Saturday, December 22, 2012

Homeward Bound


A taxi ride to the bus terminal at Yonago Station:  15 minutes.
A night bus to Hamamatsu-cho Bus Terminal in Tokyo:  10 hours.
A brief subway ride to Tokyo Station:  8 minutes.
A ride along the JR Line to Narita Airport:  just over 1 hour.
An All Nippon Airways flight to Washington DC:  12 hours and 30 minutes.
A two-hour-and-forty-five-minute layover:  2 hours and 45 minutes.
A fifty-eight-minute flight to Philadelphia:  58 minutes.
And finally, a one-hour drive along the Atlantic City Expressway:  1 hour.

From door to door, just over 28 hours and 36 minutes.  It’s quite a journey, but just imagine how long it would have taken 100 years ago…  I don’t think I would have ever left the house.

2 comments:

  1. Did you get to do anything with the 2.5 layover in DC?

    (That's pretty good time across the Pacific. I thought it was 12 hours just to get to LA from Narita.)

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  2. I didn't leave the airport but I did get to eat some Buffalo wings in DC - something I often crave in Japan but can't get.

    The flight sure didn't feel short, but we flew up over Anchorage so it makes the trip a little shorter.

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