[Day 1], [Day 2], [Day 3], [Day 4], [Day 5]

Our flight left at about 10 am on Sunday morning, Dec 2nd. It was an uneventful. I was a little nervous to be flying. Someone had mentioned that Korean Air had one of the worse safety records. I figured, since they serve all the free alcohol on the flight, I wouldn't feel it anyway, right?

We finally arrived in Tokyo, after about a 11.5 hour flight which went by fairly quickly. First things, first, we had to get some Japanese Yen. Then it was a 1.5 hour train ride from the airport to the city. Vending machines are everywhere in Japan and are unattended. You can buy soda, coffee, cigarettes, even beer.

We arrived in downtown Tokyo around 5:30 in the evening. Tam hooked us up at the Century Hyatt in Tokyo. An awesome location, at a great price. We dropped off out stuff and started roaming the local neighborhood. Tokyo is one huge architectural marvel. Absolutely amazing. It is layered, meaning there are many underground walkways beneath the streets. We walked up and down large and small streets.

I was starting to get a little hungry, so some Udon seemed to be in order as it was a little chilly. That posed our first problem, neither of us know Japanese script. At least with Romantic languages, you can kind of figure out the menu, but in Japan, unless the menu was in English or they had the popular plastic displays of food, we were out of luck. Tam had a book of restaurants, but it didn't seem to work very well. So we wandered from restaurant to restaurant, looking at the cuisine. After a couple of hours of looking, we settled at this one restaurant, located on the 1st and 4th floors of this building. Not 1st through 4th, but just the 1st and 4th floors. They had an English menu and we ate some tasty Udon and, of course, I had to sample the beer. My first taste of Sapporo beer. Not a bad lager, but light, like Korean beers such as OB or Hite. Then we wandered around some more. We were starting to get a little tired. We had only been up for over 24 hours straight at that point. I usually don't sleep when I travel abroad because it helps me to adapt more quickly. By the next day I was fine. Click for Image

On to Day 2 of our travels.

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