Nihon - Day One

Day One: Getting There

Headed to the airport around 10.45am, for 2 hour check in.
After checking in and getting my boarding pass we sat at the cafe and ate a bit of early lunch.
I had a ham and cheese crossoint.
After a quick goodbye I went through the door and headed to customs.

After finally bording we waited close to an hour before we could take off as the airconditioning had to be repaired. The in-flight movie was Iron Man 2, which i found funny as we had just watched the first one a few days earlier on free-to-air TV.
3.20pm = EXTREMELY BORED, and getting a little nauseas.
7.5 hours on a plane is obviously too much for me to fly, starting to feel every move the plane makes.

At Narita Airport we board a shuttle to get to the main building, squeezing in to get on the first shuttle.
Then we all line up at immigration with our passports and boarding passes. I am then directed by a man at the front of the line, which desk to approach. I hand over my passport, press my fingers to the pads and look at the camera. I am then allowed to go through to the next lot of desks. The man askes me a few questions, (yes ok, I get it I pack light!) then directs me through the glass doors. From here you have to find the esculators and head down to the arrivals. Thank goodness my airport transfer is standing right at the front and is easily found (best $300 i ever spent).

From here he leads me to the parking lot and I wait in a loading zone while he collects the car then brings it round to pick me up. Its a 60-70 minute drive he tells me. He was really nice, evem offered me his mobile to call my friends here to let them know I'm here.

At the hotel I check in at the desk and head to my room in the annex building. I get a call to my room a few minutes later saying that he forgot to get my credit card at sign in. I go down to give it to him. there is some sort of problem and he askes me if there is another card, I say there is not and start to panic ( i am already so home sick and want to go home at this stage). A realtivly long phone call later and the problem seems to be fixed.

i head back to my room and wonder what to do at 10.30pm local time. I still haven't eaten but am not feeling hungry either. I decide to try to sleep.

After some very disrupted sleep I wake for day 2!