T&J Travels #10: Japan 2018 (Part 15)

+ Odaiba + 

For our last day we decided to go to Odaiba first. Our flight is still at 8 PM and we don't know it at that time but thought it was a good idea to be further away from Narita Airport.

Odaiba is a tech island and is really modern. I was planning to see more of the island like do the ferris wheel or see the the small liberty statue but we found out there is not much time. We did get to see what we came for here-- the Gundam Unicorn! Our timing was also perfect because we only had to wait for a small time for the changing to Destruct  mode. 

For lunch we headed over to Hokuriku Toyama Kaiten Sushi Premium. It's a restaurant we found on the top floor that has a sushi train. Come to think of it we've been here for a long time yet have not eaten any sushi. The experience was not as fluid as I expected, our plates come late, sometimes wrong. Even our bill was incorrect! One thing that I noticed though is that the restaurant doesn't look like it was run by any Japanese. They all seemed to be foreigners too. Come to think of it, Diver City felt like most of the people there are either Koreans or Chinese. There was even a time Reagan and I accidentally separated ways that I panicked that I lost his face in a sea of people who looked like him. 

+ Amazing Race +

When we got back from Odaiba our train off loaded us away from where we came the first time. This proved extremely stressful because we could not find the locker where we left all of our things and we spent a whole lot of time going back and forth finding it. When we found it FINALLY after asking all of the train people we see, we then got ourselves to a different platform and had missed our train in a minute or two when we found the correct one. We had to spend grueling minutes of waiting for the next train to come. 

Apparently when you missed your original reserved train, you could take the next one but you had to find a free seat. Our original seats were already taken plus the first ones we chose were already booked by other people too. We moved alright and was lucky that we didn't get to stand again. This is what travelling on an off peak means. If the train was packed we will be stuck standing the entire trip for an entire hour and a half.

The Narita bound train have informative screens that show the flights and while Reagan was sleeping I could feel myself almost faint looking at it and seeing that ours wasn't late. As soon as we got to Narita we were running with 2 rolling luggage and 2 hand carry each. Of all the times we finally didn't get lost! When we reached the check in area we were the last ones there. We are already pressed for time but we had to spend a few minutes more to pay for our additional luggage (at least we have more yen left) and with no complaints from us followed the instruction that we had to leave the box the One Piece whale my sister made me buy. 

The boarding gate is at the edge of the terminal that need to run some more! We were only able to buy a few souvenirs and have barely finished our water bottle when it was already boarding time. I remembered exhaling in satisfaction as we sat, knowing that even after everything we made it. Back at the train I was really afraid that we need to book another flight. I was already calculating how much we need to pay just to get back to Manila and it was more than what we paid for our round trip tickets. Getting there literally in the nick of time was a once in a lifetime experience I WOULD NOT WANT TO REPLICATE AGAIN. I do not want to try my luck next time. And oh, the next time I'm in Japan I would like to map that Tokyo Station on my head so we'd never get lost.