With a big day of travel ahead we arose at 05:30, had breakfast and met up with our friendly and obliging Bunnik driver right on 07:00. We then headed for Seoul’s International airport fifty kilometres away at Incheon.
We arrived at the airport just before our flight had opened for bag-drop but once this was available, we moved through the immigration and security checks with comparative ease.
We found a good coffee shop and then proceeded to gate lounge 267 where we had two hours free to catch up on downloading and labelling photos as well as writing up our blog diary.
Our flight to Osaka was on a Dreamliner B787-10 which left precisely on time at 11:05 and we landed at Osaka’s Kansai airport ninety minutes later.
Dreamliner B787-10 plane for our flight from Seoul to Osaka
Our flight from Seoul to Osaka
With minimal problems and advice from a few airport staff we managed to complete all the passport, quarantine and related arrival checks and were at our Hotel Nikko Kansai by 14:00. We couldn’t check into our room until 15:00 so we relaxed in the hotel lounge and did some more homework.
We have a three bed hotel room which we’ll share with Marcus tonight but there’s not much space between the three beds so it’s going to be high density living.
Our son Marcus has been on holiday in Japan for the last three days doing interesting things in Kyoto like samurai sword fighting, sumo wrestling and visiting the Yamazaki whisky distillery. It was lovely to meet up with Marcus when he arrived back in Osaka in the late afternoon.
We had our evening meal in a Japanese noodle café and then purchased some cans of beer and went back to our hotel room to relax and wait for Bryce to arrive.