Big in Japan 2005 - Day 7
Finally our last day in Japan. It feels kinda sad to leave this wonderfull place. Of course, the mood affecting my partner and I is mostly the dreaded feeling of going back to our monotonous working life. ..heh...We took picture at the Japanese garden in the hotel. We are having mochi ice cream, which costs only 150 yen here. Back home, it can easily cost up to SGD$3+, so Bon Appetit even though we just had our breakfast( burp). As our flight is 18:00 hours, we visited the Aeon Shopping mall for our last chance to pickup last-mintue gifts. Nothing so special about this place, but it gave me a chance to checkout their famous phones upfront and close. They really felt heavy and can be quite bulky but I guess that is of little concern for the functionality that was placed into the phones . A lot of their entry level phones are already having camera functionalities, Internet accesses, etc and subscribers on 2 years bond can purchase them for 1 yen only. Unlike Singapore, japanese handphone do not come with sim card.

Finally arrived at the Narita airport (aka Tokyo airport) in the afternoon. The airport was built to ease the traffic at Tokyo's other airport. It was said the Government has a lot of time negotiating for this airport to be built. After much negotiation, the Government has to agree that there will be no midnight flights to this airport and also there must be a lot of security put up around the airport for the safety of Narita's residents. As such, this airport has a rather strict custom. Spent the last few minutes shopping around the airport and its finally time to head home. We will miss you Japan, Sayonara, we hope to visit you again.