{"id":7768,"date":"2013-11-05T23:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2013-11-05T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T07:38:44","slug":"japan-day-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7768","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m sitting in my hotel room in Osaka, doing what I&#8217;d do at home. Playing with my computer. It&#8217;s the middle of the afternoon, but it&#8217;s kind of nice being in a hotel room and no someone else&#8217;s house. Not that I don&#8217;t just sit at our friends&#8217; house in Toyama playing on the computer (which I did). I even found a bug in the Vim configure.in while I was there.<\/p>\n<p>This was our travel day to Osaka, and I think my mom is taking it easy with my sister in their room which is right next door. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m overdoing the free intarweb access here because I just downloaded a 2+GB compiler onto my Mac. Not that I needed it right away, but like I said, we\u2019re taking it easy right now. My mom isn\u2019t that young any more and we don\u2019t want to torture her too much.<\/p>\n<p>We left Toyama station, where they\u2019re going to have the new Hokuriku Shinkansen come through and that\u2019s the construction in the background. On the complete opposite end of Japanese train lines is the one-car diesel car which I think heads up to Mt. Tateyama.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, I have lens flare!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2652-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2652-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2652-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2652-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I told my sister to get some of the coffee out of the vending machine but she didn\u2019t like it at all. I thought it was fine. We made jokes about the name of the coffee. By the way, we stopped at Tsuruga today, which is the the terminus of the ??? (the Obama line).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2654-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2654-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2654-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2654-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s our train!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2655-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2655-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2655-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2655-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like not having to belt up like on a plane, and it\u2019s a whole lot quieter as well. My only complaint is that it\u2019s harder to use the men\u2019s bathroom, as the train rocks a bit. Other than that, I\u2019d much rather take the train.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2585-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2585-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2585-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2585-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to have one random shot out the window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2656-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2656-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2656-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2656-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One not so random, of a giant Kannon-san (goddess of mercy).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2657-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2657-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2657-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2657-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course a picture of the Suntory distillery as we sped by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2660-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2660-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2660-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2660-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still sitting in the hotel now, but I have to leave to meet my old co-worker tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m sitting in my hotel room in Osaka, doing what I&#8217;d do at home. Playing with my computer. It&#8217;s the middle of the afternoon, but it&#8217;s kind of nice being in a hotel room and no someone else&#8217;s house. Not that I don&#8217;t just sit at our friends&#8217; house in Toyama playing on the computer (which I did). I even found a bug in the Vim configure.in while I was there. This was our travel day to Osaka, and I think my mom is taking it easy with my sister in their room which is right next door. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m overdoing the free intarweb access here because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 8<\/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-7768","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\/7768","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=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}