{"id":9824,"date":"2019-10-16T04:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T02:31:10","slug":"japan-day-43-tokushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9824","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 43: Tokushima"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I should probably plan some of this stuff better. I even tried really hard to sabotage my trip.<\/p>\n

I did start out OK with another breakfast at the Comfort Hotel. But jeez was the computer network bad there.<\/p>\n

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I got to the station in plenty of time to catch my first train.<\/p>\n

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Somehow, though, it was late to the transfer point. The next train was there but I misread the ticket and thought it left an hour later, not a minute later, and I missed it. I was stuck in a podunk little town that had nothing really going on.<\/p>\n

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I did find the one museum in town that was closed on Wednesdays. It\u2019s a tobacco museum. I\u2019m not sure what that\u2019s about BECAUSE IT WAS CLOSED. I met some Aussies who actually spent the night here and they told me this was pretty much it.<\/p>\n

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Well here\u2019s the train I had to take instead. All two cars. The train I missed was two cars as well, but I had an assigned seat and it would\u2019ve taken one hour and not 1 \u00bd hours. Not the worst mistake I\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n

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I finally made it to Tokushima. It\u2019s pretty big. The towns go on for a long while up the valley.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get to where I\u2019m going tomorrow, an onsen in the middle of nowhere and the Rise and Win brewery. People have heard of it, but I have to take three buses and one of the transfers is cutting it close.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0went to the Awa Odori museum and paid \u00a5680 for a 40 minute show on the dance they do during the yearly festival. They also show how it evolved over the years and show you how to participate. I did not participate. The audience dance winner was a 90-something woman!<\/p>\n

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I knew I\u2019d probably walk up the mountain behind the Awa Odori museum to the viewpoint. It started out with a bunch of stairs and so I thought it might be pretty easy. They told me it was a 30 minute walk. What they didn\u2019t tell me was that it was a 30 minute walk straight up the mountain for 680m and it was pretty rough. It just looks like this most of the way. I think the 100m marker was right after the stairs ended.<\/p>\n

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The view from the top was pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

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After that it was back to the hotel to really make sure of where I was going. I\u2019m heading into the hills to visit a brewery I\u2019m familiar with – the guys came to Portland a while ago. \u00a0I talked to the one taxi company that serves the area and they told me to just give it a try and then call them if I need them. I also had to figure out why my IP Phone app wasn\u2019t working. Skype worked, though, and I used that to call. It was kind of a big mess but fooling around with computers is what I do.<\/p>\n

I asked the front desk where to go to dinner and I didn\u2019t like their suggestions. I used google maps to find \u201ccraft beer\u201d again. I know I\u2019m going to a brewery tomorrow but I found another one to go to tonight. The beer was, well, it was OK. The food was tasty, though.<\/p>\n

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Local grilled chicken.<\/p>\n

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Fish and chips!<\/p>\n

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The brewpub was just on the other side of the river, and the river had three illuminated bridges.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s about it. I have to get on a bus at 9, transfer at 10, and hopefully transfer again at 10:55. All to see a brewery and I\u2019m not even sure the owner\u2019s going to be there tomorrow. Well, I know they have pretty good beer so it\u2019ll be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I should probably plan some of this stuff better. I even tried really hard to sabotage my trip. I did start out OK with another breakfast at the Comfort Hotel. But jeez was the computer network bad there. I got to the station in plenty of time to catch my first train. Somehow, though, it was late to the transfer point. The next train was there but I misread the ticket and thought it left an hour later, not a minute later, and I missed it. I was stuck in a podunk little town that had nothing really going on. I did find the one museum in town that … Continue reading Japan Day 43: Tokushima<\/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-9824","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\/9824","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=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10245,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}