Alan2504

It's now a bit brighter Hoping the weather holds for sailaway!

Unfortunately it doesn't work, as I understand, on Android that are not specifically for the Japanese market, So that's why we went with the physical card plus we were able to get them delivered to home prior to leaving. Similarly we got a Mobal data card delivered to home, We popped that in a cheap TP link WiFi hotspot switched it on when we landed and have had great WiFi on the ride to Yokoyama even through the tunnels and metro 😎

Just a heads-up for future cruisers regarding the welcome suica card, if, as we did, you get these in advance of arrival in Japan, it's worth activating these at JR counters at the airport otherwise if you get a transfer direct to your hotel in Yokohama, as we did you'll need to get to the nearest JR station (Yokohama) to do this, then you can re-load these up at any 7/11 Alternatively use e-suica if you have an i-phone

We managed, despite the weather to get over to the Red Brick Warehouse where my DW browsed the shops, whereas I found a spot at an authentic German beer festival 🍺 VID_20240501_143849.mp4 A nice way to spend sometime on a rainy day

We flew in from Helsinki yesterday to NRT was expecting it to take some time to get through immigration customs etc. I reckon it took from landing to pulling away from the airport less than 30mins! Woke up this morning to a rather soggy Yokohama so our side trip to Kakamura is looking unlikely, see you onboard tomorrow, weather looks much better for sailaway😎