Time to leave Japan. The worst scrum for breakfast so far in the New Hankyu. Two together would mean one could hold a table while the other fetched stuff. Dire. Saw European women who hadn't worked out how to use the orange juice dispensers - they put the glass down and then by hand pressed the metal bar.

Caught the airport coach from just by the hotel to the well designed and artistic Kansai Airport. For some reason the Japanese called the coach a limousine. After getting through the formalities with no fuss I went shopping. Got a selection of biscuits to take to work then found a better selection so wasted some money there - but I was using up the Yen I had.

It was a good flight from Kansai to Paris - I had a row of three seats to myself! The flight was perhaps 75% full. And I could have the Japanese option on the meal. Didn't need to take any neurofen to see me through to London where Mr Nelson senior was there to bring me safely home.

Conclusions. I greatly enjoyed myself. Taking a tablet like my iPad worked well, and people were using them sensibly as cameras. Japan is easier than I thought for English speakers to get around. There's a lot more to see in Japan than I managed, but to see it you need to know the ropes.