{"id":8405,"date":"2015-11-11T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2015-11-11T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:57:09","slug":"japan-2015-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2015 Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expect this to be the least coherent of my entries for my trip to Japan in 2015.<\/p>\n

I got up this morning not know that exactly to do. I had several possibilities: buy a pair of $200 jeans at Momotaro in Koenji, eat a hamburger in Koenji, and go to the Cheese Festa in Ebisu.<\/p>\n

I talked to my sister, who talked me out of spending $1891 for a seat upgrade on my flight back to Portland. She also suggested I go to Hoshino Coffee for pancakes, but they didn\u2019t sell them until lunchtime.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately they sold French Toast in a breakfast set.<\/p>\n

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Then it really was off to Ebisu to the Cheese Festa. You got coupons to try four different cheeses, three of which weren\u2019t that great. It was also incredibly crowded.<\/p>\n

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The Cheese Festa was held in the Subaru building event space.<\/p>\n

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I realized Ebisu is also where Blacows is, the place that eataku has the best hamburgers.<\/p>\n

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Honestly it was a disappointment. It never seemed that great when I went there there three years ago and they\u2019ve only gone downhill since. They don\u2019t butcher the meat on-site and there\u2019s no longer any indication of which cow the meat came from. The meat tasted like Japanese hamburger meat (pork & beef?) and it was tough like if they salted the meat beforehand.<\/p>\n

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So after that I did what I usually like to do: wander around Tokyo. I went from Ebisu to Daikanyama, to getting lost in Shibuya. Look at the weird things I found.<\/p>\n

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I had to get coffee and this was smooth and had a peppery taste to begin with.<\/p>\n

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I also got a free energy drink on the way back to the train station.<\/p>\n

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The PDX beer bar made me want to buy some Japanese beers. I went to the Watering Hole in Yoyogi to start off.<\/p>\n

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They sent me on to Baird’s taproom.<\/p>\n

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And then I thought it would be a good idea to go to Zoetrope where I talked to a couple from London and a single guy from Manchester.<\/p>\n

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And that, so far, is that.<\/p>\n

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Expect this to be the least coherent of my entries for my trip to Japan in 2015. I got up this morning not know that exactly to do. I had several possibilities: buy a pair of $200 jeans at Momotaro in Koenji, eat a hamburger in Koenji, and go to the Cheese Festa in Ebisu. I talked to my sister, who talked me out of spending $1891 for a seat upgrade on my flight back to Portland. She also suggested I go to Hoshino Coffee for pancakes, but they didn\u2019t sell them until lunchtime. Fortunately they sold French Toast in a breakfast set. Then it really was off to Ebisu … Continue reading Japan 2015 Day 15<\/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-8405","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\/8405","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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}