{"id":7268,"date":"2012-11-04T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2012-11-04T05:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:11:47","slug":"japan-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7268","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another travel day. I went to Tokyo on the Sh?nan-Shinjuku line and my mom and Mrs. Kobayashi went on to Toyama to visit the Kawasakis.<\/p>\n<p>Before we all left, we went to get ramen near Gunma University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7269\" title=\"IMG_2135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2135-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2135-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2135-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2135-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to Shinjuku and I just wasn&#8217;t ready to deal with the crowds. I hid in my hotel room and sounds like my sister and Lim were doing the same. I had three days of update to do on my blog, and also updates to software on my computer. The intarweb connection in this hotel seems a bit odd; plenty of bandwidth but trouble with DNS. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>We all decided to go get dinner and I suggested going to the Odakyu building. I think all of the ladies from Gunma go to Odakyu and they&#8217;d mentioned the restaurants there. It wasn&#8217;t as busy as the Takashimaya building which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>My sister and I got some sort of soba special. I can&#8217;t tell what the hell is in focus in this picture. I think the answer is NOTHING.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7270\" title=\"IMG_2136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2136-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2136-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2136-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2136-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lim got something else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7271\" title=\"IMG_2137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2137-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2137-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2137-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2137-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone was taking pictures of their food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7272\" title=\"IMG_2138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2138-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2138-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2138-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2138-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was telling my sister, I think I&#8217;m just about done and need to go home. In Osaka I couldn&#8217;t remember when I was in my hotel room sometimes. Ah well, only two more weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another travel day. I went to Tokyo on the Sh?nan-Shinjuku line and my mom and Mrs. Kobayashi went on to Toyama to visit the Kawasakis. Before we all left, we went to get ramen near Gunma University. I got to Shinjuku and I just wasn&#8217;t ready to deal with the crowds. I hid in my hotel room and sounds like my sister and Lim were doing the same. I had three days of update to do on my blog, and also updates to software on my computer. The intarweb connection in this hotel seems a bit odd; plenty of bandwidth but trouble with DNS. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 46<\/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-7268","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\/7268","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=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}