D17 - The journey home

We were woken by our 4:30am alarm. We left the hotel room at 5am and waited about 5:15 minutes until check in opened at 5:30. We were first in the line, then first through security and first at the gate. We boarded just after 7am, but did not push back from the gate until 7:50am.

The flight was uneventful, and we landed around 9am. After getting bags, our mission was to stow them for the day. We asked at Yamote in terminal 3, he pointed us towards the ski lockers by the entrance door. We went there and found many ski lockers free - hurrah. Another win was that we could fit both ski bags, and 3x carry-on wheelies in the locker or 1,000yen. We stashed our rolling duffle and backpacks in another. 500yen for 6hrs, then it will be more. Next up was food as we hadn't had breakfast, so we hit up the Lawsons and got some food.

On our way out we saw the board still had the Brisbane flight, so we asked about it and were told they put on another Brisbane flight to cope with those cyclone effected. We were told to try to get moved online. So we sat on a Jetstar chat for about an hour, only to find out that it can only be done at the airport in person, and could not happen until check in opens. So fingers crossed we won't have to fly through Cairns and can get home earlier.

At 11:30 we left the airport headed for Narita town, only one stop away and about 10mins. We walked to the Naritasan Shinshio-ji temple for a look around. We then continued onto the Naritasan Park out behind it and had a traipse around. This was a lovely area, cherry blossoms were just starting to bloom.

The son was begging for Taiyaki, so we found a shop that had some, cooked fresh for us, the best kind. They also sold ice cream, so who could resist as it is our 19th wedding anniversary we indulged in some cheesecake flavour ice cream. It was delicious. We walked back up the old street Omotosando and purchased a decorative plate and shirt.

The 2:30 train back to airport was what we took. Then we just had to wait until a check in counter opened to see if we could get our flight moved. So we grabbed out bags from the lockers (we were 20mins over the 6hr one, so had to pay an extra 600yen), and waited until 4:30pm, and asked the first attendant we saw, all in it took a lot of hmm and head scratching and some changing of people helping. But we got moved to the direct Brisbane flight after about an hours of them trying to make it happen. (The extra flight was listed as suspended, so they couldn't add people to it until it's status change). We were given a slip of paper and told to come back at 7pm for check in to the new flight.

So we went and had our last Japanese dinner, and of course ice-cream. Then at 6:30pm we went and lined up yet again. At 7pm we were let through to the counter as we couldn't self serve, and the original lady helped us, gave us boarding passes and took our bags. Wahoo.

So we passes through security and immigration and are waiting to board our flight that leaves at 10pm arriving in Brisbane at 7:50am tomorrow.En savoir plus