We got our train on time, it was a swanky, high class one and went very fast! We shared our cabin with Ting Ting (or Evia was her English made up name) – and she was very nice and spoke English :) There was another guy – Mr Snorey but the less said about that guy the better. Not much sleep was had, so we were tired getting to Shanghai, so grabbed a cab and flopped at our hostel. It's nice, in an old towel factory! Slept a bit, called Boo and arranged to meet on the Saturday (next day) so we headed out for dinner and to do a bit of sightseeing. We saw the aquarium, the tower and the bund without going into any details! Got some nice cake from I love Cake.
Next day, we had brunch with Boo at a great place – all you can eat buffet – thanks for the lunch, Boo. It was delicious. We didn't get to spend as much time as we'd have liked with Boo due to his new arrival, but that's cool. We get that...
So, off to Tokyo. We intend to take the maglev train to the airport. I believe it goes at about 400kph. We will see!
It actually reaches 301 kph as we found out! Still, pretty quick. A day spent pottering about to the airport, just took our time, took the public transport, no cabs and got there just fine. Then we got to potter in the lounge for a bit too!
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