The second leg of my journey to Hawaii was from the Osaka-Kansai airport to Honolulu. I flew on Japan Airlines. I always sit in the aisle on long distance flights, because I’m fidgety. This means that I don’t get to look out the window as much, but it’s worth it to be able to get up and walk around without bugging anyone.
Japan airlines had cameras that allowed you to see form the pilot’s viewpoint and underneath the plane. I hadn’t seen that before and I thought that was pretty cool. Most of my flight was at night so it didn’t really see much - but it’s a nice feature.
It makes taking off and landing really interesting, the TV screens in the aisles and on the bulkhead show the forward view automatically during both.
Personal screen where you can select camera views.
Down view.
Shaky landing view, the forward cameras are shown automatically on the aisle monitors.
Dinner was really good. I could smell it being heated up and I was just dying to eat by the time I got my food.
Badly lit dinner.
Vegetable tray. This wasn’t anything special, it tasted like steamed veggies and mashed veggies accordingly.
French onion soup and cheese covered toast. This was the heavenly smell. As far as I could tell it was French onion soup with cheese toast soaked in the broth. I would have eaten four of these if I could.
Desert was red-bean filled fish shaped cake. I love these, although I don’t know the name of this particular Japanese pastry. It was soft, sweet, and delicious.
Mmmm.
The deep sea mineral water trend has extended to water on flights. I guess it’s all over Asia.
I still haven’t posted about that yet - but Joe from ZenKimchi talked about it on one of his SeoulPodcasts.
The flight was pretty uneventful, except for my rather poor choice of movies. On Japan Airlines you choose whichever movie is starting at the time, you don’t get to play movies on demand. I ended up choosing a Japanese movie called 10 promises to my Dog as the first thing I watched. It is a really good movie, and I would have enjoyed it a lot but I was feeling really emotional for some reason and the movie ended up making me cry a ton. I’ve mentioned before I’m one of those people who always cries at movies, it’s just the way I am, but this movie had me sobbing into my blanket for no good reason at all. Not good for a long flight.
10 Promises to my Dog
I also watched some of Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who, but I kept falling asleep.
I arrived at the Honolulu airport. I was pretty tired at this point, but I had to transfer to Kauai still. I ended up walking to the other terminal for inter-island flights, and I spent a long time trying to figure out how to call my Dad on the pay phone and let him know i had arrived. I finally gave up and checked in for my inter-island flight and was able to reach him on a pay phone from the other side.
Once inside the terminal I realized I was hungry again. I wanted Chinese food so I ended up with this meal.
Chicken and chicken of some sort and rice. It wasn’t very memorable. The juice was really good though. I love guava juice.
Wahine. Hawaii might be America, but it’s still very different from the mainland. Even the bathroom signs remind you of that fact.
I also liked how there were lots of signs in Japanese all over Hawaii, to cater to the Japanese tourists.
The last leg of my flight, to Kauai, was uneventful.
I did have a window seat though, finally.
OooOOoooH.
One last airplane snack.
Yum, water, corn syrup and fruit puree. It wasn’t very good or healthy, but I was thirsty.
Next up, Kauai pictures.