I can’t believe that I am traveling alone on an international with connecting flight! 😕I’ve been worrying about this trip before it comes but currently as I am sitting on my flight going to Washingtong Dulles International Airport via United airlines, I feel at peace. It wasnt that complicated as I expected. It went smoothly.
So here it goes.
☑ After booking, check your flight number and go to your designated terminal. I went to the airport two hrs before my departure.
☑ Check in your baggage if you have any. Research about the things that you should checked in. Knowledge is power Lol (in my case I just asked people but doing your own research is always good which I learned recently) Your boarding pass will be issued here indicating your gate number and seat number. They will ask you to pay for travel tax if you haven’t paid yet.
☑ Go through Immigration. You’ll be ask things about you or your trip. Just be honest 🙂
☑ Go through security.
☑ Proceed to your gate number and you’re ready for boarding. I’m a bit early so I waited for awhile. If you’re flying with PAL, there will be free food on the flight.
☑ Next is boarding time> Travel time > Arrival in Narita Japan (my layover)
🛩 NARITA AIRPORT
☑ After arriving in Japan, you’ll read signs saying Domestic Arrival and Connecting/International transfer. So I went to the connecting, here I’ll go through security again and showed my travel itinerary since I don’t have the boarding pass going to Dulles yet. I had arrived at terminal 2 but my flight to Dulles is in terminal 1 hence I’ll be riding the airport shuttle to get there. Check for your next flight, there will be screens where you can find all the flights and the corresponding GATE NUMBER (of course you have to take note of this) Schedules of shuttle will be available as well, just look around 🙂 (you can always asked the Japanese too if you are not sure 🙂 )
I rode the shuttle and dropped off to the gate nearest to my gate number.
OMG , wait .. while I’m writing this, the plane I’m riding going to Dulles is already leaving and I have no one beside me!!! How lucky I am !!! Party!!! I don’t know why but I feel great, Im not sure in a little while hahahah. Also it’s raining so I’m kind of being sentimental 😂Yep. Rain affects my mood coz I love it especially when I am not doing anything. I just love watching the rain through the window and feeling the moment. Ugh that was corny but yeah. It was an instant peace for me.
Going back 😂. While in Japan, I just walked around the airport and followed the gate gate number signs. So I went to my gate number first just to be sure I found it and roam around the airport again to buy some stuff like Matcha Latte Tea (my boyfriend asked me to buy some), the stores accepts US dollar and Japanese Yen only so I have to find money changer to buy things. Also you can find charging area around, you’ll see maps of Narita airport and pamphlet on how to connect to their WiFi. I tried it but it didn’t work so I went to their information counter and you just have to use a certain web address (it’s not on the pamphlet hahahah 😝) I tried free tasting of cheesecakes and it’s very delicious 😭
I also had lunch here and went back to my gate number again. I went to the counter to get my boarding pass. Waited for a few minutes and it’s time to board. Fall in line in accordance to your class. In my case I am on economy C 🙂
🛫 DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Gah. That was a long flight. I read. Nap. Watched movies. Nap again. Eat. Watch more movies. I sneak a peek on the window sometimes and Idk where part of the world it is. But it’s just beautiful seeing it from the top 😍
So after arrival LOL
☑ Fill out the immigration card and go to the non us citizen line. It took forever. 😌 They will asked questions again about your trip.
☑ Get your baggage.
☑ I am not sure if this is really required but it’s kinda like a random search but when I asked the security what it is for he said it was custom. He probably noticed that I’m kind of confused and a little pissed off so he got out cards of the other people as well to probably prove that he did the same thing to them heheh. I still asked him that isn’t it the custom part happened awhile ago already since they asked same questions, almost a duplicate. He said that was the immigration and he is in custom. It’s weird though because he just asked me not other people. I’m not sure if I’m missing something because I spent longer time in the bathroom before I exited so maybe I just didn’t see other people got inspected? He opened and checked my bag but it went well in the end.
Now.
Hello United States of America!! 👋👋 🇺🇸
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