Good Ramen Hunting 2015: Sayonara Nihon

As usual, anticipation woke us way before we needed to.
We had booked our seats on the Narita Express last night so all had to today was have a quick shower, pack a few things and get to Platform 5 at Shinjuku Station by ~07:45 for the 08:02 departure.
We did it easily but we looked like two salmon swimming upstream.
There were a lot of people going to work, in the opposite direction to us.
The train left 15 minutes late, which we had not seen or heard of since our arrival.
The PA system seemed to be constantly bellowing something in Japanese, which I assumed was a detailed explanation of why this train was late and what the consequences were for those responsible.

An hour and a bit later we arrived at Narita Airport Terminal 2, because Terminal 3, where we were departing from does not have a station, yet.

We had a couple of souvenir swords that needed to be wrapped.
As they didn't fit in our luggage we asked about a wrapping service before walking the 680 metres to Terminal 3.
We got some incomplete directions and gave up looking.
I figured that the new Terminal 3, now handling so many departures, would have it's own.
WRONG! And we found this out after getting there of course.
The only option was to run back to Terminal 2, get the boxes wrapped and sprint back to Terminal 3.
I got it done with 10 minutes to spare before the boarding gate closed.

Then, as we checked our baggage in the check in staff called a Customs Officer over to make sure I was not smuggling out a rare artefact.
So, we unwrapped everything, checked the swords and rewrapped them up as best we could.
Lesson learnt - do not bother carrying/checking in ornamental swords onto planes without lots of preparation first.