The Sun Rises There First

As the plane breaks through the layer of clouds the white snow covered landscape appears on sight. The plane hovers above the lake heading towards the runway before landing smoothly at Misawa airport. It's about an hour flight time from Haneda, the domestic airport in Tokyo, which is about 2 hours and 3000 yen away by bus from Narita International Airport.
It has been a long time since he last saw snow covered anything. He is delighted, but wary as the temperature is recorded at -1 degree Celcius.
Haneda is quite a busy airport. It has two terminals serving 5 airlines. Like most airports that he has seen, and unlike KLIA, the counters are all lined-up perpendicular to the entrance to the departure hall. KLIA is unique in that sense. The check in counters are in line with the entrance to the departure gate, which makes it looks smoother and compact.
Obviously Nakamora is in Japan, the country where the sun rises first, where persons with the name Nakamora would be more readily found. While stuck in his small hotel room, outside being cold and already dark, he recalls of not seeing any foreign workers cleaning the floor at the airport, replenishing the vending machines, loading the luggage into the bus, or serving the toast and coffee that he had for breakfast at the airport.