{"id":2106,"date":"2008-10-24T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2008-10-24T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:27:25","slug":"finally-in-my-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Finally in my hotel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pooped. The worst way to start the trip was to wake up repeatedly in the middle of the night having to rush to the bathroom, but I&#8217;m not the one who gets to decide these sorts of things. We left home at 10:30AM for a flight that turned out to be later than my mom thought, and we left Portland at 1:55PM. We arrived in Narita around 5PM Japan time, which makes it around 4AM Portland time. We boarded a train to Tokyo which took about an hour, and here&#8217;s a picture of my mom&#8217;s friend in the train. She came to meet us at the airport and is going north with us.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mieko-nex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mieko-nex-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mieko-nex\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2107\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of Tokyo&#8217;s train station which doesn&#8217;t look nearly as chaotic as it really is because you can&#8217;t see all the people rushing around. You also can&#8217;t see the sheer number of dark suits people are wearing. Probably because they&#8217;re all rushing around and hide from my camera.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/tokyostation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/tokyostation-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The people rushing around Tokyo station on Friday night.\" title=\"Tokyo station.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2108\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When we got to Tokyo, we waited for the bullet train for another hour, and then took four hour trip to Niigata. Or at least I think it took that long. It&#8217;s like 7AM Portland time right now and I&#8217;m beat. I&#8217;m recharging all the batteries on all my various crapola, and posting this nonsense when I really should be sleeping. It&#8217;s been over 24 hours since I rolled out of bed and brushed my teeth. What&#8217;s a geek to do?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bizarrebullettrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bizarrebullettrain-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bizarrebullettrain\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2109\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s off to Sado Island tomorrow. More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pooped. The worst way to start the trip was to wake up repeatedly in the middle of the night having to rush to the bathroom, but I&#8217;m not the one who gets to decide these sorts of things. We left home at 10:30AM for a flight that turned out to be later than my mom thought, and we left Portland at 1:55PM. We arrived in Narita around 5PM Japan time, which makes it around 4AM Portland time. We boarded a train to Tokyo which took about an hour, and here&#8217;s a picture of my mom&#8217;s friend in the train. She came to meet us at the airport and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally in my hotel.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}