{"id":5056,"date":"2024-10-17T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2024-10-17T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:05:12","slug":"we-are-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/17\/we-are-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Our flight arrived in Tokyo on time at 1:15 p.m., we cleared customs and made our way to the main hall to buy metro tickets. It was a scramble to find the right line, the right ticket, and the right train. Can you find Larry in the crowd?<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_5073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5073\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5073\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2005-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tokyo Airport &#8211; Buying Tickets to the City Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>We did get tickets and promptly got on the wrong train! After a few stops we realized our mistake, regrouped, and eventually found our way to the station nearest our hotel\u2026<strong>Shimbashi Station.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Our hotel is the Ginza neighborhood. The room is small and efficient as is common in Japanese hotel rooms. Nearby is a 7 Eleven, a Family Mart, and a Lawsons\u2026all convenience shops that sell take out foods, toiletries, and snacks.<\/p>\r\n<p>We have a nice night time view of this part of the city.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_5074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5074\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5074\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2011-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tokyo at Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>It\u2019s Friday morning here and the day is cloudy with rain in the forecast. We will take our umbrellas \u2614\ufe0f , pack our plastic ponchos, and head out soon.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_5075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5075\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5075\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2016-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloudy Friday in Tokyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>We had a good nights sleep and we\u2019re ready to explore!<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our flight arrived in Tokyo on time at 1:15 p.m., we cleared customs and made our way to the main hall to buy metro tickets. It was a scramble to find the right line, the right ticket, and the right train. Can you find Larry in the crowd? We did get tickets and promptly got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/17\/we-are-in-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Are in Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-and-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}