Off the airplane and long wait for flight to Bangkok

Ten hours ago I was sitting in an airport lounge in Sydney. Two hours ago I touched down in the most populated city in the world. Welcome to Tokyo, Japan, a city with a population greater than that of Australia and a transport system that goes like clockwork. I thought this whole transit thing would be a breeze, but there's more city to this cit...

So I'm at Narita airport ( Tokyo ) waiting for my plane to Bangkok . My plans for Tokyo were thwarted by poor planning of this part of my adventure. I just spent all my time panning for the other 3 countries and just assumed that 16 hours was plenty of time to get a little peek of Tokyo but sadly it wasn't. I arrived in the evening but my plane ...

We landed at Narita at 6 in the morning or so and quickly made ourselves first in line at the Delta counter which opened at 10am. The Thai Delta office had apparently taken some concern in our plight and upgraded our seats from sitting in middle seats in separate rows from one another to Business Class seats next to each other with a window. Nic...

Well, I've done it... I have made it to Japan!!! Woop woop. It wasn't until we were well past Indonesia (and our second movie - Batman Begins BTW) that I fully comprehended that I was going to go over the Equator line and venture into the Northern Hemisphere... if you're thinking that I should have realised that before, you're right but this is ...

Japan, Japan, Japan, always love returning there...so nice to be somewhat closer to home in terms of "civilization"....that's all I need to say. Those who have travelled to both China and Japan know what I'm talking about! Met up with Todd who showed us around Asakusa (visited the big famous temple there) and the craziness that is Tokyo...Shinju...