This morning I had a sleepless night as my immense excitement for travelling to Japan grew. I woke up nice and early and finally started packing my bags, I almost couldn’t find my passport last night so I was a little stressed but I knew it would be fine.
My first stop when we got to the airport was to head down to the lounge. I had a pass that I had linked and so it only made sense to get the most bang for my buck and start drinking some beers. I smashed down 3 and then headed to board the plane with Bailey and Damian where I planned to down some more inflight.
The flight was more manageable than what I thought it was going to be. This was the first time I’d be taking a long haul flight during the day in economy. Over night is fine because you can just sleep some of it away, and last time I was in business so life was good.
This time I just watched a few movies, played some games on my switch, and had some short naps. The next thing I knew we were descending down through the clouds and the runway lights of Narita airport shone brightly.
Upon landing I was hoping that the flight was the last slog of a trip that we had to do and that things would speed up. Boy was I wrong. Our first task out of plane was to get through immigration, and we were in line for over an hour. Finally through immigration and customs we went down to the train station, headed for Tokyo.
Between not being able to correctly buy Shinkansen tickets, and having a mild level of stress around our timings, we successfully made it into Tokyo and had a ticket for the last train to Sendai. Finally in Sendai we hopped in a taxi for half an hour, more desperate than ever for a Strong Zero.
Met by Julia and Yashuk when we finally arrived, we were greeted by strong zeroes and some snacks. I was very relieved. We shared some stories of all of our adventures in making our ways to Sendai, and after 20 hours of travelling we slunk off to bed and fell fast asleep.