After one month stay in Naha, I came back to Tokyo a few days ago. Soon after the take-off, the airplane leveled off at 2,000 feet because of the airspace limitation of Kadena airport which is one of the largest U.S. airbases. We were not surprised at the temporary slowdown of the airplane thanks to the captain's notice. The return air time was thirty minutes shorter because of the jet stream. It is always blowing from west to east and is so fast that airplanes are strongly affected by it. It is just like an escalator; you can easily go up on an upward escalator while it's very hard for the opposite direction. As my seat was right side, I could only see the Pacific Ocean because the airplane was mostly flying east. It was more or less regrettable that I missed Mt. Fuji when the CA announced, "Passengers, we can see beautiful Mt. Fuji on the left side." Different from the cloudy sky over Naha City, it was fine in Tokyo with this blue sky. It was blue but I can't call it "clear" because the haze over this city never goes away.
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