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?

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

Is it worth the visit? I was going to combine it with the Bandai museum in Mibu, perhaps, and make it a day thing. Sometimes the websites aren't to descriptive or they actually make it sound better than it really is. If you've been there, is it worth it?

There were haha, but the stall I went into happened to be a traditional one. This was 2005 when I went for the first time. I had to get used to them though cause my high school only had western style toilets in the gym, which was across campus and i was on the third floor.

There are things in the souvenir store that you can't get anywhere else... they have a simulator that was fun for about 2 minutes.. a lot of history and technical information about different rail way system.

I would go again just for the souvenir store. The rest will be cool if you've never been, food and drink is bloody expensive there....

As with everywhere! Thanks! I'll pay them a visit!

They even got musuem of them. I also love the Kansai, Prepaid Collectible train Cards. I did not find them much in Tokyo though.

Besides the prepaid cards, I have not started collecting any train collectible though.

My new goal now is to get on the new Shinkansen to Aomori/Hokkaido. It has a business class seat on it:eek: But most of all, I still love riding the local trains :):rheart:

opps.. off topic

Let your emotions run wild and weep freely my friend!! :)

It must be something so wonderful that you will never forget in your life!

Dude, you just responded to a spambot!

You know it's sad when the only users who agree with you are automated computer programs.

LOL on that one!

Hohoo! Everywhere is really expensive! Trust me,come to Britain,you will not say that! There has to be not many places get ripped off as badly as us! Good job we never joined the Euro.

What I meant was that most museums and attractions inflate their snacks and beverages at their cafeterias, etc....

I went to Japan in the summer, and even though my destination was Osaka, I technically first touched the ground in Tokyo. Oh my god, before I even got off the plane, I could feel the climate changing; my hair felt welt and my clothes started sticking to my skin. But I was still extremely excited, however not the extent that I threw myself onto the ground and started praising God I was in Japan.

My next thought was, "huh, these bathrooms are rather peculiar."