{"id":8363,"date":"2015-11-07T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2015-11-07T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T14:46:49","slug":"japan-2015-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8363","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2015 Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day for a nap. It started out a little rainy and cold and ended up just humid most of the day. For that reason I was looking for more caffeine (again). I started out with a different \u00a5490 morning set at Pronto who had the same deal on Saturday. I think I saw some cheaper sets elsewhere but I\u2019m not sure they were as good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3416.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3416.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3416\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to take a leisurely walk down Nakanoshima because, why not? When I got to the end I noticed I was almost to Osaka Castle again. I went the opposite direction and found myself at the end of the Tenjinbashi Shopping arcade (the longest in Japan they say).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3417.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3417.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3417\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I just headed back to Umeda. On the way I was tempted by this coffee cup but am I really the kind of guy who has a $60 coffee cup?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3419.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3419.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3419\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Umeda was crowded, so I stated to the outskirts. My sister suggested a curry restaurant that ended up being in a semi-seedy building and the seating was all crammed in at a counter. So I tried something else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3421.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3421.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3421\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that I walked back to the hotel but my room wasn\u2019t clean yet. I went to Starbucks to kill an hour and found myself falling asleep. When I woke up I noticed other people were doing the same thing. I think it\u2019s the weather.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening I met an old co-worker for dinner. He took me to a cheap tempura place that was tasty and we talked at a coffee shop. Then he took me driving around my old haunts and that was my last day in Osaka!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day for a nap. It started out a little rainy and cold and ended up just humid most of the day. For that reason I was looking for more caffeine (again). I started out with a different \u00a5490 morning set at Pronto who had the same deal on Saturday. I think I saw some cheaper sets elsewhere but I\u2019m not sure they were as good. I decided to take a leisurely walk down Nakanoshima because, why not? When I got to the end I noticed I was almost to Osaka Castle again. I went the opposite direction and found myself at the end of the Tenjinbashi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan 2015 Day 11<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-8363","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\/8363","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=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}