Welcome to the big bad city

After a great 4 months of travelling around in Southeast Asia it was time to head to Japan for a year of working, living and being amazed!

I left Bali on the 2 March to Jakarta for my flight to Japan. Lucky for us the plane was delayed for 4hrs so we got to freeze in the airport while waiting but at least they fed us. Then it was off to Beijing for my connecting flight. Strangly we had a stop over before Beijing where they made everyone get off the plane and clear customs. It was quite fun to explain that the reason I didn't have a chinese visa was because I was flying on to Japan, but luckly they worked out what I meant eventually. Then it was back to the same plane and a long delay on the ground due to bad weather. Finally got to Beijing and headed off to my connecting flight that Air China had thankfully rebooked for me as we arrived 4hr after my connection was meant to happen.
Eventually I arrived in Tokyo on the 3 March to find that because of all the changes and delays my luggage had not arrived with me. Very glad I asked them if I could claim renumeration if I had to buy essentials as they gave me 5000yen then and there. They also found out how I could get into Tokyo as of course by then it was 11:45pm and I had missed the last cheap train into the city centre. So I go the bus in and then had to get a taxi to my hostel - so the 5000yen came in very handy. Got to the hostel at 1:30am and was just in time to get my room key as the night staff went off shift at 2am and I would have been stuck out in the cold! But it all worked out and I got to finally to go to sleep after being awake for 42hrs.

Since then quite a few things have happened and I will fill you all in on that next time. It has been a long day of writting updates, but really it needed to be done :)

Here is to the year ahead. Cheers!