{"id":11705,"date":"2026-05-05T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:19:23","slug":"japan-2026-day-20-time-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11705","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2026: Day 20 (time to go home!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got up a little early to hit the onsen again and then got breakfast from the buffet. It was quite good. In the upper left was scrambled eggs and ketchup rice. My friend\u2019s daughter told us that it\u2019s deconstructed omurice. I skipped the curry because everything else was quite a lot.<\/p>\n

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Since we were back in the sticks, I took a diesel train, transferred to an electric train, then transferred to the shinkansen which took me to Tokyo station. I was hoping to take a bus to the airport but since it\u2019s Golden Week the roads are packed and they recommended the monorail. So i took the Yamanote line train to the Tokyo Monorail and then the Monorail to Haneda Airport. I was expecting the trains to be a mess but they were fine.<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t really that hungry at Haneda airport so I got a couple snacks at the Delta lounge. (I went to the Centurion Lounge but it was smaller and much, much darker.) This is a special dessert made for Children\u2019s Day. I guess there\u2019s supposed to be a koi in there (not a real one).<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to get on the plane from HND to SEA.<\/p>\n

The food on the plane wasn\u2019t bad, and I watched Mercy<\/em> (pretty bad), the rest of No Other Choice<\/em> (which turned into a black comedy after all), Shutter Island<\/em>, the rest of the available episodes of High Potential<\/em>, and most of Point Break.<\/em> Why didn\u2019t anyone tell me how awful Point Break<\/em> is?<\/p>\n

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Had a pretty uneventful wait in the Seattle Delta lounge (still not hungry and I had a mislabeled Coke – I think it was Diet) and the quick flight down to Portland. 32 \u00bd hours after getting up, I was back in my own bed. The woman sitting next to me on the plane said she missed her flight the night before and spent the night in the airport. She took much longer getting home than I did!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s it for my trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got up a little early to hit the onsen again and then got breakfast from the buffet. It was quite good. In the upper left was scrambled eggs and ketchup rice. My friend\u2019s daughter told us that it\u2019s deconstructed omurice. I skipped the curry because everything else was quite a lot. Since we were back in the sticks, I took a diesel train, transferred to an electric train, then transferred to the shinkansen which took me to Tokyo station. I was hoping to take a bus to the airport but since it\u2019s Golden Week the roads are packed and they recommended the monorail. So i took the Yamanote line train … Continue reading Japan 2026: Day 20 (time to go home!)<\/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-11705","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\/11705","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=11705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}