{"id":5028,"date":"2011-11-09T05:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2011-11-09T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:06:22","slug":"japan-day-14-travel-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 14 &#8211; Travel to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a great night of sleep in Okayama. There was a fight on the 8th floor, probably right below me. My mom and my sister didn&#8217;t hear a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/toyoko_inn_okayama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/toyoko_inn_okayama-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"toyoko_inn_okayama\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/toyoko_inn_okayama-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/toyoko_inn_okayama-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/toyoko_inn_okayama.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My mom left on the train at 8:12AM for my aunt&#8217;s and I won&#8217;t see her for another couple of weeks. She actually got to my aunt&#8217;s before we even left Okayama. We finally broke from eating the free hotel breakfasts and found &#8220;morning sets&#8221; instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/morning_set.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/morning_set-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"morning_set\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/morning_set-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/morning_set-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/morning_set.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We wandered around the train station for a while and got on the Shinkansen for Tokyo. More bentos for us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ekiben1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ekiben1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ekiben\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ekiben1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ekiben1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ekiben1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trip was pretty uneventful and we got to Tokyo around 4:20PM. I didn&#8217;t do all that much before meeting an old co-worker from my Mitsubishi days, Suzuki-san, for dinner. Not much to report other than the food was good and the tiny restaurant was filled with smoke. Ugh. I don&#8217;t miss second-hand cigarette smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a great night of sleep in Okayama. There was a fight on the 8th floor, probably right below me. My mom and my sister didn&#8217;t hear a thing. My mom left on the train at 8:12AM for my aunt&#8217;s and I won&#8217;t see her for another couple of weeks. She actually got to my aunt&#8217;s before we even left Okayama. We finally broke from eating the free hotel breakfasts and found &#8220;morning sets&#8221; instead. We wandered around the train station for a while and got on the Shinkansen for Tokyo. More bentos for us! The trip was pretty uneventful and we got to Tokyo around 4:20PM. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 14 &#8211; Travel to Tokyo<\/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-5028","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\/5028","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=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5033,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}