Sat 3rd May – Tokyo (Haneda) to Sydney

DW:

This is the last blog post for this trip. Later today we will have landed back in Sydney. We have an early-ish flight (8:30), so just got up and went to the airport.

We are in terminal 2 which is definitely the dud of the terminals. There are only a handful of shops and restaurants and not the sensory overload I am hoping to fill my time before boarding with.

I managed to nearly perfectly convert and spend our remaining yen. I only have a pesky 36 JPY left. After unexpectedly finding 30 more in a vending machine change slot someone else didn’t collect I am tempted to go through other vending machines, but decide against it.

DW: Unfortunately we are not in the R2-D2 themed 787. I look forward to seeing if the awful movie selection from the way here has been updated with slightly more recent awful movies.

DW: We also finally saw Mt Fuji. The final day was very clear, presumably the rain helped to clear all the haze away. I try to convince Caitlin to look at it out the window. Her desire to see the big mountain overcomes her crippling fear, but only just and she steals a quick glance. Later she claims to not really remember seeing it.

Categories:Japan 2025

Cait

Dad says:

May 3, 2025 at 1:03 am

Declan, thanks for doing the blog and looking after Caitlin on the flights.

Did you enjoy your holiday.

Caitlin, look forward to a phone catch up sometime through the week.
Cait says:

May 5, 2025 at 8:14 am

Declan was very kind on flights.

Thanks for being a loyal reader Dad!
Dek says:

May 24, 2025 at 11:10 am

If you want to see someone else’s Japan trip equivalent from the 1980s checkout the documentary Tokyo-Ga. It reminded us of just walking around and seeing random things and that being a day in itself.

https://beamafilm.com/catalogue-product/tokyo-ga

Your local library may likely have a free subscription to Beamafilm you can use. Both the Blue Mountains and Randwick did.