{"id":8763,"date":"2017-11-10T04:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2017-11-10T05:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:22:06","slug":"japan-2017-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2017 Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoo boy. I thought this quiet spot would allow me to get some sleep but no luck. For some reason my cold room got extra hot after I turned on the heat pump and set the temperature to be 20\u00b0C. That should be about 68\u00b0F. Anyway, we got up and went to get our breakfast. We picked the Japanese breakfast and this is what we got. The egg isn\u2019t cooked yet and there is a little block of Sterno or whatever heating the plate.<\/p>\n

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We had some time before we had to catch the train at 10:10AM, so we went for a walk to the beach. This is a couple of blocks from the Hikari train station and where my mom used to swim as a kid. No one swims here after the end of August even if the weather is nice because the water fills full of jellyfish.<\/p>\n

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It was a quick walk to the train station and just a few stops before we caught the shinkansen. I think there have been improvements to this train station, but, as you can see, there\u2019s not much to improve. There\u2019s no electronic ticket machine, but instead of the old-fashioned ticket punch, there\u2019s a pincer-style rubber stamp.<\/p>\n

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Two 20-minute Shinkansen rides later, we were in Fukuyama. We\u2019re really only here because we couldn\u2019t get rooms in Okayama. For once it\u2019s not because of Chinese tourists. It\u2019s because of the Okayama Marathon.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a whole lot to do here, but we got some tourist maps and stopped at Mister Donut to check them out.<\/p>\n

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First stop, which was a bust, was to try to find Fukuyama Craft Heart Brewery. Well, we found it but it seems to be someone\u2019s project in a garage space of the Benefit Hotel. The taps in the hotel restaurant didn\u2019t appear to be running and after a bit of a wait we were told we could buy bottles but that was about it. So we went walking through the overly quiet streets of Fukuyama on the way to Myooin Temple and Kusado Inari-Jinja. On the way we found ourselves in a \u00a5100 store and a Seven-Eleven.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a view from the Hoonjibashi Bridge. We were hoping to cross those red arched bridges in the middle of the picture, but they just appeared to lead from a road with no sidewalk to a highway with no sidewalk. I\u2019m not really sure what the point of them is.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Myo-o-in Temple, which according to the intarwebs<\/a>, was built in the 1300\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a pagoda next to the temple and here\u2019s a bad picture of it.<\/p>\n

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Very near the temple is Kusado Inari Jinja. I can find a lot more on the googles for the jinja, but it all appears to be pictures. I guess being temple red\/orange makes it more photogenic.<\/p>\n

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There are stairs to the upper temple that you can climb and get a nice view.<\/p>\n

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There was one group of business people at the temple and one family at the shrine. This is the opposite of what I saw in Tokyo and Osaka, and what seems to be happening all over Japan. The outlying areas are shrinking.<\/p>\n

We walked back to the hotel and Mariko did some laundry. I just read nonsense on the intarwebs, as I do.<\/p>\n

We went back to the station for dinner and I had unagi. I\u2019m not taking a picture of Mariko\u2019s fine maguro and avocado because it only cost a third of what I got. Hiroshima has weird ideas of how to eat unagi, and while I did use the tororo, I didn\u2019t do all the ochazuke stuff they expect you to do.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s about it for today. I\u2019m hoping for a quiet, uneventful night in this Toyoko Inn. Finger\u2019s crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoo boy. I thought this quiet spot would allow me to get some sleep but no luck. For some reason my cold room got extra hot after I turned on the heat pump and set the temperature to be 20\u00b0C. That should be about 68\u00b0F. Anyway, we got up and went to get our breakfast. We picked the Japanese breakfast and this is what we got. The egg isn\u2019t cooked yet and there is a little block of Sterno or whatever heating the plate. We had some time before we had to catch the train at 10:10AM, so we went for a walk to the beach. This is a couple … Continue reading Japan 2017 Day 10<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","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\/8763","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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8782,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}