{"id":10589,"date":"2022-11-18T03:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2022-11-18T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:28:27","slug":"japan-2022-day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10589","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2022 Day 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Didn\u2019t sleep great, because I woke up at 5am thinking I had a stomach ache. I had a slight stomach ache and I think I\u2019ve come to the realization that I can\u2019t drink Japanese sake just like I have to cut way down on the beer. Oh well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve told my cousins about my fantasy plan to move to Japan and I guess if I move out into the sticks it would cost me around $250k to build a house out here. I think it would probably be at least 10x more near Tokyo, but this is the sticks. And brand new apartments are selling for about the same amount. Of course, that\u2019s with today\u2019s favorable exchange rate. In any case, it would be much less than my house in the US. While I really do like it out in the sticks, I think I\u2019d get lonely out here with no one I knew.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the food pictures.<\/p>\n

Breakfast was a buffet at the semi-fancy hotel. I got a little bit of everything, and overate again. My only complaint was the natto was better in other parts of the country, but my cousin was complaining about it too.<\/p>\n

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Our Shinkansen didn\u2019t leave until 12:28 so we had time to kill and we walked around my aunt\u2019s old neighborhood, where I\u2019m considering moving if I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get too lonely. There\u2019s some neat temples.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re confusing because they combine parts of temples and shrines. Like the temple incense burner.<\/p>\n

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And the gong like a shrine.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and we saw some turtles sunning themselves and it took a minute to realize they were real and not statues.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also new boutique shops popping up and rental sauna rooms.<\/p>\n

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I finally visited the Shunan City Library (you can Google it to see how nice it is) which blends a library, bookstore, and a Starbucks and was disappointed to find out that the wall of books was fake! No picture because there was a sign that said \u201cno pictures\u201d.<\/p>\n

We made it to Okayama in under an hour and I took a nap during the trip. We checked into our hotel but couldn\u2019t get into the rooms until 3pm. My sister wanted to see the local TeamLab exhibit, TeamLab: Tea Time in the Soy Sauce Storehouse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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It was pretty interesting. You go down into a dark space and drink chilled tea. Your interactions with your glass changes the sound and light coming from the glass. If you drink it all, it\u2019s over and you get 30 minutes to just relax and enjoy the space.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been in the soy sauce storehouse before. It\u2019s used as a gallery for art installations.<\/p>\n

After that it was some more wandering around and the back to the station for dinner. I ate too much again (I\u2019m already planning on a diet when I get back because I can\u2019t afford to eat like I was for both health and financial reasons and to keep from being pestered by my cousins.)<\/p>\n

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But until I get back, TONKATSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Didn\u2019t sleep great, because I woke up at 5am thinking I had a stomach ache. I had a slight stomach ache and I think I\u2019ve come to the realization that I can\u2019t drink Japanese sake just like I have to cut way down on the beer. Oh well. I\u2019ve told my cousins about my fantasy plan to move to Japan and I guess if I move out into the sticks it would cost me around $250k to build a house out here. I think it would probably be at least 10x more near Tokyo, but this is the sticks. And brand new apartments are selling for about the same amount. … Continue reading Japan 2022 Day 20<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10590,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}