Your reaction when you first land(ed) in Japan?

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

If you're flying BA from LHR, I think you use T2, which is a far longer corridor, unless you get a gate close to the center! Yours is a 09:05 arrival, right?

More like 9:30am but otherwise about right. lol. It's ok, i'm used to trawling around the horrors of Gatwick and Dublin airports. :/ You know, where it's about a half-hour hike from check in to your departure lounge?

[JohnBraden]

I think yours arrives at gate 72.... And O'Hare is not walk in the park either! There's a tram between terminals though....

[tokusatsufan]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

And here I thought it was only your head that was in the clouds....

or are you talking about some other part of your anatomy? ewww

You're just taking it too far,and not even in a funny way.

[GoNative]

I thought it was funny. And it's Bobby who continually takes it too far with his nonsensical, idiotic bleatings.

[samokan]

Originally Posted by Umihito

It was really cold there in summer too surprisingly! Maybe I just got there on a bad week, but it was like UK temperatures! lol

Oh? Trains in general or Japanese trains? I must say I have an interest in all things transport. Mostly airlines and aircraft, but trains come in a close second. If I had the money I'd love to have one of those huge detailed train sets in my attic.

I think trains in general. I just love riding trains, well here in Japan though. I have not tried from other countries yet.

Originally Posted by Umihito

Hehe, me too. Only this time round I couldn't shake off how perverted and porn-filled it was lol

LOL.. high school girls in short skirts , I guess guys would just love them

[rizu]

i was 16 y.o by myself in narita. i needed to go to the bathroom. i saw the toilets in the ground and laughed for five minutes straight. i'd known about them before i left the states but seeing it was funny. that was the only serious reaction to anything from there on out.

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by rizu

i was 16 y.o by myself in narita. i needed to go to the bathroom. i saw the toilets in the ground and laughed for five minutes straight. i'd known about them before i left the states but seeing it was funny. that was the only serious reaction to anything from there on out.

I surely hope there was western types as well! Even the earliest time I was there, in 1989, they had western ones. Of course they did, but it must have been a sight to see in person!

[godwine]

Originally Posted by samokan

I think trains in general. I just love riding trains, well here in Japan though. I have not tried from other countries yet.

I LOVE japanese trains, highly efficient comparing to what we have here in toronto.... what we have is just plain garbage..

Even my license plate spells "Yamanote", with a frame that say

神田 <----東京---->有楽町

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by godwine

I LOVE japanese trains, highly efficient comparing to what we have here in toronto.... what we have is just plain garbage..

Even my license plate spells "Yamanote", with a frame that say

神田 <----東京---->有楽町

Love that! I also love that the Japanese know the love of their trains and sell all sorts of things with train themes. My Yamanote Line towels, keychains, eki-melo keychains, etc are piling up. I will get more items when I go back. Same goes for the Shinkansen and regular trains. I can't get enough of them!

[godwine]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

Love that! I also love that the Japanese know the love of their trains and sell all sorts of things with train themes. My Yamanote Line towels, keychains, eki-melo keychains, etc are piling up. I will get more items when I go back. Same goes for the Shinkansen and regular trains. I can't get enough of them!

Can't agree more. As indicated in another thread, I will be building a mini tokyo once i moved... got the train set and some buildings already

I too will probably spend a good chunk of my time shopping at different train store and the Saitama railway museum when i return

So I suppose my reaction is just happy.. because I get to go back.. but if i really count the very first time when I was a kid, I was more scared than anything, but I was only 7 at the time