{"id":11178,"date":"2024-11-05T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2024-11-06T04:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:01:36","slug":"japan-2024-again-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2024 (again) Day 3 (edited)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had breakfast at a German Bakery (called German Bakery, if I recall correctly). It wasn\u2019t as good as the coffee shop but we wanted to give it a try. Hot dog and hash brown set. (My hot dog is not deformed, I took a bite before remembering to take a picture.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0832.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0832.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One last meeting with the eldest \u201ckid\u201d at one of Japan\u2019s most picturesque Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_9001.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_9001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then it was off on the long ride to Kanazawa (almost 30 minutes on the Shinkansen!)<\/p>\n<p>Blah blah picturesque scenery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0833.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0833.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to a famous daifuku shop. I had Shine Muscat and Mariko had strawberry. I like strawberry but I got the \u201climited edition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0835.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0835.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kanazawa isn\u2019t as big as they think it is. Here are the famous long stairs leading from the shrine to the Higashi Chayamachi geisha district. I guess men would say they were going to the shrine before sneaking off to see the geishas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0837.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0837.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to the famous shotengai where I swore I\u2019d eat street food but we both just had Kanazawa curry. I got the traditional pork cutlet and Mariko had the grilled veggies. I also got the \u201cmedium\u201d which was so filling that I had a hard time eating dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0841.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0841.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0843.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0843.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We still had time to kill and ended up at a shrine with quite a unique gateway entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0844.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0844.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For dinner we went to a restaurant floor and had rice balls. And in typical iPhone fashion, I am missing the picture of my dinner. Here\u2019s Marikos. Mine had karaage insted of the ankake and it was a LOT of chicken.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0846.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_0846.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then it was back to the Dormy Inn where I had a horrible time sleeping. It\u2019s the season where they like to overheat the rooms and also give you the winter futon comforter which just means it\u2019s too hot for me to sleep. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had breakfast at a German Bakery (called German Bakery, if I recall correctly). It wasn\u2019t as good as the coffee shop but we wanted to give it a try. Hot dog and hash brown set. (My hot dog is not deformed, I took a bite before remembering to take a picture.) One last meeting with the eldest \u201ckid\u201d at one of Japan\u2019s most picturesque Starbucks. And then it was off on the long ride to Kanazawa (almost 30 minutes on the Shinkansen!) Blah blah picturesque scenery. We went to a famous daifuku shop. I had Shine Muscat and Mariko had strawberry. I like strawberry but I got the \u201climited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan 2024 (again) Day 3 (edited)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","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=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11186,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}