During my first two days in Tokyo, the rain continued to come down hard and it made walking outside rather challenging. So what do you do when it is pouring during your time in Tokyo? You walk around and take pictures of Tokyo streets with its many people carrying bright …
The Ascott Marunouchi is just a quick 10 minute walk from Tokyo Station, one of the main termini for the Narita Express. The hotel actually occupies the 22nd to 29th floors of the Otemachi highrise building in a very busy business district. I chose to stay here after my plan …
After disembarking in Tokyo, it took us more than an hour to clear immigration, collect our luggage, and proceed to the train station to catch the Narita Express. I should note here that the JR Pass (Japan Travel Pass) is valid for travel on the Narita Express (NEX). However since …
Cathay Pacific used to operate its 747 on flights to Tokyo-Haneda and Narita featuring a very unique first class product at the nose of the plane. Unfortunately the product has since been retired, but the seat itself isn’t all that different from the 777 First Class they offer on the flight …
The Japan Airlines First Class Lounge is just past security, up a pair of escalators in Terminal 2 and is available to JAL first class passengers, oneworld emerald members, and oneworld first class passengers. We were eligible to visit the lounge because of our connecting flight to Hong Kong on …
Sasidhar and I flew Japan Airlines when US Airways was doing the 120,000 mile first class roundtrip tickets. I actually finished this trip report a while back, but lost all of my data when we switched servers a little more than a year ago.
Tokyo Station is one of two major train stations in the Japanese capital and the center for the Shikansen high speed (aka bullet) rail lines. Commissioned in 1889, and completed in 1914, Tokyo Station is the busiest station in Japan in terms of total volume of trains (over 3000 trains …
