Flying out to Tokyo and meeting Alex

We left home at about 7.45am this morning to get the bus to Heathrow from where we had a short flight to Paris CDG and then a long haul to Tokyo Haneda airport.  The long haul was 12 hours but Air France did a pretty good job of making it comfortable.  We arrived in Tokyo just before noon on Sunday but with the 9 hour time difference that's 3am back home.

We had a fairly easy day and met an old work colleague who has moved to Tokyo to be an English teacher.  We went to an amazing little restaurant that has a machine at the door where you make your food choices, buy a ticket then hand it to the staff and take a seat.  The machine had not a word of English on it so I was glad Alex knew what the Japanese words for "beer" and "ramen" were.

We got to bed around 9pm slept pretty well after a dose of melatonin to reset the body clock.