Tuesday 30th April 2013
Today was looking so promising when we checked out from the Piece Hostel, headed to Ginkakuji to complete our visits to Kyoto’s temples, gardens, shrines and pavilions and then caught our penultimate shinkansen to Tokyo where we hoped we might get to travel at a world record speed. Continue reading A slow start to Tokyo
Tuesday 23rd / Wednesday 24th April
It turns out that BA’s Tuesday lunchtime flights to Tokyo are very quiet. No idea whether that’s always the case but it was for us. For an 11.5 hour flight it was remarkably smooth – I don’t think we had any turbulence at all!
We both managed a little bit of sleep – but not enough given that after landing in Tokyo it would take us another 9 hours of travelling to get to Hiroshima.
We got through immigration fine, and our bags were waiting for us on the carousel, but as soon as we entered Japan proper our ‘money-saving’ schemes caught up with us. Continue reading Arriving in Japan