I woke up early in the morning on the 19th, in a daze, I didn't know where I was.

  From Beijing to Tokyo, it used to take only 3 hours.

Under the epidemic situation, this trip has been stretched tenfold. It departed from home in Beijing at 1pm on the 17th and arrived at the Tokyo hotel at 12pm on the 18th. Nearly 35 hours have passed.

It was almost ten o'clock when I came out of the airport.

China News Agency reporter Xing Chong

  Under the epidemic, the Olympic Games, which was postponed for the first time in history, made everything special.

  Such as air ticket booking.

Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the number of international flights has plummeted. Although ticket bookings were started as early as May, it was discovered that all flights to Japan had to be transferred in other places, and there were very few remaining tickets.

I have communicated with a number of airlines and learned that the flight cannot be fully loaded under the epidemic, and the only one that satisfies the trip of 13 people is a transfer from Shenzhen.

  Another example is the quarantine procedure.

From 14 days before departure, you must check in on the organizing committee’s health declaration APP and report body temperature and other information; within 96 hours before departure, two nucleic acid tests must be performed at the designated hospital and a doctor’s diagnosis certificate must be provided; at 2 pm on the 18th After arriving in Tokyo, the nucleic acid test was performed again. After waiting for more than six hours at the airport, the test result was obtained. After more than an hour of exiting customs, an hour and a half of driving to the hotel was passed in the early morning.

At the airport, the reporter and his party experienced nearly 6 hours of waiting.

China News Agency reporter Tomita

  Compared with the consumption of time, the anxiety is multiplied.

Japan imposes strict restrictions on participants to Japan. It is necessary to submit an itinerary plan 14 days after arrival. Only when the plan is approved can the green code be obtained before the trip. This is a necessary element for traveling to Japan.

  Although the plan was submitted a month before the trip, no reply was seen, and many emails fell into the sea.

The media colleagues are quite anxious, and they have been inquiring about each other many times. The reporters who have already arrived in Japan said that they may not get the green code until they board the plane.

After several twists and turns, I communicated with a staff member of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee on the phone, and was told that their mailbox had a backlog of thousands of emails.

  Under the epidemic, although the physical distance between people has been forced to increase, the connection between them is actually more important.

For example, it is through hundreds of email exchanges with the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee that reporters can obtain all kinds of materials needed for reporting in Japan during a special period.

  When I got the green code the night before leaving, a stone in my heart finally fell to the ground.

I didn’t expect everything to be ready, only the weather, and then I have to experience a more uneasy mind: Beijing forecasts heavy rain on the 17th, if the flight is cancelled before leaving, it will not be able to catch up with the flight from Shenzhen to Tokyo in the morning on the 18th. The whole Olympic report I'm afraid it will be a waste-all flights to Japan before the Olympics have been exhausted.

The plane flew over the mouth of the Yangtze River in China.

China News Agency reporter Tomita

  On the way to Beijing Capital Airport, I kept inquiring about flight information. I heard that the flights before and after the time period had been cancelled. Fortunately, the flight still "survived" tenaciously. However, there was a delay of more than four hours at the airport.

When I arrived in Shenzhen, it was almost one o'clock in the morning. After less than three hours of rest, there was an international transfer. Many colleagues could not sleep.

At 5 a.m. on the 18th, 13 members of the China News Service reported that they checked in at Shenzhen Airport.

China News Agency reporter Tomita

  Under the epidemic, people also need to understand each other more - in the face of the unprecedented postponement of the Olympic Games in history, every participant needs to work together.

After arriving at Tokyo Narita Airport, a volunteer handled the arrival of all Olympic personnel on the flight. She said that the working hours were originally from 6 am to 3 pm, but she had already worked more than 6 hours of overtime when sending reporters out of customs.

The plane arrived at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. The crew of the flight was "fully armed", and the Japanese personnel coordinated the arrival of Olympic-related personnel.

China News Agency reporter Tomita

  It is understood that the number of overseas Olympic-related persons who arrived at Narita Airport on the 18th reached more than 2,700, an increase of more than 700 from the previous day. The Japanese reception tasks have increased sharply, and all of them are working overtime.

After taking the airport bus to the transfer station, the designated taxi driver will take the reporter to the media hotel one-on-one; in addition to the front desk, there is also an Olympic epidemic prevention staff waiting for the reporter to check in.

Take the designated airport bus, arrive at the transfer station in one hour, and then take a one-to-one taxi to the hotel.

China News Agency reporter Xing Chong

  After checking in, a reporter from the team who ran for many Olympic Games said that he originally thought that the journey of the last Rio Olympic Games was the most tortuous, but he did not expect to spend the longest journey in the Olympics where he ran the closest.

  Before leaving, family and friends can't help but worry, and their mood is particularly complicated.

Looking forward to it?

Are you scared?

To be honest, the mood is mixed.

I have run many world competitions, but the Olympics is reported for the first time in my life; experiencing such a special and tortuous Olympic Games under the epidemic can be said to have witnessed a piece of history.

You can see Mount Fuji, a famous scenic spot in Japan, from the plane.

China News Agency reporter Tomita

  What kind of history will this be?

The President of the International Olympic Committee Bach suggested adding "more unity" to the Olympic slogan after "faster, higher and stronger", hoping that this Olympic Games will become "the light at the end of the dark tunnel of mankind."

This may be an answer.

  It is the pursuit of the Olympics that we are going all out.

At present, Tokyo is still in a state of emergency for epidemic prevention and control, and in the middle of the night, there are almost no pedestrians on the road.

After the dark night, a new day will finally come.

  Reporter: Xing Chong