We got up later than scheduled.
Our delayed schedule made us hurry up and forced to take Keisei Skyliner, the rapidest train connecting downtown of Tokyo and Narita International Airport.
From Nippori, we boarded it.
The train was running slowly until Shin-Shibamata, but began to accelerate after the station and might have reached 160km/h after Inba-Nihonidai.
We arrived at Narita Airport, and issued tickets for Vladivostok. Since today is the 2nd day in January, we could see few people around the ticketing counter.
After lunch, we proceeded to boarding gate of the aircraft. Japanese and Russian ground staff of S7 airlines were chatting enjoyably around the boarding gate. It's rare to see that. Probably, Japan's airline careers don't allow employees to chat, even while they have nothing to do.
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Boarding gate
After boarding aircraft, sandwiches and juice were served before landing.
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Few passengers onboard
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Sunset could be seen from the aircraft
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Landing
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Airport's information was provided with Russian, English, and Chinese
From Vladivostok international Airport, we had to use taxi, because the last train had already departed and local bus runs every 1 hour.
(The taxi driver said that the last bus had already departed, but we found the timetable saying a bus departing at 20:00 is available. I don't know which information was true.)
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According to this board, a bus departing at 20:00 is available
We reached today's hotel and hanged out around downtown of Vladivostok.
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Maybe, snow festival
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Many electric decorations
We walked to Vladivostok station
Russian Railways 3ЭС5К series
Near Vladivostok station, a man asked me "Japan?", and I replied "Yes".
Somehow, he gave us gum which was made in Japan.
I couldn't understand his intention.
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Just after taking this picture, he asked me
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THe timetable is based on Moscow time
Since it was nearly -13℃, we headed for the hotel to prevent frostbite.