Okinawa Day #1

I went to Okinawa with Emily, John, Andra, Tiffany, and Mieko. We left on Monday morning to the Kansai airport around 10 in the morning. I over packed by a lot and my shoulder hurt walking with my duffel bag. Taking the train was VERY expensive for usual train costs here. I prob. spent 20$ to get to and from the airport. We took the limited express trains, and got there at about an hour or so later. We chilled in the check in area waiting to pick up our tickets. When we got in the terminal we just waited around at the gate. Japanese domestic flights have the nicest security. Didn't have to take off my shoes, didn't have to take off my sweater, very fast and convenient. We took a JAL flight, and the snack they gave us was this slice of hard Italian-type bread that was dipped in white chocolate... MMMMMMMmmmm! I loved it. The flight was a little less than two hours there (took less no the return trip).

We took Okinawa's monorail to our hotel. Okinawa doesn't have trains, just a single monorail system and buses. (We were soon to find out that taking the bus in Okinawa would deplete our funds). We walked about 5 minutes to our hotel. It wasn't the nicest hotel, but it had great access to the monorail and good restaurants around it.. and for the price we all paid it was very good. We got three hotel rooms. Mieko and I shared a room. We survived off of convenience store food the first night.