{"id":11699,"date":"2026-05-05T21:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:13:16","slug":"japan-2026-day-19-niigata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11699","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2026: Day 19 (Niigata)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stayed at a hotel that I was told was \u201cokay\u201d. It\u2019s usually only about $50 US per night but for Golden Week it was closer to $130. The rooms were tiny, the walls were on the thin side, and the big bath in the basement wasn\u2019t that big. But it was fine. The breakfast was pretty good.<\/p>\n

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There was an automatic pancake maker. Wave your hand over the switch and two small pancakes came out. The pancakes were pretty good.<\/p>\n

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After that I just mainly put on my white-ish shirt, my new black Uniqlo pants, and what I thought were black socks from FamilyMart that turned out to be dark blue. Then I went to the memorial service for the elder Dr. Kawasaki (the dad of the other two Drs Kawasaki) and I was the only non-family-member there. I was also surprised that the one-year memorial is where they place the cremains into the headstone.<\/p>\n

After that we went to an onsen. This wasn\u2019t everything. We still had more fish dishes and the silver lid is hiding a very tasty pork dish.<\/p>\n

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Then we took a dip in the onsen which was very sulphury and then just hung out in the lobby eating snacks and drinking a bit from the free drink bar. It was a a lot of fun and quite relaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stayed at a hotel that I was told was \u201cokay\u201d. It\u2019s usually only about $50 US per night but for Golden Week it was closer to $130. The rooms were tiny, the walls were on the thin side, and the big bath in the basement wasn\u2019t that big. But it was fine. The breakfast was pretty good. There was an automatic pancake maker. Wave your hand over the switch and two small pancakes came out. The pancakes were pretty good. After that I just mainly put on my white-ish shirt, my new black Uniqlo pants, and what I thought were black socks from FamilyMart that turned out to be … Continue reading Japan 2026: Day 19 (Niigata)<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","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\/11699","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=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}