The much anticipated day arrived. We boarded Qantas flight QF061 at 10.45am on our way to Tokyo, the first day of a 70 day adventure, courtesy of Neil's long service leave and the sale of a house in New Zealand.
The flight, the service and the aircraft were all unexpectedly excellent, not having flown Qantas for many years because of past reported safety and customer service issues with the airline.
After nine hours, two bottles of Sauvignon Blanc, two nice meals, 'Wild' and 'Easy Rider' watched through in-flight entertainment, we landed in Narita, only one hour behind Brisbane time.
The weather was, and continued to be, humid, and made our negotiation of the Tokyo metro system rather uncomfortable, not helped by the fact that we were wearing a lot of our clothes and wheeling suitcases. Fortunately we had decided that cabin baggage was the way to go, and despite actually putting it through into the hold anyway, it made our trip easier than it would have been.
Two hours after exiting the airport we found Nishiarai and the Emblem Hostel and had just enough time (being 10pm) to buy prepackaged microwave meals from the nearby Aeon supermarket.
The room was tiny with bunks, but we've done that before and survived. The price was right, and the hostel clean and friendly.
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