We made it to Japan. 13 1/2 hours on a relatively full 777. We left Sunday morning from DFW at 10:10am and landed at NRT on Monday afternoon at 2:20pm local time. We flew up over British Columbia, Alaska, part of Russia, and down to Tokyo, so from that aspect the flight was pretty cool.

Clearing immigration was interesting – there’s a checkbox that says “Are you in possession of Narcotics, Marijuana, Opiates, Stimulates or …. Other Drugs.” I have a prescription with me, so to be honest, I checked “yes.” I don’t think that’s what they meant. After I handed the paper to the immigration officer his eyes got huge. He did a double take then asked me “What?!” in that why would you admit to this tone. I handed him a note from my doctor and explained that I thought it might fall under “other drugs.” Glad we got that all straightened out.

We leave next Sunday to come home. We’ll leave NRT at 5:30pm and arrive at ORD before we left at 3:30pm the same day. That shouldn’t mess with my internal clock too much
</sarcasm>.

We have Tuesday to ourselves so I’m trying to talk a couple of people into going to Mt. Fuji. It’s 1500 Yen ($15) to take the train down from the hotel. Brian said he’s up for it, so we’ll see.

I didn’t realize that our hotel was this close to the Tokyo Tower, so we’ll definitely make sure to go see that while we’re here too.

So, here we are.

I’ve put a few pics of our arrival up here, but I’ll probably break down and set up a flikr account later. Until then:  Japan Pics

Update 05/06/2008:  I set up the flickr account here.

Sayonara,
Goody