{"id":517,"date":"2006-08-25T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2006-08-25T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:19:23","slug":"at_nagano_station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/at_nagano_station\/","title":{"rendered":"At Nagano Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at JR Nagano eki making a transfer to the Asama 546 that will spirit me back to the fleshpots of Tokyo.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/naganoeki.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/naganoeki.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\/naganoeki-thumb.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/asama.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/asama.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\/asama-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had half an hour to kill and there was the small matter of the JR East Pass.<br \/>\nSeems that I miscalculated its validity.  It&#8217;s 5 days from the day of activation.  My original plan was to brave the Tokyo crush on Monday AM, getting out to NRT by 0900.  Problem was that since I activated my pass on Wednesday evening, it expires Sunday evening!<br \/>\nI considered my options.  Coughing up Y1050 for the Keisei Tokkyu and sleeping two hours on the train.  Or&#8230;<br \/>\nI could blow out of Tokyo on Sunday night, spend the night in Narita (the town, not the airport lah!) and use my JR East Pass to the very end!<br \/>\nWhich of course I&#8217;m going to do!  And since all of JR is networked and computerised, I simply went into the ticket office and asked for a N&#8217;EX ticket (in nihongo, I might add!) for Sunday night.  And the ticket was issued.  And still had 25 minutes to spare.  Depending on how things go on Sunday, I may head out there eariler.  Narita is one of those &#8220;places I&#8217;ve not been yet&#8221; and would fit in nicely with the theme of this trip&#8230;<br \/>\nAmazing how good customer service and an excellent rail system can make me, Joe Cranky traveller, uncranky!  Emphasis on the &#8220;good customer service&#8221;.  Ain&#8217;t finding either with Amtrak or UAL lah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at JR Nagano eki making a transfer to the Asama 546 that will spirit me back to the fleshpots of Tokyo. I had half an hour to kill and there was the small matter of the JR East Pass. Seems that I miscalculated its validity. It&#8217;s 5 days from the day of activation. My &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/at_nagano_station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At Nagano Station&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-08-nrt-kl-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-8l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}