{"id":6380,"date":"2012-10-15T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2012-10-15T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:17:33","slug":"japan-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=6380","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

The party next door ended around 11PM and it was fairly quiet last night. I got up feeling pretty good besides my sore throat. But I still didn’t feel like doing anything. Both my sister and mom agreed, I don’t really have to do anything since I am on vacation. So, I did what I did the last time I didn’t want to leave the room: laundry.<\/p>\n

About the time I started, my sister told me to buy the train tickets for our return train trip from Osaka to Tokyo. That’s right before we get on the plane to head home. I had enough time to walk to the train station, stand in one of the slowest lines I’ve been in, twice, since I thought I’d screwed up the tickets once. The laundry still wasn’t done when I got back.<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful day. I’m not sure why, but there have been a lot of hot, sunny days right after cold rainy days. That make for some humid days as well.<\/p>\n

I decided to eat lunch at Burger King just because I saw it on the way back and I wanted to be able to say that the last time I ate at Burger King was in Tokyo. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t make me feel very good. Another problem is that I like eating lunch at odd times. If you want to was lunch outside of the hours of 11AM – 2PM, nothing “normal” is open but hamburger joints are.<\/p>\n

I did get to watch some guys throwing away the contents of an office of some sort from the window of the Burger King.<\/p>\n

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After that it was back to the hotel to try to figure out how to keep my Japanese data plan SIM running. The one I got only works for a month at a time without getting a “recharge”. It took way longer than I thought it would to figure it out on their web site because telephone companies aren’t known to be clear and it was all in Japanese. I’m not sure how I killed the afternoon but I’m sure that took a lot of the time.<\/p>\n

Then it was time for me to be indecisive. I’ve been here 26 days and I needed a haircut but Tokyo has the worst men’s hairstyles that I’ve seen in a long time. Regular haircuts here come with a post-haircut wash, a shave, and a shoulder massage, and costs about \u00a54,000. But there’s also a chain called QB House that just does the cut for \u00a51,000 in 10 minutes. I couldn’t decide whether to let them try cutting my hair or just to get a buzz cut that they couldn’t screw up. I finally figured I should trust them and just let the guy at QB House cut my hair. It wasn’t so bad.<\/p>\n

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The indecisiveness carried over into dinner and I walked all over the neighborhood before I finally went to buy a bento from a shop that wasn’t that good.<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve been looking for is some traditional Japanese sweets and I really haven’t seen anywhere. Well, it turns out that walking around the neighborhood I found a place right across the street.<\/p>\n

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And that’s it for today. Turns out the railway museum isn’t closed on Mondays like most museums. It’s closed on Tuesday so I probably won’t be able to see it on this trip. Oh, well, it’s not high on my list of regrets. I think going to Burger King for lunch is higher on my list of regrets at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The party next door ended around 11PM and it was fairly quiet last night. I got up feeling pretty good besides my sore throat. But I still didn’t feel like doing anything. Both my sister and mom agreed, I don’t really have to do anything since I am on vacation. So, I did what I did the last time I didn’t want to leave the room: laundry. About the time I started, my sister told me to buy the train tickets for our return train trip from Osaka to Tokyo. That’s right before we get on the plane to head home. I had enough time to walk to the train … Continue reading Japan Day 26<\/span> →<\/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-6380","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\/6380","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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6389,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}