Saturday 4 November 2023

Japan! We have arrived!

Sue drove us to Vancouver International Airport on November 3/23.  We’re off to Japan….finishing up in Sri Lanka.



Marlene and I arriving at YVR



Flying Air Canada.  We have a delay in boarding due to mechanical issues on the boarding ramp and then the pilot explained that the route had been altered (I think due to turbulence) which would extend our flight time by over 1.5 hours.  It was already going to be 10 hours so now it seems waaaaay longer.  Lots of turbulence but we make it.






Waiting for our Airport Limousine service to take us to Haneda Airport where our hotel is located.  Great service.  Very comfortable.  We then had to manoeuvre the train system to take the train to our hotel.  Only 3 stops and 200 yen.  We then walk to our hotel which was about 10 minutes arriving at 10:30 pm but my body was saying it’s 4 am!  Off to bed.  Comfy bed.



Breakfast was included!  This is it and only chopsticks!  Coffee was extra.  I don’t think coffee is a priority here.  Sure tasted good though.



It’s quite warm today as we head back to the train station to head back to the airport.  We fly out to Osaka to meet our tour group.



Flying Japan Airlines.  The airport is huge!  Big difference in that there are very limited options for something to eat once we go through security.  One coffee place but we were able to get a latte.  Woohoo!



Mt. Fuji poking through the clouds.



Flying into Osaka.  Beautiful day. 



View from our hotel room. We’re on the 34th floor. There are 54 floors.  Nice hotel just one train stop from Kansai Airport. 



Our hotel is located close to a mall where we went for dinner. This was a store that just has all these little machines where you put in some money and it gives you a small surprise. They are all over Japan. I really don’t see what the fascination is!  Crazy!

Off to bed.  We’re doing a walking tour tour tomorrow so we have to be up early.  It’s at least an hours train ride from our hotel in to the downtown section of Osaka!

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