The first day of our Japan adventure starts with the relatively long flight to Narita Airport which serves the Tokyo area even though it is quite far away (60 km). The flight goes without a hitch, so we have time to be annoyed minor inconveniences like the average food and insufficient seat space for such a long flight.
From the airport we have to take the shuttle bus to our hotel in Narita proper. As the buses come and go we have some trouble identifying to which hotel they belong as some have everything written only in Japanese however luckily the bus drivers always come out with a sign in English so we find our bus and off to the hotel we go.
After checking in we go to our room which as we will see throughout Japan is of much smaller size than the ones we are accustomed too in the US and Europe. There is barely enough place to set our luggage but else the room is fully featured with everything needed including a refrigerator. What we need is something to put into it as we are hungry so we go outside trying to find a supermarket where we can buy some food.
But not before having our first encounter with a space toilet or super toilet that we really start enjoying during our trip and even buy for our house after returning home.
Right across the street from the hotel is a supermarket but to get there is a bit complicated as we have to use an overpass to the nearby railroad station in order to cross the street. As we will notice during our trip many passages are not really old people/handicap friendly as there are no elevators or escalators. We have fun in the supermarket buying things at random as we cannot understand what they are but most of them are obvious and we want to try as many different things as possible. Still as we do not have yet a car we restrict ourselves to items that we can consume till next day and then plan on buying stuff from the next supermarket.
In the morning we enjoy the view from our hotel room and eat breakfast from our provisions before starting an early walk to the major tourist attraction in Narita the Naritasan Temple. We pass again through the railway station using the railway overpass but now we descent on the other side of the station and continue down the main shopping road enjoying the views of the hotel along the way.
