to death) and staying away from "nice" restaurants.
We didn't have any shopping to do either, other than some small things Kenny had to pick up for his girlfriend at Harajuku's "Halloween Street" *I don't know what it's really called, but it's a strip with a ton of shops that sells small gifts and such, total tourist area. We just call it "halloween street" cause of the amount of scary looking mofos that travel back and forth there (pork chops, tatted up and full of piercings shop employees.. etc, weird people :p)*
Traveling cost (within Japan) was high as well but we only make single trips out to the game stations early in the day then ride the last train home everyday, so we kept train rides to a minimum. Thank god everything in Tamaplaza does not have the tourist markup, especially on food and daily needs and such. We are able to aquire snacks, cup noodles, and drinks usually at around 100yen (roughly a dollar CAD) a piece.
I had this most ultimatly badass ice cream waffle I got from a conveinence store there for a dollar, it was SOOO GOOD (Sorry, I devoured it within mins so didn't have a chance to take picture, that's how good it was :p)
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| 100yen gigantic iced tea that usually lasts me from 1am - 4pm the next day when we leave the house. Cheap FTW! |
Of course, being Chinese and all, we did not forget to cheap out on daily supplies. Shampoos, bodywash, and toothpaste... etc were aquired from various different stores depending on which one had it the cheapest (most asians are born with the ability to do this :p).
To top it off, if possible, we would buy the "refill" version of the shampoo and bodysoap, which just comes in a non-resealable bag, and then we would just pour dat shiz into empty drink bottles. INSTANT RESEAL CAPABILITY! (genius? I know)
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| INSTANT RESEAL CAPABILITY!? Hell yes!! |
Cheers and thanks for reading gais,
Justin
lol, funny post. Do you have any pics of the guest room you were staying at? I'm wondering how small.
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