WARNING:: Most of this page is probably bloody boring if you are not a smoker... ok, ok, I should have said that on the previous page, before you clicked to get here. Sorry :-( This is what the smoking areas in Osaka Airport (or any other Japanese airport) look like - with efficient ventilation system, there's no need to put the sinners inside a glass cubicle with no air in it (50% nicotine, 30% tar, 5% oxygen and 15% other mixed substances including viruses, no doubt), making them look like animals in a zoo, as they do at Heathrow, San Francisco, etc. The photo on the left is a smoking area in the main lobby (with a note saying "please exhale in the direction of the vents"), and the one on the right is the smoking area right by the gate - the stand has a built-in ventilator but they have larger system built into the celing, and the whole seating area behind the stand is a smoking area - completely open from the rest of the waiting areas.
And here's a photo for general consumption, for smokers and non-smokers alike: Mount Fuji seen from the window of my Finnair flight (just after we were past Nagoya and Gifu, flying over the "Japanese Alps" ;-)
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