{"id":1898,"date":"2012-09-22T05:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T11:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2012-09-22T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:19:57","slug":"yay-back-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/yay-back-in-tokyo","title":{"rendered":"Yay! Back in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we arrived in Tokyo, which is probably my favorite place on Earth. It’s about 7:45PM local time; we’ve been here since about 4:15PM. The journey was remarkably smooth and, by some fluke, we arrived at the hotel in a much more alert and energetic state than usual. On previous visits we’ve usually collapsed into bed by around 5:00, but this time we went out for a bit of shopping in Asakusa and then hit the nearby grocery store (one of a chain here named Life) for things like take-out sushi and two litres of our favorite bottled green tea. Fatigue and jet-lag are going to hit me hard soon, though, so this will be a brief entry.<\/p>\n

Without setting out to do so, I bought a new tea pot. There’s a litte shop in Asakusa that sells pots and other ceramic wares. I bought a pot from them several years ago and it became a favorite which I use almost every day. It was made by hand and the clerk made a point of drawing a map of Japan for me to illustrate where it came from. Last time we were here I sought out the shop but didn’t find anything that I had to have, so I figured another quick visit would be safe enough. I’m happy to say that I was wrong; I almost immediately spotted a pot that I had to buy.<\/p>\n

The Sky Tree is blue this evening. The porter who escorted us to our room mentioned that it’s a different color on weekends. Here’s a snapshot from our room:<\/p>\n

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\nNow I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we arrived in Tokyo, which is probably my favorite place on Earth. It’s about 7:45PM local time; we’ve been here since about 4:15PM. The journey was remarkably smooth and, by some fluke, we arrived at the hotel in a much more alert and energetic state than usual. On previous visits we’ve usually collapsed into… Continue reading Yay! Back in Tokyo<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2012-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}