The second day turned out clear.

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Living somewhere quiet like Urayasu wouldn’t be bad at all.

breakfast

A shame there was no miso soup.. but out came a textbook Japanese breakfast.

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Urayasu scenery

Tokyo Disneyland is right next door to Urayasu, so there are plenty of hotels here for people coming in from out of town to visit the park. With Disneyland’s crowds down anyway, using the hotels as covid quarantine facilities is a good idea.

a moment of nice weather

lunch

The weather is nice but I can’t go out, so meals are my only pleasure. The curry was the real thing and so was the hamburg steak. No off-the-shelf retort pouch could taste like this, so someone must have put real work into it. Still, I kept thinking I really should have stopped by a convenience store beforehand.. Sitting alone in a hotel room with nothing to eat, watching nothing but YouTube and Netflix, got boring..

rainbow

I saw a rainbow too. A double rainbow, in fact. Around the afternoon of the second day my PCR test came back negative. I’d be leaving the next morning, and they only assign you a bus once you tell them where you’re headed.

dinner

They seem to put a lot of care into dinner, and this time it was Chinese. The chinjao rosu and everything else were cooked so they’d still taste good cold, and it tastes like a proper restaurant.

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breakfast on the last day

This time it came western style. Come to think of it, westerners must be quarantined here too, so I wonder how the Japanese menu sat with them.

the parking lot in front of the hotel

Palm trees, very much Chiba..

I got lucky and rode a bus all the way to my front door. My original plan was to take a bus bound for the Haneda Airport area, get off at Haneda and drive a rental car home, but the “Haneda Airport area” covers a very wide range. I figured it might reach as far as Shinagawa, but they’ll take you all the way to the front of Hamamatsucho Station. They have to come back to the starting point after dropping you off anyway, so if you ask nicely they’ll take you pretty deep in.

It took three days to get from Seoul to my home in Tokyo, and it all went smoothly. I could see that the Japanese government had put real thought into its infection control measures. The quarantine period wasn’t hard either. (A hotel vacation..) That said, a luxurious quarantine like this doesn’t look sustainable. I’m curious how it will be run from here on.

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