Traveling halfway across the world in order to visit three different countries, each with their own distinct language and culture, we were certainly bound to run into a bump along the road somewhere. Alas, it was in the early morning hours of day ten when that snafu finally arrived. As we woke up for our early morning flight, I noticed that we had received a notification that our flight information had changed. At first, everything looked fine: same takeoff time, same gate, same seats, same flight number even. And then we noticed it: a new destination. With only a few hours warning, our flight had been rerouted from Busan, our intended target, to Seoul, a six-hour drive away.
And look, as far as international snafus come, this was about as minor as it gets. Although it was a bit unsettling in the moment (I did spend a frustrating amount of time trying to book a bullet train to no avail), we were finally able to ascertain that there would be a complimentary bus service when we arrived in Seoul that would shuttle passengers to Busan. In retrospect, would I have preferred to have landed at our original destination six hours earlier and have avoided a long bus ride? Sure! But at the end of the day, we arrived in Busan in one piece, and I had a pretty decent time watching the entire first season of Andor on the extended trip there.
Without much else to report, here are some bonus pics from our time in Tokyo!
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