{"id":10605,"date":"2022-11-19T04:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2022-11-19T04:09:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T12:09:47","slug":"japan-2022-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10605","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2022 Day 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we met my sister\u2019s friend Yumi and went to a small art island we\u2019ve been meaning to see, Inujima. It\u2019s not the big one, Naoshima, which we\u2019ve been to a couple of times. But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself. We had the \u201cfree\u201d breakfast at Toyoko Inn first.<\/p>\n

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I was being clumsy and dropped the potato salad tongs on the floor. But then another guy dropped his tray on the floor so I figure I wasn\u2019t the only one.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Yumi drove us to the ferry that took us to Inujima. It\u2019s a short 10 minute ride on a 16m ferry boat. It was a little crowded on the way over because there was a class of high school kids on it with us. On the way back it was just the three of us with one other passenger.<\/p>\n

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The main art installations of Inujima are built around an old copper smelter that ran from 1909 to 1919. There are bricks made of slag all throughout the old plant.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s much more than that with an interesting installation that I wasn\u2019t able to take pictures of.<\/p>\n

There are also old houses that are repurposed into exhibits around the island.<\/p>\n

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And a giant dog house (or is it a house dog?) since Inujima means dog island.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a beautiful little island and worth a visit.<\/p>\n

We had some time to kill before dinner and before we went to see the light exhibits at Korakuen gardens, so we went to see the newly refinished Okayama Castle.<\/p>\n

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They did a nice job but I warned them the inside of the castle would probably not be that interesting and it wasn\u2019t. It\u2019s not an original castle so it\u2019s mostly a museum inside.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t take any pictures of the light installations at the gardens because they look way better in person than as iPhone photographs. Here\u2019s one of the castle lit up, though.<\/p>\n

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And then it was back to the station for dinner. We went to a ramen shop and I had the fish-based broth. It was great! Of course I started eating before I took a picture.<\/p>\n

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You can also get one free \u201crefill\u201d of noodles. After that they\u2019re \u00a5160.<\/p>\n

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I ate too much and I\u2019m paying the price now. But man that ramen was good. My sister and Yumi said after I ate the ramen was the happiest I looked all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we met my sister\u2019s friend Yumi and went to a small art island we\u2019ve been meaning to see, Inujima. It\u2019s not the big one, Naoshima, which we\u2019ve been to a couple of times. But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself. We had the \u201cfree\u201d breakfast at Toyoko Inn first. I was being clumsy and dropped the potato salad tongs on the floor. But then another guy dropped his tray on the floor so I figure I wasn\u2019t the only one. Anyway, Yumi drove us to the ferry that took us to Inujima. It\u2019s a short 10 minute ride on a 16m ferry boat. It was a little crowded on the … Continue reading Japan 2022 Day 21<\/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-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","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=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10606,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions\/10606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}