{"id":8303,"date":"2015-11-04T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2015-11-06T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:34:36","slug":"japan-2015-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2015 Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

I probably didn\u2019t sleep well last night because I didn\u2019t think I was going to sleep well last night. I didn\u2019t like the hotel much and that affected things. I kept hearing weird rumblings like there was a train station closer than it actually was. Maybe it was the subway. This hotel seems a lot better but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Breakfast wasn\u2019t bad. It was no Castle Hotel Fukuyama, but that place is special.<\/p>\n

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The only real weird thing is the cappuccino machine wouldn\u2019t shut off. I guess if you push the button three times it gives you 3x what you think and somehow it thought I pushed the button three times.<\/p>\n

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Before I left Kobe I made a quick trip to Ikuta Jinja because, well, it\u2019s kind of my thing.<\/p>\n

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After that it was off to Osaka. I left my bags at the hotel and took off for Dotombori-ish. I had to go to Nihonbashi and the National Bunraku Theatre to pick up my mom\u2019s calendar like I do every year. Bunraku is her thing. I stopped at the Mizukake Fudou because it\u2019s on the way. It\u2019s a Buddhist statue that people splash with water instead of going normal offerings, and it\u2019s covered in moss.<\/p>\n

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I wandered around the shopping streets of the area, including Kuromon Ichiba. Everywhere is geared toward Chinese tourists and there\u2019s plenty of them. I see way more Union Pay signs (a Chinese credit card) than Visa. I avoided them by going to places they were unlikely to be, like Yasaka Shrine or the kitchen shopping street.<\/p>\n

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Even the giant sporting goods store I was looking for has turned into a \u201ctax free\u201d Don Quixote discount store. It still says \u201cSpotaka\u201d on the top but it says \u201cDonQui\u201d on the front.<\/p>\n

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I made it back to Umeda and started my shopping for the family back home. There\u2019s a short list of things my mom and my sister want and it\u2019s going to take a bit to find it all. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

Oh, here\u2019s where I had dinner.<\/p>\n

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Because there was live music!<\/p>\n

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Check out what this girl bought. I asked what it was and she said, \u201cMinion!\u201d I asked what was inside and it was full of popcorn!<\/p>\n

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I probably didn\u2019t sleep well last night because I didn\u2019t think I was going to sleep well last night. I didn\u2019t like the hotel much and that affected things. I kept hearing weird rumblings like there was a train station closer than it actually was. Maybe it was the subway. This hotel seems a lot better but we\u2019ll see. Breakfast wasn\u2019t bad. It was no Castle Hotel Fukuyama, but that place is special. The only real weird thing is the cappuccino machine wouldn\u2019t shut off. I guess if you push the button three times it gives you 3x what you think and somehow it thought I pushed the button three … Continue reading Japan 2015 Day 8<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8303","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\/8303","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=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}