Going to Japan: Part 2

After having tried to sleep for 3 hours, I gave up. Maybe if I'd have had three seats to myself I'd have managed... probably not.

Two seats, however, meant I had dual screens, and as I was watching the external camera view, another plane flew directly beneath us in the opposite direction leaving a vapour trail. That was pretty cool. I also watched the sunrise.

Another ocha, and an orange juice followed, before I watched "Hostage". Then after that I watched "Monster-in-law" starring Jennifer Lopez, for want of something to do. It was pretty dire.

Brendan came to sit next to me as he didn't want to disturb the sleeping baby next to him by turning on his light, though not soon after they turned the cabin lights back on.

More hot towels and orange juice preceded breakfast at about noon... so about the normal time I have it!

• Morning roll (kind of a mini-croissant), with butter and marmalade.
• Egg Rice & Vegetable Omelette with Kassler ham, baked beans, and mushrooms.
• Strawberry yoghurt.
• Red and orange oranges, with lychees.

I had some more ocha and an apple juice to go with it, though I left most of it.

Brendan was trying to learn some hiragana, and the flight attendant, Ijichi, asked us if we were studying japanese, and for how long. We were given "disembarkation cards for foreigners" to fill out, so Brendan returned to his seat to do that. Ijichi came back round later and gave Brendan and I a kid's toy wind-up plane, which was cool, though hopefully she doesn't think we're children.

The plane touched town at 7.01am BST (3.01pm local time), at Osaka Kansai International Airport on runway 24.