I am pleased to announced that I have published my latest trip report flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Seattle to Tokyo Narita airport back in October, hosted on airliners.net.
This is the first part series of trip reports covering my flights to Manila, Philippines last ...
The next stop on my trip was a return to Tokyo. This time, I decided to splurge on one of my most anticipated hotels ever. Like many people, ever since seeing Lost in Translation, I wanted to visit the Park Hyatt Tokyo for myself. Despite my attempts to keep this whole ...
The long-awaited 787 has been in the news a lot lately. The first United 787 was recently delivered to United, so seeing more of these innovative new airplanes in North America will become more frequent. Japan Air Lines flies a 787 between Tokyo and Boston, and just this week, ANA ...
Japan, and in particular Tokyo has long been a place that has intrigued me. I have been to Japan several times, but other than one 22 hour layover, on those other trips I did not leave Narita (and one unplanned stop at Haneda...). I was excited to finally have the chance to spend a ...
Overview: A strong in-city business hotel
Strengths: Service, location, rooms
Drawbacks: Lobby configuration? (very minor point)
After some helpful debate within FT’s Luxury Hotel forum between the Tokyo Peninsula, Four ...
Sixty seven years ago, on August 6, 1945, the world was changed forever, as an atomic bomb was dropped above Hiroshima Japan. At 8:15 in the morning, the B-29 named Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima dropping its only payload, a single bomb known as Little Boy. It detonated about 2000 ...
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – AA 167 JFK-NRT 777 Purportedly First Class; Narita Express
Part 3 – Visiting Tokyo in 1970: Hotel Okura
Part 4 – NH 1161 HND-GMP 777 Economy: Wow! So this is what they have back here?
Part 5 – Hotel on a Hill: Grand Hyatt Seoul
Part 6 – KE 85 ...
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – AA 167 JFK-NRT 777 Purportedly First Class; Narita Express
Part 3 – Visiting Tokyo in 1970: Hotel Okura
Part 4 – NH 1161 HND-GMP 777 Economy: Wow! So this is what they have back here?
Part 5 – Hotel on a Hill: Grand Hyatt Seoul
Part 6 – KE 85 ...
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – AA 167 JFK-NRT 777 Purportedly First Class; Narita Express
Part 3 – Visiting Tokyo in 1970: Hotel Okura
Part 4 – NH 1161 HND-GMP 777 Economy: Wow! So this is what they have back here?
Part 5 – Hotel on a Hill: Grand Hyatt Seoul
Part 6 – KE 85 ...
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – AA 167 JFK-NRT 777 Purportedly First Class; Narita Express
Part 3 – Visiting Tokyo in 1970: Hotel Okura
Part 4 – NH 1161 HND-GMP 777 Economy: Wow! So this is what they have back here?
Part 5 – Hotel on a Hill: Grand Hyatt Seoul
Part 6 – KE 85 ICN-JFK ...
I had a wonderful, albeit brief, stay in Japan and feel the obligation to provide the following observation:
Above all else, my trip to Japan demonstrated that the media shamelessly blows stories out of proportion. Remember all the talk about the store shelves being empty after the ...
(Updated October 2011)
American has expanded where it offers Five Star service to nine domestic cities and five overseas. The mystery surrounding Five Star is now gone, and almost of the details of the service, including how to book, are published on AA.com.
The service is not ...
When disaster struck Japan, I waivered over whether to take my planned trip to Tokyo next week. Despite dire warnings of radiation contamination, empty shelves at grocery stores, and rolling blackouts, I determined that media reports were overblown (to some extent they were and continue to be) ...
To be clear, compared to what the Japanese people are going through right now, my dilemma is quite unsubstantial, but because this is my travel blog, I trust you won't find it in poor taste to speculate about my upcoming travel plans.
A week from Tuesday I am scheduled to fly from Los ...
"This is a precautionary measure for us," a Lufthansa spokesman told news agency AFP.
At the Lufthansa hubs in Frankfurt and Munich all flights from Japan were checked by airport fire departments but no radioactivity has been detected so far.
A source at Frankfurt ...
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As frequent travelers we all wonder about how others are being effected by events like today's Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan and thinking I could have been there, or I was there last week... I know many of us started to look at the flight status of our airline to see what went on during today's ...
Check out this crazy video inside the Delta Skyclub at NRT during the big Earthquake, the video was posted on CNN's iReport.
Reports are the everyone was ok in the lounge and were evacuated from the building. Lots of broke glass and as you can see in the video something ...
All Nippon Airways, a leading Japanese airline and member of Star Alliance, has been in touch with my office in Frankfurt all day concerning the massive 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan late this afternoon.
Over 100 deaths are already confirmed and billions of dollars in damage to private ...
