Japan travel: personal experience episode 1

Japan travel: personal experience. Episode 1

On 04.09.09, In Personal, by Ryuichi

Hello everyone!! Finally, after so many years, me and Ryu-chan went to Japan!
It was a wonderful experience. Beyond imagination, even. In the following pages we will tell you about our trip in the mythical country of the rising sun. Stay tuned since it will be an “episode” series with multiple parts.
We’ll tell you all about the things we did and the places we went, with a lot of pictures, to boot! ^^

Japan Travel personal experience

Our trip began as we left Venice on the 20th of August, 2007. Once we arrived at the airport we had to wait in line to check in. An incredible amount of people were barricaded in front of the check-in point of the Alitalia and it was very hard to move forward. After 2 hours of agonizing boredom we were finally about to check-in when two men ahead of us began a dispute about who was first. One of them was of another country so racism, CEE and human rights took a part of the altercation. Our trip really started well, huh… °_°

Once we’d checked in we are finally set free of our heavy bags, and were sure to get them back in Japan.
We went from Venice to Milan in a MCDONNEL DOUGLAS MD-82, from there we reached the Kansai airport of Osaka with a BOEING 777-200.
Our first flyght was awfully late…. Once in Milan we ran for the next airplain, which was also late…. In an elevator we met a couple that was also going to Osaka: they assured us that our luggage was lost due to the late flight and the Alitalia service. We kept hoping and took the airplane.
The Boeing leaving from Milan reached an altitude of 11.000 meters and a speed of 1000Km/h; the outside temperature was of -55°C!
The 12 flight hours was quite good except for some turbulence. Each seat was equipped with a little screen and a remote control to watch movies, listen to music and play games. We also had a Japanese lunch that wasn’t bad, obviously the food we had in Japan was quite better.

Wooooo!!! Here is the picture of the Boeing’s wing I secretly took once it reached it’s top altitude

ala aereo

After 12 hours we could finally see the Japanese coasts!! Finally!!!

cose del giappone

The landing was good and we were finally in Japan!! I couldn’t believe it!!! We just had to take our luggage and go to the hotel to get some rest. We moved to the baggage carousel… and… and…. AAAAHHHHHHH!! Our bags weren’t theeeeere!!! Vanished !!! Just great! Being in Japan witho nothing to dress with…. very bad. We find the lost luggage office and with Japanese and english we managed to make them understand what was going on; we filled some forms and they told us they would let us know about our bags when they found anything.

After a brief trip we reached Kyoto. It’s such a wonderful city. The streets are all perpendicular each other so it was quite easy to move around. Once we got to the hotel we found that they aready knew of our luggage problem and a lady dressed with a kimono walked with us to our room. There she had a little chit-chat about the Japanese customs and the Ryokan rules: we talked a bit in english and a bit in Japanese. The very kind lady also treated us with a little sweet, so gooods!!! Thought they tasted a bit of cinnamon…. (Ryu knows why I specify… ghe ghe ghe) The room was quite large and we used it to sleep and have breakfast, right: we had room service !!!

stanza ryoukan

After a break we went out to take a look around and eat something. When we come back the room was already set for the night: the futon was very comfortable and the bathroom was also good. There was even a hypertech toilet! Mostly, I apreciated the warmened seat. AAahhh what a unique feeling to sit down and not feel the chilly bite of the plastic… wtew^^”