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  • Meeting Lonely on Takeshita Street

    I shuffled away from Kanda River, cut a bend in Chuo-dori Avenue, and turned right across Maidreamin, speeding down the six-meter-wide street to quickly arrive at Akihabara Station’s Electronic Town South Exit. See you soon Akiba…. For a moment I took a deep breath inside station building, letting my palms and face slightly warm. I…

  • Dieng-Jakarta: Pulang

    Perjalanan meninggalkan wisata Bukit Sikunir tak semacet dini hari sebelumnya. Arus jalanan tampak lancar.  Aku yang membonceng di belakang tentu mendapatkan kesempatan berharga untuk menikmati panorama di kaki Bukit Sikunir yang dini hari tadi gelap gulita ketika kulewati. Pemandangan yang terpampang sungguh menakjubkan. Tampak sebuah danau yang tenang dan jernih menghias di sisi kiri jalan.…

  • Enjoying Akihabara from Kanda River

    Electronic Town South Exit Dinner was finished. I hurriedly left Ameyoko Market and walked back to Ueno Station’s Hirokoji Exit. My steps were getting faster and easier because Tokunai Pass was still active in my hand. I seem to have a power to go in and out of each station since that afternoon. It was…

  • Bukit Sikunir: “Aku Arang-Arang Adus”

    Perlahan mataku membuka, tetapi dinginnya udara dini hari mampu menutup paksanya kembali. Sementara itu tubuhku masih meringkuk kedinginan di sebalik selimut hotel yang tak begitu tebal, padahal aku sudah melapis tubuhku dengan dua t-shirt, salah satunya berlengan panjang….Hebat nian tusukan hawa dingin Dieng di awal pagi itu. Secara bersamaan dering alarm yang terlontar dari gawai…

  • Dinner at Ameya Yokocho, Taitō

    I was standing again at train platform, in Shibuya Station, in Yamanote Line, on 3:48 p.m. The sun had retreated on city skyline and made the temperature degraded to a point of 3 Celsius Degree. Then the air which was nearing to freezing easily penetrated thick black gloves on my palms. But it would be…

  • Mie Ongklok Artha Pringgodani

    Aku tiba di Hotel Gunung Mas setelah melakukan sambangan wisata terakhir di hari pertama, yaitu di situs sakral Tuk Bimalukar. Kuparkirkan mobil di area parkir hotel bagian dalam, tepat di sudutnya. Aku menuju kamar dan mulai mengalirkan air panas di bak mandi. Menunggunya beberapa saat, aku meluruskan badan di ranjang.  Merasakan pegal tarikan otot kaki…

  • Aura of Hachiko Statue, Five Times in Shibuya Crossing

    Still remember?….. When D.K’s black car was chasing Sean Boswell who was speeding in his red racing car and the racing group was led by Han Lue in front who was masculine swerving in his yellow racing car. In the chase, there was a moment when three race cars were forced to pass at an…

  • Panorama Indah dari Tuk Bimalukar

    Usai meninggalkan area luar Kompleks Candi Arjuna, niatku semula yang ingin segera meluruskan kaki di ranjang hotel ternyata kembali urung. Menjelang jam lima sore, akhirnya aku menginjak pedal mobil menuju ke timur sejauh dua kilometer. Menelusuri Jalan Arjuna Barat dan kemudian melintas di depan hotel tempatku menginap yang berposisi di salah satu titik Jalan Dieng.…

  • Meet with Janessa at Yadoya Guesthouse

    Nakano Station building has two levels above ground with eight platforms. The front lobby of station is stretched out with a canopy made of Aluminum Composite Panel until it is right at the front gate of Nakano Sun Mall. When I got there, I exited the north door with a huge paved courtyard decorated with…

  • Candi Gatotkaca, Candi Bima dan Candi Arjuna : Adopsi Nama Pandawa

    Jalanan menjadi tersendat ketika aku menginjak pedal meninggalkan Batu Pandang Ratapan Angin. Dalam kemacetan itu aku masih terus mengutuk diri karena datang ke Dieng pada saat seluruh destinasi wisata di Kabupaten Banjarnegara ditutup sebagai imbas dari penerapan PPKM Level 3. Praktis semenjak pukul sebelas siang, aku hanya bisa mengunjungi dua destinasi wisata Dieng milik Kabupaten…