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September 2018, TDA squad were travelling in Semarang. We named us TDA which
means teman dunia akhirat, amin. Lawang sewu becomes most wanted destination if
you visit Semarang. Aside to its mystical history, this building is
instragamable for youth. This time I’m gonna write my story here visiting Lawang
Sewu Semarang.
Lawang
sewu located at Tugu Muda complex Jl. Pemuda, Semarang. A brief story
about it that perhaps everyone knows already, lawing sewu is not exactly having
1000 doors. The fact is written 342 doors only. People called sewu or a
thousand as there are 429 door’s frame and handling door more than 1200 pieces.
I don’t count exactly, all this information I got from google.
We were in semarang for spending week
end refreshing from our tight and crazy works. Haha. We’re just from cimory
farm at ungaran then we went to lawing sewu by go car. At that time we just
arrived there around 9 pm. Crazy uji nyali I thought, haha. Unintentionally, I
have 2 friends, Lydia and ifa, are sensitive with such mystically things. While
nuri and I are not. So we can enjoy to selfie without any disruption from
ghosts. We’re entering the gate which actually the operational visitor time
will be ended 30 min ahead. However we still decided to enter the building. The
price of entering ticket was 10.000 for each. Based on google it open from 7 am
– 9 pm. However it will close till 9.30. we were offered whether a guide can
accompany us, but we don’t need a guide.
As I knew the first door was closed, I
don’t know why. So the visitors were guided to use behind door. I saw still
many youth there cz it’s Saturday night. I heard some people were running while
laughing at second floor maybe they were trying uji nyali or frightening their
friend I don’t know, haha. Okay, we were in first floor. There are a lot of
paintings and pictures describing lawang sewu in colonialized era. It was first
as an office of Nederlands-Indische
Spoorweg Maatschappij or NIS, was
built in 1904 and finished in 1907. After the independence of Indonesia this
building used as an office of Djawatan Kereta Api Repoeblik Indonesia (DKARI)
or now called PT Kereta Api Indonesia. When still in colonial era, this building
became one of a silent witness of semarang war between AMKA youth versus
Kempetai and Kidobutai Japan army. In another room, there’s like theater room
shown a video, unfortunately no body watched it. It such a museum of train. Oh
ya, this building has been revitalization several times till now used as an
tourism object in Semarang.
Underground room was closed for
visitors. I forgot exactly on which floor it was, but I saw there’s a dark deep
room there. I didn’t have any brave to look in it, hehe. So we moved into
second floor and took some pictures. Then we’re gonna back to hotel. There’s
funny story, nuri and I were back from we first entrance way, meanwhile Lydia
and ifa were through opposite entrance. They said they saw someone blocked
their way but its feet didn’t step on the ground. They spontaneously screamed
and came to me. We went down passing the old well. It looks creepy as the
lights were yellow. Then, we were back to hotel by go car and tomorrow cuz to
Surabaya. Such an unforgettable memory.
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