Goodbye Okinawa

Our holiday is officially ended and today, we will be returning home. It was a morning flight and we arrived at the airport around 6:45am but to our surprise, the airport was not opened yet. We were really shocked to know that the airport in Okinawa is not 24 hours. Their operating time is from 7am to 10pm. Really strange isn’t it!

There was a huge crowd at the entrance of the airport waiting for the security guard to open its door for everyone. When the doors were finally opened, we were happy to see everyone walking in quickly but orderly. The departure hall is on the 2^nd floor and there were long queues at the check in counters. The airline staff noticed that we were travelling with children and told us to proceed to the family lane which was slightly faster and it was smooth check in for us.

The airport is not very big I supposed but the shops were not opened yet. Then we proceeded to the departure gate for immigration and we too had to wait for the opening hours. Everyone was really surprised but we just had to wait. As the clock ticked to 8am, the operation team started allowing people to enter for scanning. The procedure was really quick and immigration was very smooth too. 

After all the waiting and procedure, we had about 1 hour to board but many shops were not opened yet. We sat around and hubby went to get some food for the kids as he noticed one shop opened and was selling some cooked food.

When the clock struck at 8:30am, the DFS finally opened and I was really excited to do some final shopping. There were really loads of Japanese goodies to buy and yes… knowing me, I bought loads of it.

We were flying on JetStar and about half way through the flight, there was an announcement that we had a Japanese rock band onboard with us and they would like to do us a performance. It was simply amazing and they introduced themselves and it seemed like they were the popular rock band from Okinawa and they will be holding their first concert in Singapore.

They were a bunch of friendly guys and though I dun know their songs, I do find them catchy and the rhythm was nice. They were from the group HY which is made out of 5 good friends to form a band and became very popular in Okinawa. We were really star struck onboard the JetStar and it certainly brought some us some entertainment onboard. After their performance, they even allowed the passengers to have pictures taken with them. Thumps up!

With that, it completed our Okinawa trip beautifully.