Kansai International Airport with Skygate bridge from Rinku junction, Osaka Bay, Japan
When I visit an airport now I spend very little time in the terminal. We have our arrival time down to a fine art and usually barely pause from check-in to passport to boarding...just enough to buy the obligatory bottle of water that got confiscated on the way. But our journey through Kansai International Airport was not quite so ordinary.
We checked-in at the end of two weeks in Japan, in September and it had been very hot. We took advantage of the airport lounge which was very civilised, there's nothing like having refrigerated beer glasses and free Kirin on tap! And it's lucky we had a lounge...the terminal is pretty sparse once you're through security.
After a couple of hours of our flight being delayed it became clear through muddled english that our plane had been struck by lightning on arriving at Kansai and they were not able to fly us out that day. They eventually, after a couple more hours, asked us to reclaim our baggage and board coaches to local hotels. We were lucky and ended up in the Ana Gate Tower.
The next morning we were greeted with a fabulous view of the airport from the top of the tower and I took these pictures. One of these has recently been bought for a calendar. I'd love to know who bought it, my current hunch is that it was Arup, the company who did the engineering for the island airport.
 Seacle Rinku Pleasure Town Outlet Mall with ferris wheel with coloured capsules and Ana Tower Gate Hotel, Osaka, Japan |  Rinku General Medical Center, Izumisano Municipal Hospital, Rinku Orai-Kita, Izumisano, Osaka, Japan |
Rinku Town looking north from the Rinku Gate Tower, including the Izumisano Gyokyo Aozora Market, and Hanshin Expressway, Japan
Rinku Pleasuretown Beach, Osaka Bay, Japan
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