Day 1 Caught in the rain
After many sleepless nights these two insomniacs were finally going to Japan. We met at the Cairns international airport in a flurry of excitement, it was very stressful as I'd done a Web checkin and we just walked through to customs. Sophie didn't want to use her duty free alcohol allocation so I was able to get presnts for hubstar and sister. After having a blah burger each we boarded and settled in across the aisle from each other. The flight was smooth we enjoyed several movies and after 7 easy hours were landing in rainy Kanzai. We caught the shuttle to the airport. Getting through customs was a breeze and as we'd only brought hand luggage we were soon up at level 2F getting our train tickets to Namba. Sophie took to using it straight away spotting the station before me. We nipped into a teeny Lawsons to get a teeny umbrella ( we thought they'd be practical for storing) bad choice 🤔. Once aboard the rapid express train we relaxed for an hour, we were ...