Saturday, March 13, 2010 After waking up on the plane, I watched a Japanese movie called 笑う警官 (The Laughing Policeman); it was not too bad. After that, I think I may have fallen asleep again for a short while, but at the right time to miss both the second meal and the passing out of the embarkation/debarkation and customs forms. This left me with little choice but to obtain and fill out the forms in the airport. After arriving, since it took a while to get through the immigration line, my luggage was already at the luggage counter instead of the bag claim, so I ended up losing some time waiting at the bag claim even though my bags were no longer there. I then went through customs with no problems. I spent a bit of time finding the second post office in Terminal 2 (the first one I found was closed) to pick up a rental cell phone that I ordered, and then I activated my JR rail pass and took the express into Tokyo. Upon reaching Tokyo, I switched over to the Yamanote line to get to Ueno

So continuing off of the " Long day before Japan ", I'm planning to put up a post for each day of my trip in Japan, with pictures even! Of course I can't reasonably fit all the pictures into a good narrative, so to see them all you're going to have to head to Picasa Web Albums to see all the pictures I wanted to post. Well, with that out of the way, let's begin! Friday, March 12, 2010 So it turns out I was able to sleep for a maybe an hour the night before the flight, so I got a little in. Anyway, safely made it to the airport by taxi, and made it onto my flight without a problem. The flight to Dallas/Forth Worth International (DFW) was uneventful; I'm pretty sure I slept for most of the way. I picked up a banana and a hot dog from a convenience store (hereafter called "conbini") there, and then boarded my flight to Japan. The plane I took from DFW to Japan, a Boeing 777. For once I decided to have some Dramamine to help me with staying n

Today's been a hectic day. After discovering mid-day that the Japan Rail Pass issued to me was not what I had ordered and was for the wrong length of time, I quickly called JTB to get it rectified. They'd exchange it for me, but if I had it delivered, it wouldn't reach me until 2PM tomorrow. Unfortunately, my flight is at 6AM. So I told them I'd get it at their office. Made a rush up to New York City after work, and luckily was able to get my pass exchanged. Wasn't able to catch a train back until 8PM. My plan was once I got back, I'd rush my bags to the airport, check them in, go home, sleep a bit, then go back in the morning to go through security and get on the plane. No such luck. On the train ride back, just 15-20 minutes outside of 30th Street Station, our train hits someone. We are stopped. Luckily they can evacuate onto the next regional train that passes us. Unfortunately, that's an hour later. By the time I get into 30th Street Station, it is no lo