Denver 5:50am
Thurs to Dallas 8:45am
Thurs
Denver time 5:50am
Thurs 2 hrs. 7:45am
Thurs
Tokyo time 8:50pm
Thurs
Dallas 10:25am
Thurs to Tokyo 1:55pm
Fri
9:25am
Thurs 13.5 hrs. 10:55pm Thurs
1.5 hours in layovers + 15.5 hours flying = 17
hours
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Tokyo 6:30pm
Mon to Dallas 3:05pm
Mon
2:30am Mon 11.5 hrs 2.05pm Mon
Dallas 8:25pm
Mon to Denver 9:25pm Mon
7:25pm Mon 2 hrs 9:25pm Mon
1:30pm
Tues
5.5 hours in layovers + 13.5 hours flying = 19 hours.
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Flying through Dallas would not have been my first choice. We're flying 1.5 hours east in the wrong direction before we fly west to Tokyo, but my wallet decided we could not afford the non-stop from Denver to Tokyo since it cost nearly twice as much.
Our flights to Tokyo are uneventful. Thirteen plus hours on one flight is really long and even bad airplane food and boring movies barely helps the time inch along. It's bed time for us back home as we approach Narita Airport, but only 2pm in Tokyo, so we have some time for adventure. First stop is the airport post office to pick up our pocket wifi hotspot. This was worth every penny of the $67 it cost. We were able to use google maps on our iphones to navigate our way around the city. I'm not sure how we would have found anything without it. I ordered it from Global Advanced Communications and it worked out great. Highly recommended!
Next stop is a ticket on the Keisei Skyliner train to Ueno station. It's about a 40 minute ride into the city. It was suggested we just grab a taxi at that point rather than the subway since we have luggage, but it's just not that easy to find a taxi. Luckily there was a huge map outside the station showing taxi's down the street. Our taxi driver can't find our hotel on his map. It's okay because I can't get google maps to ever find it either, but from all my homework I know where it is and can zoom in on it via google and show him. A few minutes later we are within a block of our hotel and walk to it. It's the Richmond Hotel Asakusa and it appears to be in a very charming area with little shops and streets that only bicycles ride on. Our room, 1111, is small and square in shape with only one bed, but it's really nice and will suit us just fine. We don't have a view of the temples, like I've read some rooms do, but we have a great view of the neighborhood below and it's very quaint and very quiet at night.
I'm not exactly sure what this sign means on the TP roll in the hotel room:
We decide to walk around a bit as it's not quite late enough to go to sleep. We stroll through a 4 story market, Don Quijoti, that sells all types of food and household goods. Someone (not me) forgot her sunglasses, so she buys a pair of $5 Walmart quality sunglasses for $10 and we make our first Kit Kat purchase! Strawberry and Pumpkin/Halloween flavor. We also make our first "why can't they sell this in America" purchase -- Milk Tea. YUM!
Our flights to Tokyo are uneventful. Thirteen plus hours on one flight is really long and even bad airplane food and boring movies barely helps the time inch along. It's bed time for us back home as we approach Narita Airport, but only 2pm in Tokyo, so we have some time for adventure. First stop is the airport post office to pick up our pocket wifi hotspot. This was worth every penny of the $67 it cost. We were able to use google maps on our iphones to navigate our way around the city. I'm not sure how we would have found anything without it. I ordered it from Global Advanced Communications and it worked out great. Highly recommended!
Next stop is a ticket on the Keisei Skyliner train to Ueno station. It's about a 40 minute ride into the city. It was suggested we just grab a taxi at that point rather than the subway since we have luggage, but it's just not that easy to find a taxi. Luckily there was a huge map outside the station showing taxi's down the street. Our taxi driver can't find our hotel on his map. It's okay because I can't get google maps to ever find it either, but from all my homework I know where it is and can zoom in on it via google and show him. A few minutes later we are within a block of our hotel and walk to it. It's the Richmond Hotel Asakusa and it appears to be in a very charming area with little shops and streets that only bicycles ride on. Our room, 1111, is small and square in shape with only one bed, but it's really nice and will suit us just fine. We don't have a view of the temples, like I've read some rooms do, but we have a great view of the neighborhood below and it's very quaint and very quiet at night.
I'm not exactly sure what this sign means on the TP roll in the hotel room:
We head out to find some dinner and stop in a little place with no English on the menu but pictures and aromas that look and smell good. Thankfully the waitress speaks English and helps us to order a plate with pork, squid and shrimp -- tonkatsu -- also rice and miso soup. It was around $10 total.
We decide to walk around a bit as it's not quite late enough to go to sleep. We stroll through a 4 story market, Don Quijoti, that sells all types of food and household goods. Someone (not me) forgot her sunglasses, so she buys a pair of $5 Walmart quality sunglasses for $10 and we make our first Kit Kat purchase! Strawberry and Pumpkin/Halloween flavor. We also make our first "why can't they sell this in America" purchase -- Milk Tea. YUM!
In the store we see our first American movie star ad -- Leonardo!
At 8:30pm my Tween is crashing so to bed it is. We have a very full day planned for tomorrow.
