{"id":8514,"date":"2016-10-27T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2016-10-27T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:57:12","slug":"japan-2016-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2016 Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day but we took it easy because we\u2019ve been out quite consistently all week. We started off at Tully\u2019s in the lobby of the MBS building. I never did see anyone famous walking through the lobby, but I bet they have their own entrance that normal people can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3636.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IIMG_3636.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3636\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it was a leisurely walk to the fabric store with a stop at a fantastic bakery with good ice coffee as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3637.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IIMG_3637.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3637\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While they all shopped at the fabric store, I just sat on a park bench. Other than the guy next to me smoking, it was a great day to be out in the park.<\/p>\n<p>We wandered through an even nicer park a couple of blocks from the fabric store when we saw this rock star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_20161026_210003.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IIMG_20161026_210003.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 20161026 210003\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that it was a walk back to Umeda and a quick pass through some stores and lunch at an okonomiyaki restaurant. I\u2019ve confirmed that I\u2019m not a huge fan of modanyaki (okonomiyaki with noodles).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3638.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IIMG_3638.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3638\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like I said, we were taking it easy today and went back to the hotel to relax. Lunch was late so dinner was ice cream!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3640.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IIMG_3640.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3640\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also got a sandwich on the way back to the hotel which I inhaled before I could get a picture of it. Katsu sando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day but we took it easy because we\u2019ve been out quite consistently all week. We started off at Tully\u2019s in the lobby of the MBS building. I never did see anyone famous walking through the lobby, but I bet they have their own entrance that normal people can\u2019t see. Then it was a leisurely walk to the fabric store with a stop at a fantastic bakery with good ice coffee as well. While they all shopped at the fabric store, I just sat on a park bench. Other than the guy next to me smoking, it was a great day to be out in the park. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan 2016 Day 7<\/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-8514","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\/8514","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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}