On Wednesday the 7th, my wife returned home on a direct flight with Philippine Airlines.
I had returned to Japan on the 29th of last month, so I was on my own for about a week. However, I had a part-time job, so I did not do anything particularly different from what I had been doing so far. Sadly, my daily routine was very uneventful.
Since I was supposed to pick her up at Narita Airport, I checked the flight information of my wife's plane on a website called Flight Radar. The plane left Cebu airport 5 minutes before the scheduled time and was flying smoothly over the Pacific Ocean, arriving at Narita 30 minutes earlier than scheduled.
My train arrived at Narita Airport Terminal 2 at 12:42 pm. Flight radar shows that my wife's plane is flying just before the Boso Peninsula and will land in about 10 minutes.
The airplane arrived at the tarmac spot at 1:05 p.m., so I waited at Gate A, expecting to be out of the departure gate in 30-40 minutes. There were flights arriving from Shanghai, Daegu, Taipei, and Seoul at the same time, so it might take a little longer to enter the country, but I had already registered with Visit Japan the day before, so I expected to be out a little earlier.
At 1:59pm I received an email from my wife. She needed some kind of code and asked me to send it to her. I didn't know what code he was talking about, so while I was looking it up on the Internet, my wife came out of the immigration gate and was looking for me.
It seems that the QR code I had sent the day before was sufficient after all.
Since I had time to catch the train (train access to Narita Airport is not good; JR trains only run once an hour), I had a quick lunch at Yoshinoya. After that, I decided to go home via Shin-Kamagaya on the Narita Access Line.
Trouble occurred here. When I arrived at the Tobu Noda Line station to change trains at Shin-Kamagaya Station, there was a personal injury accident between Kashiwa and Shin-Kashiwa Stations. The train was stopped. So it was a little before 5:00 p.m. when we arrived home.
