First class has eight very comfortable suites, each of which is functionally designed and private. Personally I consider this to be among the world’s best first class products, thanks largely to ANA’s top notch soft product.

I woke up about six hours later as the lights were turned on for breakfast. There was again a choice of Japanese or Western menu. For variety I selected the latter.

ANA's 777s equipped with The Room business class have 64 business class suites in all, laid out in an unmistakable fashion with some pairs of seats in the center aisle close together and the next row spread farther apart.

Where on Earth do your feet go? Or rather how is there enough room for the seat to go flat, and THEN where do you put your legs?

There are two lounges, the ANA Lounge and the Blue Lounge, which are open to all passengers on payment of the entry fee and with free access for passengers holding business class tickets with affiliated airlines, some members of frequent flyer programs and holders of associated lounge club cards.

The most noticeable is the highest-quality monitor I've ever seen on a plane. The 24-inch 4K screen is so crisp that it made working on my MacBook Pro with Retina display feel like I'd gone back to the 2000s.

Business Class passengers and Star Alliance Gold members travelling in any cabin always enjoy priority boarding lanes to have more time to get settled.

The dinner options are simple but extensive: You can go for the traditional Japanese meal or order from the international menu, with a few entree options including braised beef shank or sautéed red snapper and scallop.

The business class appears to be the Safran "Fusio" suite model. Qatar's Qsuite has the same basic layout but I think its a custom product.

Sadly, the entertainment selection doesn't live up to the quality of the screen. There was a decent, but by no means amazing, selection of movies, with a smattering of some new releases, fairly recent classics, and a dash of randomness like The Bucket List

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The rest of the dinner service seemed to drag on. That's not a big issue on these longer, early evening departures heading for Tokyo, but could be an issue on the shorter flights back home to the states. Eventually, it was time for the main event: The Japanese meal.

Airlines don't introduce new seats all that frequently, but when they do, most hold big press conferences to stir up as much anticipation as possible.

Clearly, ANA is saving the real goodies for first class passengers – compared to the well-stocked amenity kit you get when flying Emirates business class, for example, this one felt skimpy.