First the flight. It was actually not as bad as I thought it would be. I had everything in order so customs and security were a breeze, so I ended up waiting at the terminal for a while, but my flight was on time (another plus) and there were no babies, screaming or other wise, on the plane (yet another plus). I left Denver International Airport at quarter to 9 and braced myself for the long flight ahead. Thank goodness for my iPod and laptop. It was a 2 hour flight to Seattle/Tacoma International Airport. We had to make a pit stop for fuel and such before trekking across the Pacific Ocean. I took a nap on the plane too, I missed crossing the International Dateline though. I will have to catch it on the way back. My plane was late arriving in Japan. We had head winds so instead of the 4:15 PM, I arrived at Tokyo Narita Airport at nearly 5. It was very crowded and I had trouble navigating around.
Now for the train station fun.
I met up with my guide, Taji Najamoto, a great young man who has more than earned his pay already, and he got us to the train station. I would've much rather have taken one of those lovely buses directly to the hotel, but he insisted on taking me the "authentic" way. So we lugged my luggage a couple of blocks to the train station, rode a train, I can't tell you which train because my Japanese character recognition is sub-par, transfered to another train with an indistinguishable name, and walked to the hotel. That entire exchange took a little over an hour. I checked into my room and crashed. I will probably sleep most of the day tomorrow too. I'll update if I have some time where I'm lucid enough to type. Ja ne!
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