{"id":8411,"date":"2015-11-13T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2015-11-22T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:27:18","slug":"japan-day-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8411","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2015 Day 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to go home!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3474.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3474.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3474\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but my Paul Bassett coffee wasn\u2019t enough to keep me going on a day where I got up at 6:30AM JST on Thursday after a fitful night of sleep (due to drinking too many tasty Japanese microbrews) and went to bed around 4:30PM JST on Friday. My watch told me I got up at 6:30AM and went to sleep at 10:30PM of the same day, but that\u2019s what time zones will do for you.<\/p>\n<p>So these pictures are late.<\/p>\n<p>I also found out that taking my morning medications with Aquarius Lemon leads to an upset stomach. My check out time wasn\u2019t until 11AM and my flight wasn\u2019t until 5:30PM, so I had time to go to Paul Bassett for breakfast and do some last-minute shopping in Shinjuku at Yodobashi Camera and Odakyu\u2019s athletics department, though I didn\u2019t end up buying anything.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the airport very early because there\u2019s plenty of last-minute shopping and food BEFORE YOU GO THROUGH THE SECURITY GATE. Got to the airport early enough to do some shopping there and hit my usual exit lunch at Fujiya. This actually calmed my stomach. Also, see that empty coffee cup? They keep filling it up at the Fujiya in Narita, unlike most Japanese restaurants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3475.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3475.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3475\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the set also came with dessert because why not?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3476.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3476.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3476\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got back to Portland and had lunch in the middle of the night in Japan. I was fading fast and took a quick nap in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3478.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3478.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3478\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got close to eight hours sleep and I feel jet lagged. But it\u2019s good to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to go home! Sorry, but my Paul Bassett coffee wasn\u2019t enough to keep me going on a day where I got up at 6:30AM JST on Thursday after a fitful night of sleep (due to drinking too many tasty Japanese microbrews) and went to bed around 4:30PM JST on Friday. My watch told me I got up at 6:30AM and went to sleep at 10:30PM of the same day, but that\u2019s what time zones will do for you. So these pictures are late. I also found out that taking my morning medications with Aquarius Lemon leads to an upset stomach. My check out time wasn\u2019t until 11AM and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan 2015 Day 16<\/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-8411","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\/8411","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=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}