Traveling to Japan (Day 0) 🇨🇦✈️🇯🇵

Today was a full travel day! ✈️
I met up with my friend to fly to Japan together! We were able to get in the lounge with our credit cards for a quick freshening up! We ended up taking Air Canada direct flight to Haneda airport in Tokyo! Food in Air Canada wasn’t bad and we were even able to get wine! 🍷 After the 13 hr flight, we got off with absolutely no sleep 🥴 (we were exhausted) but our traveling didn’t end there!
We had to hop onto a bullet train (called Shinkansen in Japan) to Osaka to meet up with the rest of our friends! 🥲 I will say, we did end up falling asleep on the train for at least an hour out of the 2.5 hr ride! 🚄
We arrived in Osaka at about 10pm, then had to take a subway from the train station to the subway station near our hotel, which was about 15 mins. The subways here in Japan are so nice! They were clean, the stations have walls and doors built so people don’t jump onto the tracks! 🚊
After we arrived at our subway station, we walked about 5 mins to our hotel and met up with all the girls! But we were starving at this point, so maya and I decided to go to a famous beef bowl restaurant (beef bowls are called Yoshinoya) and it was AMAZING! 🤤
One major thing was that both meals together was only ¥1100 (~$10 CAD)! It was so delicious, the meat was so nicely cooked and they didn’t seem to use that much seasoning, but it didn’t need anything. Miso soup was delicious and the pickled salad a great palate cleanser! 😋
We walked by a 7/11 and ended up buying a few things before heading back to our hotel for a much needed sleep 😴Read more