2018 Japan Adventure Begins

March 2018                      Japan

3/7 – Our journey begins with a 6 am flight out of Albuquerque to Los Angeles.  After a lengthy layover we boarded Japan Airlines for the long flight to Tokyo.    

3/8 – It was a long flight, crossing the international dateline so the arrival was the next (Thursday) afternoon at Narita at aprox. 4:30 pm.  An 11+ hour flight and the sun never set.  Smooth sailing through immigration, baggage claim and customs to be met by the travel agent representative with our documentation, subway, train, bus passes, etc....something like 12 sets of train tickets, so we hope we don't lose any of them.  Then onto a small van to be shuttled from the airport to Tokyo in a steady rain.   After checking into our hotel, Shiba Park Hotel, all we could think about was bed!

As you might guess by the number of train tickets, we'll be bouncing around Japan from Tokyo, Mt Fuji area, an excursion to a traditional Japanese Ryokan (guest house) with bath house, temples and shrines in Kyoto, on to Hiroshima to visit the Peace Park and hopefully a 50 mile bike ride on the Shimanami Kaido bike route, then back to Osaka for a couple of days before heading back to Tokyo.

Here is a link to our planned route...