Japan Day 1

Let’s start with the flight. It was pretty much all it was supposed to be and more. We flew from Boston Logan to Chicago O’Hare which took about 2 ½ hours. That was fine, we even didn’t have much trouble getting through security and all that. We got to O’Hare a little bit early and that gave us plenty of time to get to the next flight which boarded at 11:11am and even get Brien a burger at McDonald’s. The O’Hare to Narita leg was 12 hours 40 minutes long. It was pretty much boring the whole way as the in flight movies were nothing I wanted to watch. George and I did watch The Departed on my laptop and George liked it. It was his first time seeing it. Got almost no sleep on the flight even though they dimmed the lights early. Someone on the other side of the cabin kept yanking the window open to the vast nothing around us at 35000 feet. In any event we landed pretty much on time but had to sit on the tarmac for a few minutes before disembarking. When we got out the line for immigration looked insane, but it did move pretty quick. I should have taken a picture of it. You wouldn’t believe how fast we go through if you saw it. From there we picked up bags which were already through, danced through customs, everyone got some money and purchased bus tickets to the hotel.

The bus ride was brutal because apparently the weekend is when traffic happens in Tokyo. The ride from Narita to the Shiba Park Hotel was over 2 hours and 15 minutes long. We got into the rooms pretty quickly when we got there and all took quick showers and gathered up for a quick run around the area. We have the Tokyo Tower as well as Shiba Park right in the neighborhood and we managed to see them but chose not to go up to the top because it was close to being too late. Instead we just got dinner at a restaurant in the tower city, a 3 story building underneath the tower. From there we did a bit more walking then crashed somewhat early at 10:30ish to try to get some much needed rest for day 2.
As a minor note, the hotel room does not have an internet connection built in. I only have access to the business center which has an internet connection so I will not likely be uploading pictures as it will take hours. I do apologize about that.