Rough Start

Tuesday - We began our train trip this morning at 9:15 am from Terminal 1 at Narita Airport. We are on a limited express train to Tokyo, where we will change to shinkansen. Everything has gone smoothly so far; however, the train just stopped at Yotsukaido outside of Chiba for quite a while, which puts us off schedule. Evidently, there was a train ahead of us that had an accident. Someone jumped in front of it to commit suicide. Thus the delay. We have been told that suicides in this manner are quite common in Japan. One person even suggested that we not arrange to sit in the first car of any train for fear that we (Elliott especially) might see someone jump in front of it to kill themselves.

This is Wed. morning at 7 am. I have only a few minutes to write. Our schedule got all messed up, but we were able to figure things out and get to our destination. We had a very informative time with the Meltons last night. They are missionaries with EBM in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.

This will be our longest day of travel. I will write more as soon as I am able.