Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Eagle has Landed - In Japan

Well we made it. I won't make a long post, but I have some pictures. Nothing really went wrong. Vancouver, the flight, Narita, the train to downtown and the subway to the hotel, not to mention finding the hotel itself all went fine.

The end of the flight was a roller coaster. I almost lost it. The immigration line in Narita took forever - over an hour. So our faith in Japanese organization took a slight dip.

Anya's faith that a lot of people in Japan speak english has been crushed, but most of the signs have english. Enough to make it work for us. So we bought all our train stuff with little trouble. The total travel time by train and subway was about 2 hours.

After arriving at the hotel we walked the back streets for some cheap eats, which we got in the style of a ramen shop... looked like the Denny's of Japan. And yes, we did see a McDonalds, Starbucks and Denny's. We'll probably save the Denny's for later. So on to Day 1!

Japan - Day0

1 comment:

Darren said...

mmmmm ramen! Yeah. The Japanese don't speak English. Maybe they are sort of proud, inward looking, tradition bound (not negatives). Frankly, learning Japanese looks hard enough, who'd want to start another after that!