Day 3 - Tokyo to Kobe

On the trains I was AMAZED at how things had changed since I was last here. On the JR trains, there are now announcements in Japanese AND English, and a couple of digital displays above the doors explaining what the next station was. I was really surprised...

N and I trained to Shinjuku to tackle Takashimaya and Tokyu Hands. I knew exactly where that was and how to get there as if I was just there yesterday. The only thing that had changed was that the construction on the road was finished, leaving a nice black and even asphalt.

We spent the afternoon bugging salespeople and sneaking video and photo. I'm surprised we didn't get caught!

Time flew so quickly that we realized we had to rush to the airport! It was almost 6pm and we had 1 hour to train to Shinagawa, pick up our laptops from the lockers, then train to Hamamatsuchou, transfer to the monorail to Haneda, pick up our luggage at Takyubin, then rush to the check-in counters in ... 1 hour :P It took 15 minutes to get to Shinagawa so we were in a bit of panic (hahahahaha)... We were 2 girls running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

We made it to the check-in counter (after nearly knocking a kid down with his grandma) at 7:15pm. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 7:55pm. We had 20 minutes to eat our Beef Curry, then rushed to the security gate. We were the last ones to board the plane! :P

An hour later we were in Osaka Kansai. We grabbed our luggage and rushed outside to take Bus 6 to San-no-miya. The baggage guy took our luggage, gave us our baggage claim ticket, and we boarded the bus in a rush, not realizing we hadn't paid for our boarding tickets yet!

The driver rejected us and waved for us to go back and buy a ticket! So we ran from the bus to the ticket machine, paid 1800 yen each, and ran onto the bus again!

An hour later we arrived in San-no-miya, hailed a taxi and got to our hotel at almost 11pm.

What an adventure! ;)