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4th (Mon)
Jan 2010

[day1] JL717 Narita to Bangkok

JALFirst Class Check in CounterThe limousine bus drove me to Narita Airport along the Tokyo high way at dawn. As it was a holiday season, I was worried about the traffic condition but the early morning on New Year eve doesn't cause any traffic jams and the bus arrived at Narita Airport Terminal 2 before 7 o'clock. Besides, few people were there and only a couple of them were waiting in front of the check in counters which hadn't opened yet. No sooner had I joined them than the counter opened and I started checking in.

Check in

JAL first class counter in Narita was indeed just a ordinary counter. While I heard some international airports have services which let customers sit on soft sofas and process the ticket, this time doesn't vary with the usual economy class counters. Well, it was only a short process to leave my luggage and check the passports and tickets and doesn't take long anyway. Incidentally, my check-in luggage had 23KG weight including the carry-on luggage of the laptop and the camera equipment, the total weight of my luggage was almost 30KG. I'm wondering how this figure will change hereafter. Actually as part of my luggage consists of souvenirs, the bag should become lighter as I give out these gifts.

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3rd (Sun)
Jan 2010

[day1] airport limousine

At 5 o'clock in the morning, at the empty lobby in the Park Hyatt, I didn't even feel a sensation for the departure on the round the world trip although I was waiting for the limousine bus for the airport holding a huge backpack. In the dark before the dawn, I just left a word 'See you.' and stepped onto the bus. I had known the fact that I'm leaving for far abroad but the farewell was simple as if we had promised to meet again the next day.

Maybe my feelings toward the idea of farewell were distorted due to the international student life in Australia. During the days when I was studying on the language course, we had a lot of farewell parties as students came and graduated every week and always said 'Good bye.', 'See you again.', and 'Keep in touch.' I’d wept often at first, however as time went by and the farewells became a weekly routine, tears seldom dropped from my eyes.

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31st (Thu)
Dec 2009

[day0] Park Hyatt Tokyo

Park Hyatt Tokyo Since the first flight left Narita Airport in the morning and the distance between Shizuoka which is my home town and the airport is too long to make a direct trip on the day, I decided to stay at the Park Hyatt Tokyo as this has long been a dream of mine. It's much easier and safer to take an airport limousine bus as it takes me to the airport terminal directly and in case I overslept the hotel staff would shake me out of the bed. Incidentally, the airport limousine is not for hotel users only. Maybe you can use it someday. I can certainly recommend using it.

I have been longing to stay at this Park Hyatt Tokyo with someone special for more than 5 years. Surprisingly, one of my sisters got a job there some years ago and its restaurants became much more accessible than before but staying still seemed out of my league. Nevertheless, this is the last chance for the next year and staying there would match the concept of this trip of going to various sorts of places. Finally, I made up my mind to book a normal deluxe type room with a rack rate as there is no discount available for the holiday season.

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