Day one - plane and train

After a breezy (15min from car to duty free) security check and immigration (though the auto gate wouldn't let B out, thought I was about to travel on my own) we had some breakfast before boarding our flight bound for Narita. While Spider-Man, The Lion King and Logan occupied B, I passed the hours watching documentaries including Orangutan Jungle School. After 9 hours we arrived at Narita airport and walked what felt like 5km to arrivals. We then collected our pocket wifi, got our JR passes, booked our Shinkansen for tomorrow and made it to the NEX train to take us to Tokyo. We are staying for one night at Hotel Karaksa Tokyo Station. For dinner we stopped at 7/11 and I had an onigiri and B had a curry udon soup, yum! We asked at the counter for the soup to be heated and the man led us out behind the counter to the wall of microwaves which I'd totally ignored on the way in and proceeded to put the food in and set the right temperature and time. Feeling super embarrassed an enthusiastic arigato gozaimasu allowed the man to head back to the counter to serve the other people... Ooops.Read more