I'm blogging my vacation mostly so my wife, who couldn't come along, can share the experience.
Plane trip was uneventful, the seat next to me had a middle aged Japanese woman in it for about as long as was required, before she fled to find another seat. More room for me, and I used it. Got a special meal (Asian Vegetarian, although I am neither) and that worked out quite well, both meals were pretty tasty. Long flight, glad I brough both batteries for the Tablet PC and a stack of Economists.
Arrived with no real problems, my brother met me at the airport and we took the train into Tokyo. We had ramen at a place in Shinagawa, very very tasty. We then headed to Roppongi to the Train Bar and spent from around 8pm to 4am drinking. A lot. I don't drink much anymore, so this was going from basically 0 to marathon pace instantly after having been up from too little sleep and a plane trip.
All in all I had been up about 28 hours by the time my head actually hit the pillow in the hotel, so I did my long past drinking days proud. Woke up at 8:30ish still pretty drunk, drank more water and tried to get back to sleep but wasn't too successful.
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