We get given the amenities - slippers (only used by SQ on the Japan routes AFAIK) and socks, amenity kit (more on this in a minute), and pajamas. The amenity kit has changed since I last flew SQ F longhaul (or mediumhaul overnight). It is no longer a square bag but not rounded like a pencil case. The contents have also changed. The cologne is no longer Bulgari blue but a different scent, smaller and round shaped. Sorry I dont have it on me right now to give the name - I'll post it later. The cooling eye mask is also gone - I dont recall ever seeing someone use this so I'm not surprised. What I am surprised about, though, is the large comfy fabric eye mask is also gone, or perhaps they forgot to hand it out/ran out?

Being yet another shortish late overnight flight I wasnt too much interested in food or movies, but moreso on some sleep. However I did stay up more than I intended - oh well plenty more flights to catch up on sleep later.

We had an impressively strong tail wind, with a flight time just a shade under 5 hours! We approached a cloudy and wet Tokyo. On approach there was a thick blanket of cloud and there just ahead and below us was the tailfin of another aircraft slicing through the cloudtop into the clear air above. It reminded me of a dolphin fin breaking the surface of the sea, the undulations in the cloud top making the tailfin reappear and disappear and showing varying proportions of it, analogous to the dolphin's motion in the sea or perhaps a gentle seaswell.

We landed in the misty rain and had the longest possible taxi at NRT - some 30 minutes back down the far runway's taxiway, past all of terminal 2, then around the cross, past all of terminal 1 and to the end gate (gate 11) of terminal 1. Phew - lucky I had a good book to read!

With the strong tailwind we had arrived ahead of the nonstop SQ flight from SIN, when usually that flight arrives much earlier.