I've got to say, straight away, that Japan completely blows us away. We start in Tokyo, arriving at Narita airport and being whisked into the centre of the city on a lightening fast express train. I thought hitting the Tokyo subway, tired and loaded with backpacks would be an overwhelming introduction, but it's fine...with signs in Japanese & Roman characters, and a lovely polite sounding lady announcing all stops in English, it's easy to navigate our way to our hostel, Asakusa Smile. In fact from the minute we boarded the Japan Airlines flight everything goes smoothly. There is really no comparison to our recent awful experience with American Airlines...JAL is fantastic and the flight glides by as we're pampered with good food, bloody good Bloody Mary's and more movies than we can fit into 14hrs. A
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