Soooo in honor of the 3rd anniversary of the infamous Tokyo trip™ I decided to share a timeline I wrote up quite a while ago (and cleaned up for the occasion). There seemed to be confusion in the fandom regarding when exactly they left, where they went and when, how long the trip lasted etc. so at some point I went through the trouble of scrolling through the tumblr jikook tag/twitter jikook search (especially tweets in Japanese bc I happen to understand the language at an intermediate level) to try and piece things together and this is what I came up with. Is it important? Did we need this at all? Absolutely not, but it’s all I can contribute in this celebration.
Timeline of the info we got while the trip was taking place:
October 28: talks of jikook coming to Japan start around 1pm. Airport pics are shared around 8pm. They left from Busan and were seen off by Jungkook’s father and Jimin’s brother.
(pics are from Gimhae airport in Busan. Even Japanese armys are unsure whether Jikook are actually in Japan until much later)
October 29: we actually got nothing on this day lol. I might have missed some unpopular fanaccounts. No pictures either way.
October 30: rumors/accounts of Jikook being spotted in Shinjuku and Shibuya (including Harajuku and Omotesando). Starting from 10pm, various pics of jikook on the street are shared (both pics taken in the daytime and at nighttime). The two appear to be shopping, judging by the bags Jimin is carrying. In all these pics, Jungkook is wearing his green hoodie and Jimin is wearing a black outfit and a bucket hat (the part of GCFT in the Saint Laurent store as well as Red Rock was clearly filmed on the same day). Note that in GCFT, we can see the shopping happened on Oct 30, so the sightings are from today.
October 31: around 6pm, a pic of Jikook at Disneyland is shared. It is also mentioned that the two watched the fireworks together. Considering the firework show takes place at 8.30pm, one can assume the pic must be from yesterday (as we can also see in GCFT, they’re also wearing the same outfits as in the pics we saw yesterday, with the only difference that jm is wearing a cap insteas of a bucket hat, and a black turtleneck instead of a printed black tshirt). An account from someone who saw them at Disneyland also claims it was a Monday night, which confirms it was the 30th (this also means that most of what we see in GCFT was filmed on Oct 30 except for the beginning).
Around 10pm pics of them at a Gucci store and sorrounding area (Tokyu department store) are shared: in these, jikook are wearing the same outfits they’ll be wearing at the airport when they go back to Korea, so I believe these pictures are from today, unlike the Disneyland ones.
November 1: at around 5am pics of jikook at Tokyo airport are shared. They probably left the previous night.
Later we also get accounts from people seeing them in Shibuya the previous day, plus at 4pm someone posts pics of them wandering in Shibuya: jk is wearing the green hoodie and jm is wearing his green jacket. The poster, who ran into them, claims the pics are from the day before yesterday (Oct 30). This seems a bit strange since jm is wearing the green jacket and a cap, unless these pics were taken right before jikook went to Disneyland and Jimin took off his jacket. Either that or OP got it wrong and the pics are either from the 29th or the 31st (assuming they managed to change clothes at some point).
Now, as we know, some months later jikook claimed that the longest walk they’ve ever had was when they walked “the whole day” in Shibuya during their trip. It is unclear which day this was, but I guess it was either the 29th or the 31st, but I’d say the 31st makes more sense since it was Halloween and they were dressed up (if that’s the case, considering they were spotted at the Gucci store that day, they were probably exaggerating a bit when they said they walked the whole day and it was probably the whole afternoon or something like that). So they either walked around Shibuya on the 29th (and nobody recognized them, like jikook themselves claimed), or they did on the 31st but also went to the Gucci store on the same day, and then went to the airport.
THEREFORE, we can conclude the trip went as follows:
October 28: jikook leave for Tokyo from Busan
October 29: unknown. Possible walk around Shibuya wearing costumes
October 30: shopping in Shibuya and Shinjuku; dinner at Red Rock; Disneyland
October 31: possible walk around Shibuya wearing costumes; shopping at Tokyu department store (Gucci store); going back to Korea
that's probably the case, but they said on their live just now that only the host has access to the live's guest/invite list, so the others didn't know what happened until the host suddenly screamed and told them about it. idk what to believe anymore, but i wouldn't be surprised if it's true since it wouldn't be the first time jk has joined a jikook group's live. i just wish they hadn't spread it around because pjms are starting to find out about it, and now they're dragging jk over it.
the filo jikookers who went live earlier—the ones claiming jungkook joined—are live on tiktok again, and from what they're saying, i think it might actually be true. according to them, they were just talking about something then the live's host suddenly screamed and said that jk was on the invite list on their live. jk's probably lurking on tiktok and might or might not accidentally joined the live.
I saw someone say that he was probably invited by someone because he had the option turned on and not because he did it on his own
tkkrs influence in the fandom is insane, bc why am i seeing pjms use their narratives just to prove jkk are not close or whenever jkkrs posts a jkk appreaciation twt some of them will be in the comments posting a tkk video or pics, like what is happening to them?
Unfortunately this has been going on for years. The logic behind this is that since jm gets a lot of hate because of jikook, supporting tk will make people stop shipping jikook (?), thus decreasing the hate jm gets. Completely ignoring the fact that the hate comes from tkks in the first place 😬
https://x.com/i/status/2080280701966880985 just a reminder, we actually got this moment in real life 🫠🫠 the grip.. the fact that Jungkook is doing this to his hyung that's two years older than him, it's just so intimate
https://x.com/maynkydvv/status/2074885925935690003 lowkey jikook circa 2017-18 but it wasn't brief or the universe and they just decided they were better as bffs
Jk prioritizing his career doesn't mean he is a bad person, you seem to think it is tho. Nothing was hateful in what i said. I just don't think he cares about jm as much as you think he does. Again this doesn't make him a bad person unless if you think he owes jm smth.
I don't think he "owes" jm something, I simply think (know) you're extremely wrong and delusional. Now please get off my blog if all you can do is just putting random words together without making any sense thanks.
He said he wanted to be the ONLY one, you left out this word on purpose.
I didn't say jk and jm hated one another, it's like you're the one making things up to be mad about.
It literally changes nothing??? What's the correlation. You claim you don't think jk is a bad person and that jikook don't hate each other yet you're coming up with all this hateful nonsense that very clearly imply jk is a bad person and doesn't care about jm. Seriously get a grip
