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<\/a><\/p>\nWe had tickets for the 2PM Shinkansen to Tokyo, so we had time for some more sightseeing. Mondays are a day for a lot of museums to be closed and the only things that were guaranteed to be open were the castle and the Orchid Garden. My mom is a fan of orchids, so my sister suggested the orchid garden. It was a lot smaller than we\u2019d expected. The inside greenhouse was about the size of a basketball court, but the outside greenhouses were tiny.<\/p>\n
I broke my rule of not taking plant pictures and I took a picture of these weird plants. They put faces on them because they look like animals.<\/p>\n
We weren\u2019t that far from the Osu Kannon Temple so we decided to walk there<\/p>\n The shopping streets on the way were filled with discount shops but as we got closer to the temple the stores got more interesting. \u201cOmurice in a cup\u201d is a lot better than the discount blank DVDs or cheap cosmetics. It didn\u2019t take long to get to the temple, and while impressive it doesn\u2019t take a long time to check it all out.<\/p>\n Right next to the temple is a shop with Japanese dumplings and I think they were better last year. Last year I had to stand in a long line and they were a lot fresher. This year we were there early in the day and there wasn\u2019t anyone else there.<\/p>\n We took a taxi back to the station and I was having a good time talking to the driver and he forgot to start the meter! He told me about the two castles of the area and also that his brother is in San Francisco.<\/p>\n At the station we had another of Nagoya\u2019s famous foods, their chicken! Oyako don all around and I also had some tebasaki chicken wings.<\/p>\n We wandered around the station for a bit longer and got on the train to Tokyo.<\/p>\n We\u2019re in Tokyo now and I have a bunch of errands I may have to run. My sister\u2019s friend has something that she wants from a leather works store. A buddy wants an old jazz CD from a special store. And I\u2019m losing the battle of trying to keep from buying a nice watch. We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think it\u2019s getting close to time to go home. I\u2019m bowing while I\u2019m talking on the phone and when my sister asked me a question I started answering her in Japanese. Yeesh. Or it\u2019s that I stayed up too late watching some Japanese TV show. A lot of them start at 9PM and end at 11:20PM. I\u2019m not sure why, but I wish I had a DVR here. I\u2019m so used to getting up to go to the bathroom whenever I feel like it that this TV live thing is holding me down. I got up and we had the free breakfast down at the Toyoko Inn lobby which … Continue reading Japan Day 13<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n