27 October 2019
Still not in Tokyo
Hong Kong to Narita on a Hong Kong Airlines A330
Now I am on the very familiar Kesei Skyliner train going from Narita airport to Tokyo, which is far, but fast. I am typing this on the train and the Japanese guy next to me is reading it, or trying to anyway. Hello something-san!
Prior to this, I experienced a new record. After the plane landed, bounced 3 times and came to a halt somewhere near Japan, we then proceeded to taxi back to the terminal, for 38 minutes. A new record. It was so very very slow. I could not see out the front of the plane, but I can assure you that there was a little old man running slowly in front of it directing the pilot, waving a flag and blowing a whistle while wearing a vest with lights embedded in it. He stopped for tea at one point and checked the fax machine for updated directions to the terminal.
Since I am working back chronologically, prior to that, I was on a plane, from Hong Kong to Narita, it was only a 4 hour flight. We left late but that was fine, as I am too early for my hotel. This timeline is confusing I know. The flight was fine, I did not get any sleep. That is a theme. It was also completely full, which was surprising.
As we came into Narita, I thought I might see Fuji, but it is cloudy. I noticed quite a lot of people taking photos of cloud where Fuji should be. Maybe they have fancy cameras that can see through cloud? Or maybe they plan to photoshop fuji into the photo, theres a filter for that.
Now working back a bit further to where the other update ended which mentally seems to have been written about a week ago, time to discuss the nap couch thing. No nap. The CHAISE LOUNGE was too hard, strange angle, it was too noisy and too damn cold. People kept coming in to my little area to see if I was really a person or if they could sleep there. So now we (me / I) are on no sleep for days and still I have managed to take some really boring photos I have taken previously.
Upon arriving in Japan, I still like to get a wifi thing, instead of a SIM card. That way I can use my regular work SIM card to receive SMS's to log into various secure work related things. Anyway, I preorder it months in advance from the same place I have always used which is probably the most expensive. I knew the post office would be shut for another 10 minutes but that was fine, theres a coffee shop next door.
I post this here because everyone arriving in Japan needs to collect something from this shop, either a wifi thingy or a SIM card. So here is the shop. It opens at 08:30.
I took this photo on a previous trip and used it to debug the way chrome re sizes photos with very poor quality. So I took it again so I can analyze later and become frustrated that Google has again changed / broken something.
And for the last boring photo. Its an airport. Lots of construction going on inside and out. There was basically no carpet anywhere inside, just dusty concrete. It really is a crap airport.