Tokyo Travels Part 01: Almost Home

View from the Conrad Tokyo Room 3602

As I write this, I'm watching a KLM 747 taxi across the tarmac at LAX.  I love their blue paint job. We've got a great view from the AS Boardroom, and are more than halfway though a 6 hour layover. Another 970 miles or so and we'll be home.

The GF and I just flew back from a great trip to Tokyo.  It's an amazing place with some fantastic people and great energy.  On top of that, for a city of 12 million people, it is remarkably clean and safe. In the coming weeks, I'll share more details and stories.

Here are some numbers from the trip:

• Ticket cost: 250,000 AS miles
• Photos and videos: 22.5GB
• ORD Flight delay: 3 hours
• Trip length: 9 days
• Cameras lost: 1
• Cameras found: 1
• AMEX Fraud alerts triggered: 1
• Nights with room service: 2
• Traffic accidents seen: 0
• Time to deal with NRT Customs: 20 seconds
• Time to deal with LAX Customs: 8 seconds
• Other Passengers in First Class cabin (ORD--> NRT): 4
• Other Passengers in First Class cabin (NRT--> LAX):14
• Train lines ridden: 3
• Schoolgirl Ninjas we saw: 0 (that we know of)
• Weight lost: 05 Lbs
• Trips to McDonalds: 2
• "Squished Penny Machines": 7
• Earliest hotel departure: 4:15 AM for Tsukiji
• Number of people in line ahead of us by 4:45 : 100
• Godzilla sitings: 0
• Stray cat sitings: 1
• CC Lemon Sodas consumed: 6
• Vending machine coffee beverage cans now in checked baggage: 3
• Plush toys acquired (friends for Miles): 7
• Number that are a robot: 1

Statue of Liberty over on Odaiba Island in Tokyo Bay