{"id":284,"date":"2005-05-22T01:12:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-05-22T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T01:12:47","slug":"leaving_tokyo_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/leaving_tokyo_again\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Tokyo (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate this leaving crap!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always the case when you have a limited amount of time somewhere.  You try to visit different places while hitting all the familiar spots.  Well, I definitely visited someplace different this trip.  I visited the  Yasukuni Shrine.  I ran into a protest.  I saw more cops in one place than in all my previous visits.<br \/>\nThis is the shrine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/yasukuni.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/yasukuni.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/yasukuni-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a protester: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/protester.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/protester.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/protester-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd these are a bunch of Tokyo Metros who are covering the event.  A bit camera shy, very unusual for Japan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/jpcops.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/jpcops.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/jpcops-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYeah, that&#8217;s me, always trying to stay outta trouble.  Heh.<br \/>\nSpeaking of trouble, I stopped by Akihabara on my way to NRT.  They close the main drag on Sunday so it&#8217;s all cosplayers, musicians and otaku.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/akihabara.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/akihabara.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/akihabara-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd naturally, a lot of the people who hang out here on Sunday look like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/kawaii.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/kawaii.html','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/kawaii-thumb.jpg?resize=120%2C160\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLike I said, <strong>trouble<\/strong>! Next stop, HKG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate this leaving crap! It&#8217;s always the case when you have a limited amount of time somewhere. You try to visit different places while hitting all the familiar spots. Well, I definitely visited someplace different this trip. I visited the Yasukuni Shrine. I ran into a protest. I saw more cops in one place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/leaving_tokyo_again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaving Tokyo (again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}