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The flying time Vancouver toTokyo is 14 hours.We left Wednesday eveningand arrived Fridoy morning.A quick mental cal-culation will tell you that is not 14 hours ofelapsed time.There was a loss of 24 hours becauseof crossing the international date line and 6 hoursgained because of longitudinal time changes.Actually,the trip is only an overnight one,leavingVancouver in the evening and arriving Jopan thefollowing morning.You are,no doubt,as con-fused now as I am,so let's drop the subject.  \nThe Tokyo airport is fully modern and is hand-ling a large traffic of overseas planes.Recentlyacross-the-Pole flights direct from Japan toEurope have been inaugurated.  \nThe Tokyo airport contains,for the convenienceof travellers,a bank branch,open 24 hours everyday to exchange money.The Jopanese yen isfixed in relation to the dollar.It does not fluctu-ate as does the Canadian dollar.Prices generallyare a little lower for a visitor in Japan than inVancouver.Hotel roomsmeals and taxis,forinstance,are slightly under comparable items in aCanadian city.Some things,of the imported lux-ury class,are high priced.  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