The rare third update in a day. Actually it was done when I woke up the next morning due to my late arrival.
The second flight was better than the first, seat was newer and I had a spare one next to me, but there were a lot more coughers and sneezers in my general vicinity so now we play the dreaded waiting game.
The challenge was, the flight left about 30 minutes late, then circled twice due to congestion before landing, in the rain. Given the cataclymically terrible arrival hall situation at Haneda airport, this meant I was now at risk of missing the last trains, which leave around midnight. So I race walked the very large distance to customs and passed about a thousand people standing still on travellators.
The line situation was still not good, there is still general confusion, the QR code still seems a bit pointless and there are more people wandering around with signs about QR codes than there are people actually checking passports, plus you have to scan your QR code 3 different times and it is all just convenience with extra steps, and a long line. However I got through in under an hour, last time was about 2.5 hours, so this meant I could make my train with ease.
It was however raining quite hard, and my hotel is a few hundred metres from the train station, so I arrived at my hotel looking a bit drowned and the night clerk was concerned for his safety at first, and then mine.
The good news however is, 3 hotel photos and a plane photo, the hotel room is a bit unusual as you shall see, I know no one read this far and scrolled straight to the hotel photos.
This photo was taken before departing Singapore. It is my plane, another Airbus A350. I thought I had better included one plane shot.
Now for the 3 photos of the hotel room, here is the first one, pretty standard, bed around to the left but where is the bathroom door? It is not just to my left. Note the desk and chair in this photo.
Behold, second desk. A hotel room with 2 desks and 2 chairs. How exciting. I will alternate between the 2 desks to type this nonsense. Also the bathroom door is down that weird hallway towards the second desk. I also have a lot of windows to deal with.
And finally after a very long day, the obligatory bathroom photo.
Tomorrow (Today as I am typing this) is raining all day, so no hiking.