{"id":825,"date":"2023-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:10:52","slug":"japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We finally made it to Tokyo, Japan.  The flight was exhausting, but not terrible.  We got checked into our hotel &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrk-hotels.co.jp\/Hibiya\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jrk-hotels.co.jp\/Hibiya\/\">The Blossom Hibiya<\/a>.  We loved it &#8212; the rooms weren&#8217;t too small, the bed was comfortable, the location was not far from a train station, the morning meal was delicious, the view from the lobby was just spectacular.  We will definitely stay here again, if we find ourselves back in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our fist full day in Tokyo, we went to Shibuya Scramble Crossing &amp; the Tokyo Skytree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our second full day in Tokyo, we visited the Sens\u014d-ji temple.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Japan\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=825\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally made it to Tokyo, Japan. The flight was exhausting, but not terrible. We got checked into our hotel &#8212; The Blossom Hibiya. We loved it &#8212; the rooms weren&#8217;t too small, the bed was comfortable, the location was not far from a train station, the morning meal was delicious, the view from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[80,82,81,83],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-travel","tag-japan","tag-senso-ji","tag-tokyo","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4950.HEIC_compressed.jpeg?fit=1707%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6YMpv-japan","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":147,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=147","url_meta":{"origin":825,"position":0},"title":"Tokyo Godfathers","author":"mhuffman","date":"January 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a new favorite holiday movie -- Tokyo Godfathers. \u00a0It's a story Christmas in Tokyo, Japan, where three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum find an abandoned newborn. \u00a0Then they go on a journey to return the baby to her mother and all sorts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tokyo_Godfathers_4.jpg?fit=1200%2C649&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tokyo_Godfathers_4.jpg?fit=1200%2C649&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tokyo_Godfathers_4.jpg?fit=1200%2C649&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tokyo_Godfathers_4.jpg?fit=1200%2C649&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tokyo_Godfathers_4.jpg?fit=1200%2C649&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":326,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=326","url_meta":{"origin":825,"position":1},"title":"\u72ac\u3092\u98fc\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059","author":"mhuffman","date":"August 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"So earlier this year, my wife showed me that tickets to Hong Kong were less than $1,000\/person round trip. 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