Sleeping over night in Spa when we can’t find hotel in Japan

 

Pauline from Mexico recommended us HelpX

Today we check out from the hostel. For hostel I don’t really recommend there. Unlike Krabi’s hostel which is clean and spacious. This Japanese hostel we stay in is small, cramped and stuffy. As one of the men in mixed dorm has a smelly feet I was like oh my gosh for the whole night. Jackie on the other hand enjoyed her stay as her room mate was better. 

There where she met our new friend Paulina from Mexico. We grab breakfast at a local coffee shop in Shinimatoza. There we met a well spoken Japanese old man who can speak fluent English. Very experienced as he knew all our culture from SG to MY to even Mexico. He shared some unique Japanese cultural difference. 

• like to beat around the bush and implicate things
• Surface and heart not align and you need to push 3x if you are gifting to a Japanese as it is their culture to have to reject you 2 times. lol

Paulina left us shortly with a super big luggage and she was impressed with our one bag travel. She don’t know how we can be so “compressed” and ultra light setup. We had coined a word call urban hiking which is like conventional hiking but less cooking gear and sleeping system. We hike with backpack and eat along the way using credit card and sleep in different temporary shelter every night. 

She also shared with us her last experience to do a work exchange in Japan. She found the volunteers work thru helpX platform. We might want to explore volunteering for the upcoming week. 

Just so light for 3 months travel

Jackie join me in 7kg travel but winter we need more clothes

As explained in previous post that accommodation has surge to > $300. So we end up sleeping overnight at a Spa from this week and we will see how we can still travel in Japan and see if weekday the price will come down a little