Gozilla: The Search is On

Plane Ride - I have never seen more people do calisthenics on a flight. Japanese husband and wife teams doing leg lifts and hamstring stetches together, lots of strange deep knee bend aisle walkers and even the toddlers were getting in to it. I thought I was in 'Gung Ho.' Besides that entertainment, the Check-in Agent was kind enough to switch me to the Holy Grail of International Seats(as far as Coach Seats go...ahem) - the Window Exit row seat. Where I have enough room to stretch out my lanky legs and don't have to worry about waking up drooling on the Japanese guy next to me if I was in the middle. This seat is second only to the extremely rare empty center row but I don't think there was a single empty seat on the flight. With this window exit row seat the flight wasn't actually that bad. Decent food and about 45 minutes of total sleep.

Arrival - after disembarking I quickly realized that while I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my boss looks like, apparently he has a million clones over here. And they're all exactly his height. After a small fright, I eventually found him at the luggage conveyor and we were off to a blitzkrieg of train rides across Tokyo. From what I could see from the train windows it seems the reason they are all so small over here is so they can fit more people into the city. Ads are on everything and there's a cool mix of the old tiled roof buildings with modern skyscrapers.

Atsugi and Hotel - We're staying in Atsugi tonight so we can go evaluate the machine tomorrow at the Hitachi Tool Dept (it is a business trip). The hotel rooms is of course small with some crazy things inside. The bed is about 4.5' long, there's a flashlight next to it, slippers by the wall, and the bathroom is unreal. The shower is controlled by the sink valves and the toilet has a strange bidee' looking contraption that I'm still a little nervous of.