The delayed flight from Chicago, USA, arrived fashionably late, the white airplane sweeping across the sky above Narita City in Chiba Prefecture like a giant iron bird before touching down at Narita Airport.
Scattered tourists walked off the plane, which was quite out of the ordinary for Japan at this time of year.
Since Japan was one of the most popular tourist destinations, and it just happened to be the cherry blossom season—the peak tourist period—while Narita Airport was one of Japan's largest international airports, every plane landing here previously would disembark crowds of packed tourists. While delayed flights were common enough, a plane with only a pitifully small number of passengers was truly bizarre.
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