Dec18 - to Sendai

The morning alarm went off at 4:30 and again at 4:35am. So after a restful 4 hours sleep we left our brief hotel stay and went downstairs to catch the 5:10am hotel shuttle. We had to head to terminal 1 as we needed to exchange our train passes at a JR West machine to use later in our trip. At least there was no line at 5:30am.

From here we headed to the terminal2 shuttle and hopped straight onto a bus to T2. Check-in and bag drop were no lines and done quickly. Lawsons was our breakfast stop with the usual convience store food. Just after 6am we went through security (all had to take off our hiking boots) and went straight through. At 6:30am we were sitting at the gate for our 7am flight to Sendai.

8:1am we landed, grabbed our checked bag pretty quickly. Then walked to the train station, we stopped and took a few photos, then passed through the gate, only to miss the train by seconds. A half hour wait was needed for the next train at 9:07am.

We then headed to our hotel to drop off our bags. It was very cool in Sendai, the wind was brisk to say the least. After this it was back to the station to the tourism office to find out about the bus we want to take on Saturday. Then on our walk to the bus station we stopped at the Pokemon store to get a Japan exclusive pikachu, and also a snack at the place we first had Taiyaki. Then Jason hit up the 7-11 to find food he could eat, then we headed back to the hotel to stop somewhere warm.

After this we headed back out to go to daiso to get some things for Dale. Then killed some time looking in Loft, before grabbing a snack and heading back to the hotel at 2pm. We sat around resting until 3pm check-in where the girls rested/napped, while the boys had their room. At 5pm we dressed warmly and headed out to dinner at CoCo curry where Jason could get a gluten free curry.

After dinner we walked along the covered shopping streets, stopping here and there, then arriving at the Sendai pageant of starlight. We had to wait 15mins before the lights were turned on. It did look spectacular. Then we headed back to the hotel for a well deserved soak in the tub and a good sleep.Read more