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My first impression of HND upon touchdown was that it is a large airport. Accordingly, to pass the time I watched three movies on this flight: Top Gun Maverick (liked it good), Bullet Train (liked it haha), and Moonshot (did not like). Hooray! I’ve been told that the best way to overcome jet lag on long international flights is to force yourself to stay awake until you reach what would be considered “bed time” at your destination. For this flight I had an aisle seat way in the back of the plane (an Airbus A330), but fortunately nobody was in the window seat by the time we took off, so I got the whole row to myself for the next 9+ hours. The second leg of my Tokyo-bound flights took me from HNL into HND, or Haneda Airport / Tokyo International Airport. food before continuing west, somewhat reminiscent of how my dad and I grab a “last chance” Runza in Sidney, NE before leaving the state heading west on I-80. I wound up grabbing a quick bite at Burger King as a sort of “last chance” at U.S. When I landed at HNL though, I wanted breakfast, but most places I found are geared toward cocktails and so naturally aren’t open in the morning. I generally prefer red-eye flights so that I can make the most of my time on them-if I’m tired enough I can fall asleep anywhere, and then I don’t remember whether the flight is good or bad when I wake up and land. I took a red-eye flight out of Oakland International Airport, arriving at Honolulu International Airport the next morning. All in all I quite enjoyed my trip, and so this post will be decidedly less technical than usual as I document what I did during that week. I also wanted to meet with a friend in Tokyo whom I hadn’t seen since he moved there prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. My planned purpose of the trip was to see if a market for second-hand Pippin gear exists and if so, if I could bring home any Pippin-related goodies, particularly hardware. Now that individual tourism has opened up a bit in Japan, I finally booked my visit for real, having never been before, and spent a week there.

I had booked such a trip for April of 2020, but… nature had other plans.

Knowing my penchant for retro gaming and vintage computing, for a few years now several friends of mine have recommended I visit Tokyo, Japan, specifically the Akihabara ward famous for its shops full of esoteric electronics.

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