Good Morning Japan

So we are back to within 1 hour of Australian time, didn't get much sleep last night but I did rest so that's good,  somehow even a flatbed seat this time just didn't cut the mustard, maybe it was because we had that little wall between us.

It took about 11 hours to fly and we arriving 8 am 18th July into Japan. As much as I tried I just couldn't get to sleep, something that is alway fairly easy for me oh well it will be a long day and a early night then ready for our next adventure tomorrow.

Sandy's Japanese friend Hiroko who Sandy meet when she was 7 and Hiriko was a 17 year old rotary exchange student of Sandy's grandmother & her husband Ken now in their early 60's are retired and have a house in the country and as it is cooler up in the mountains they want to take us there away for the heat of the Yokahama City also suffering under the heatwave conditions. Already 28 deg here and expecting mid 30's and humid also, fantastic ... can't wait for that one!!!. That will teach us for staying away so long, spring is now long over and summer that was a month late is here and here with a bang.

We hop a bus, a beautifully air conditioned one from Narita Airport to Yokohama City for ¥7,000.00 so about $70 Aus it will take about 1.5 hours for the 100km trip and we will skirt Tokyo which is 60 km southwest from the airport. Today the driver has just informed us that there is traffic conjunction on the freeway so expect it to take 2 hours and with his many apologies. Japanese people are so polite and even as we were leaving the terminal the bus staff that put our luggage under the bus stood back and lined up and all bowed as we departed. That's right I remember from our last trip, everyone seams to do all day is lots of bowing so must get that back into practice also. Our trip on the bus to Yokohama City was on the biggest freeways that I have ever seen, when we were here last we took the train so do dent get to experience the traffic. The roads crisscross under and over and in some place it is a 10 wide highway and it is like this the whole 100 km amazing but could I live in this sort or overpopulation, keep think and seeing things that make me so grateful to be Australia.

We should never take for granted our open space.

We arrive into the bus terminal at Yokohama City and are greeted by Hiroko for the 20 min cab ride to her home. 

5 - 1 Minamikibogaoka, 

Asahi - ku,

Yokohama - shi.

241 - 0824 

Japan 

Now that's an address if ever there was, thank goodness she came to travel in the cab to her place other wise we may be still in a Japanese cab somewhere.