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Nerdtour 2012: Day 1, and lessons learned (the hard way)

Land ho!
I only took a couple of pictures of Chiba, just south of the airport and the first land seen when coming in to Narita.

So, okay, technically it’s Day 1 and 2, but I don’t feel like counting the day that I travelled here, although it was semi-eventful, in that I navigated the Narita airport support system as well as the Japan Rail system, at least to a small degree!

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Nerdtour 2012: T-minus 26 days – Train, train..


Hoo boy, it’s now less than 4 weeks till I leave for Japan!  When it was a few months away, I was kind of relaxed about preparations, but now it’s getting real!  One big preparation question: buy a JR Rail Pass or not?

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