The Japan Blogs - October 2007

Wow was yesterday a loooooong day! Take off to touch down was 12 hours as advertised. It was a good flight...for the most part. I still didn't sleep much at all, but that's not new news.

We decided to take an airport limo in to Tokyo since we are staying in Shinjuku rather than Ueno this time and since it was around 5:45pm when we got in to "downtown" it was another 45 minutes to slog through traffic. Not surprisingly it was getting *extremely* difficult to stay awake.

So...umm...why was it so hard to sleep on the plane but a strubble to keep form falling on the sleep on the bus in ? Umm...let's try that one again...why was it so hard to sleep on the plane but such a struggle to keep from falling asleep on the bus? Certainly quite a bit of fatigue I'll say...and quite a bit left over this morning after looking at that first attempt. ^_^;

Breakfast at the hotel was quite a bit different from the breakfast we have had previous times when we stayed at a more traditional ryokan over on the other side of town. No, the actual food wasn't all that different...'just the Y2300 per person versus Y600. DOUBle ahwell...it's a nice place though.

I guess since the room here at the hotel is about 3 to 4 times the size of the usual 4- or 6-tatami mat room of the ryokan, the food *could* be 3 to 4 times more as well.

Today will be some tourist-ing around after checking in at the JR station for next weeks train tickets.