{"id":11946,"date":"2026-11-04T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:00:24","slug":"japan-fall-2026-day-15-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11946","title":{"rendered":"Japan Fall 2026: Day 15 (Tokyo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. So confuse. Had a hard time posting because somehow I made a \u201cpage\u201d and not a \u201cpost\u201d. Computers sure do make the world better.<\/p>\n

Sorry this is a little late. Another rainy day in Tokyo. It was a little chilly too, when it really started coming down. The morning started out OK and we met a fellow traveler from NY in the hotel elevator. Mariko and I went back to Grumpy\u2019s (Hoshino Coffee) and this time I had the ham and cheese toast. It was even tastier than I expected (always a nice surprise).<\/p>\n

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We went to Takanawa Gateway since we were meeting Mariko\u2019s friend there later in the day. Two days in a row I\u2019ve had a celebrity sighting! This time it was Dr Yelllow, the elusive maintenance shinkansen! We saw Dr Yellow from the top of the Museum of Narratives. I had to look that up because it\u2019s a very calming and huge (mostly empty) space and I keep thinking of it as the Museum of Nothing.<\/p>\n

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Takanawa Gateway is new and kind of upscale and the restaurants are pretty fancy. We took an easy out and had lunch at the museum caf\u00e9. I had the bean and beef something with a piece of bread that seemed to be missing the salt.<\/p>\n

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Mariko had the keema curry. Both were tasty.<\/p>\n

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More wandering and walked around the restaurant floors. It was called the Luftbaum and really looked to me like an upscale Rainforest Cafe. Hahaha. There were observation areas and we saw a nice grey view of the area.<\/p>\n

We ended up a bokstore cafe with my sister\u2019s friend and the scones were delicious.<\/p>\n

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For dinner we went to a curry restaurant on the Takashimaya restaurant floor. I took my poor sister on a huge detour because there\u2019s an indirect underground passage and it was when it got cold and started pouring down rain. But we were able to make it to the department store and back with only a couple of blocks outside.<\/p>\n

I had a \u201cdinner set\u201d which came with a drink (woo, non-alcoholic beer) and a bread bowl with two tablespoons of soup. That\u2019s a regular size roll.<\/p>\n

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Mariko had a hamburg steak since you can\u2019t get those easily in the US.<\/p>\n

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And this is just an example of many of my pictures. This is my left hand, trying to get my camera ready.<\/p>\n

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OK, my dinner. The half-and-half curry set. I had Indo curry and beef curry. A tiny salad and mango pudding. It was pretty good.<\/p>\n

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My dinner set also came with panna cotta and sherbet but I forgot to take a picture of that.<\/p>\n

And I hope this goes up properly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. So confuse. Had a hard time posting because somehow I made a \u201cpage\u201d and not a \u201cpost\u201d. Computers sure do make the world better. Sorry this is a little late. Another rainy day in Tokyo. It was a little chilly too, when it really started coming down. The morning started out OK and we met a fellow traveler from NY in the hotel elevator. Mariko and I went back to Grumpy\u2019s (Hoshino Coffee) and this time I had the ham and cheese toast. It was even tastier than I expected (always a nice surprise). We went to Takanawa Gateway since we were meeting Mariko\u2019s friend there later in … Continue reading Japan Fall 2026: Day 15 (Tokyo)<\/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-11946","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\/11946","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=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11947,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}