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[aparisi2274]

Hey All...

I am leaving to go to Japan tomorrow. I am flying out of Newark and flying NS to Narita.

Now I know when I leave here tomorrow morning, I get into tokyo on Tuesday at around 1:45pm...

My question though, is when I come home, which is on Monday, 9/19, do I also land on Monday? I take off from Narita on Monday at 4:50pm, and I think I land on Monday at 4:05pm, because of the time difference? Am I right, or do I actually land on Tuesday?

Anyone know?

 

[RevenantKioku]

You'll return Monday.
I left Narita Monday evening at 5ish, and got back to Rochester NY at 11pm Monday. I had to take 3 planes though.

 

[aparisi2274]

You'll return Monday.
I left Narita Monday evening at 5ish, and got back to Rochester NY at 11pm Monday. I had to take 3 planes though.

Yeah I hate layovers... So I am taking Non stop both ways...

So I will definately get back in on Monday...

Thanks

How was your jetlag when you got to Japan? I plan on sleeping on the plane

 

[Miroku]

Nonstop from Narita to Newark = you land at roughly the exact same time/day you left. give or take an hour or two.

 

[MetatronM]

Yeah, you will land on Monday.

I actually had very little problem with jetlag, though the first day I was there after arriving I woke up at about 5:30 in the morning. If that happens, just make sure you stay up as late as possible so that the next day you wake up at a more normal time and you should be fine.

 

[RevenantKioku]

I couldn't sleep on the plane. I'm fairly tall, so I was squished. Painful the whole time, and when I got there, I nearly passed out on one of the 3 train rides I had. (Narita to Kanazawa, every train the last one I could get to where I needed to go!) I was so fucked up the next day, I completely bombed the placement test I had to take (yeah, I made a mistake with the dates and showed up a day later than I should have) and pretty much had to beg to the teachers to move me up to a class that wasn't learning how to conjugate basic verb forms. ><

 

[aparisi2274]

that sucks...

I plan on getting a seat in the emergency exit row, but the row where the seat will still recline, and I am going to take an Ambien sleeping pill, and pass out....

 

[seanoff]

try and get a sensible amount of sleep adjusted to where you are going.

So if you take off from Tokyo at 5, go to sleep at say 10pm tokyo time and wake up in the morning NY time. Tough on that flight but try to get 4 or 5 hrs. Hopefully you'll get home and be tired at about bed time in NY.

 

[EB Guy]

don't forget to pick up my ds game you bastard!

 

[cvxfreak]

that sucks...

I plan on getting a seat in the emergency exit row, but the row where the seat will still recline, and I am going to take an Ambien sleeping pill, and pass out....

This is my experience on JAL, dunno about NS. But the exit row is a nightmare. Yes, you get legroom, but if you're anything but petit, the lack of reclining arm rests will keep you squished. Not worth it.

 

[Blimblim]

This is my experience on JAL, dunno about NS. But the exit row is a nightmare. Yes, you get legroom, but if you're anything but petit, the lack of reclining arm rests will keep you squished. Not worth it.

That's my problem as well. I'm flying to Tokyo tomorrow and I don't know if I want to ask for this row or not. I'm 6'4" (or 5, don't know) and in a 747-400 like the one I'll be in tomorrow I know it will be a nightmare for my legs. I'm also quite big/large, not really fat but still larger than your average people. So I don't really know what to do.
I wish British Airways used some Airbus planes for their long flights, they usually are so much more confortable.

 

[cvxfreak]

That's my problem as well. I'm flying to Tokyo tomorrow and I don't know if I want to ask for this row or not. I'm 6'4" (or 5, don't know) and in a 747-400 like the one I'll be in tomorrow I know it will be a nightmare for my legs. I'm also quite big/large, not really fat but still larger than your average people. So I don't really know what to do.
I wish British Airways used some Airbus planes for their long flights, they usually are so much more confortable.

Yeah, Boeing blows in my view.

I was annoyed with the exit row because the exit door had this part bulging out, defeating my extra legroom right there. You'd be lucky if, based on your size, you could get the tray table to be flat (my brother who was 6"3' couldn't).

If your flight's not full, move to a spot where you will have an extra seat next to you.

My mom and brother complained the hell out of JAL's small seats at Narita Airport, and the flight was OVERBOOKED. But mysteriously they got to have an empty seat in their row in the middle. :lol My guess is updated the person who was supposed to sit there.

 

[seanoff]

I wish British Airways used some Airbus planes for their long flights, they usually are so much more confortable.

Seats are airline not airplane specific. I've just flown Singapore Airlines, China Southern and Qantas. All had different seats but the seats were the same regardless of aircraft on each airline. Eg The seats on the China Southern 777 were pretty much the same as the seats on the China Southern AB320.

Qantas's BC sleeper seats are the same on their AB330-300s, and their 747-400s.

What class are you on BA. World Traveller is not too bad, that is sort of like their premium economy.

 

[Shouta]

When I had this flight, I made sure to stay up a bit late the day before my flight so I was tired on the plane. That made it easier for me to sleep on the plane some even though I can never fully fall asleep (which is kinda good because I sore really loud). I just made sure I had stuff to do (did quite a bit of writing, some reading, and watched some movies both inflight and stuff that I brought on my own). If you can fall asleep in spurts, it's not too bad.

 

[videogamer]

Yeah, you will land on Monday.

I actually had very little problem with jetlag, though the first day I was there after arriving I woke up at about 5:30 in the morning. If that happens, just make sure you stay up as late as possible so that the next day you wake up at a more normal time and you should be fine.

It's pretty neat to walk around in new surroundings at like 1 or 4 in the morning, especially if there is no nightlife. Then jetlag gets old quite fast as one day you can't sleep at night and the other you sleep all the way until 3 in the afternoon.

If your flight's not full, move to a spot where you will have an extra seat next to you.

Yeah, until they stick someone new next to you, twice on these long flights. That and the line behind the restrooms. *Waves stick at Cathay but is too poor to go elsewhere*

Anyway, Seat Guru is your friend... use it to choose an acceptable seat.

 

[Lyte Edge]

I'm lucky in that I can fall asleep on long international flights, and try to sleep as much as I can, but no matter which airline you fly, coach is coach, and it's going to suck. That said, I took Northwest on my flight to Japan last month, and coach was more comfortable than the Delta flight I took back in 2001. I feel spoiled, however, since last year, I was able to fly business class to Tokyo. MUUUUUUCH better. Couldn't hook up my laptop, but I had that interactive video monitor which kept me busy enough. This made the NW flight suck even more, since I could barely see the movie screen to watch one of the three films that they played. WHY don't these international flights show a shitload of movies/TV shows?

Jetlag doesn't seem to hit me in Japan until after about a week after landing. There were a few days where I'd come home after work and just pass out until 10pm, making it hard to go to sleep, but now I'm adjusted to the time after living here for a month now. I am not used to it being 10 or so hours ahead here though, so when I want to read the results of a TV show or find an episode to download, it feels like I have to wait forever.

 

[Blimblim]

Seats are airline not airplane specific. I've just flown Singapore Airlines, China Southern and Qantas. All had different seats but the seats were the same regardless of aircraft on each airline. Eg The seats on the China Southern 777 were pretty much the same as the seats on the China Southern AB320.

Well when I went to miami, the A320 on the flight to there was *much* more confortable than the 747 for the return. Really a big difference. It was Air France btw.

What class are you on BA. World Traveller is not too bad, that is sort of like their premium economy.

I'm on world traveller, but I think the premium economy is world traveler plus.

 

[seanoff]

Blim,

sorry for the cynicism, but it wouldn't be unknown for the French to show a product from somewhere else in a not so good light. Also, the 747 seats may have been older and therefore a different style from the newer AB330 seats.

Qantas replaced their seats about 5 years ago, took a while but if you got the older seats it was pretty plain. No moveable head rest, much thicker thru the back, therefore less leg room, different and lesser a/v controller etc. Same with their new bc capsules. I think their finished now but the AB330s had them on delivery and the 747s were retro fitted. So u could fly one way on one and one way on the other and get totally different seats. Nothing to do with the aircraft make.

 

[MetatronM]

It's pretty neat to walk around in new surroundings at like 1 or 4 in the morning, especially if there is no nightlife. Then jetlag gets old quite fast as one day you can't sleep at night and the other you sleep all the way until 3 in the afternoon.

Oh yeah, it was great getting up that early that particular day. We were staying in a ryokan in the town of Narita that night, so I got to have the whole bath in the place to myself and then walked around outside where there was a nice big temple right across the street. And then the next day I was back on track with sleeping and waking up at proper times.

All in all it was one of the easiest trips as far as jetlag was concerned that I've had.

I think one of the important things is to only sleep for part of the flight, but not the whole thing. I know I fell asleep just before we reached Hudson Bay and when I woke up we were somewhere in the Arctic north of Alaska (there's actually some REALLY cool scenery to see during the flight like the semi-frozen Arctic Ocean and the mountains of far eastern Russia, assuming your flight path goes that north). I have no idea how long that actually was, but I would guess it was probably about half the flight, give or take.

I also was extremely lucky to have an aisle seat and nobody sitting next to me, so even though it was coach, I had an unusually large amount of room to myself.

Man...I wanna go again. :lol