Greetings from Narita Tokyo! Time here is 835am and I'm now resting from from 45min tour looking at kawaii nihon sales staff. I'm stopping over in Narita for a 2 hr transit before heading off to Chicago on NH12. Expecting to arrive on 21 Aug 9am. Which is pretty weird cos that's supposed to be 25min from now. Oh well, the wonders of modern technology. What's even more annoying than weird now is that my entire blogger page is in japanese (the hyperlinks at least). "Smart" technology shouldn't assume I'm a japanese speaker just because I log in from a Japan IP.
I'm also paying 500 yen just for 2 hours of internet access (well, actually the password is for 1 day). Now I completely appreciate why Changi is so traveller friendly: The entire airport back home is a wireless hotspot free of all charges.
All the cafes here sell stuff in japanese yen, and I don't feel like blowing my USD on crappy exchange rates for overpriced coffees, so I'll wait till the flight to get tanked up on caffeine. Didn't sleep much on the singapore-narita leg, since spiderman 3 was on (didn't watch that yet), and the ANA stewardesses felt it was necessary to grace each "fasten seat belts" event with an announcement. I swear that on more than one occasion, the pilot must have accidentally bumped the button on the way to the gents.
Anyway, my Canon camera ran flat on batteries and the charger's in the checked in luggage, so I have to rely on my trusty (and crappy) Palm Treo camera to take shots of the Narita International Departure area. It's dull and boring, lacking in character. Thank goodness I could find a nice power point to sponge off some power for the laptop.
Alright, I'll post back in again when I reach the USA. Might be Chicago where I'll lay over for 3 hours. We'll see. =)
Edit: A shot of Narita from where I'm sitting now:
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