{"id":66,"date":"2003-11-25T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T00:08:24","slug":"rain_and_foilage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/rain_and_foilage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain and Foilage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (Monday) is Japan’s Thanksgiving Day, a national holiday.<\/p>\n

Everything official was closed but everyone was out to enjoy the scenery that Kyoto is famous for.<\/p>\n

I went to a famous soba restaurant<\/a> that has been around for about 300 years in the same location. Yummy but pricey…<\/p>\n

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After lunch, I took a stroll in the Eastern part of Kyoto in the big park and toured some temples.<\/p>\n

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And as soon as I left, the skies opened up. Rain and rain and rain.<\/p>\n

When I got back to J-Hoppers, there wasn’t a lot to do because it was raining. Myself and two others wound up going to a Sento (public bath), grabbing dinner and ending the evening with shochu and beer at 0300.<\/p>\n

That’s not good because I have to get up early on Tuesday to visit the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Getting up early….brrrrrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today (Monday) is Japan’s Thanksgiving Day, a national holiday. Everything official was closed but everyone was out to enjoy the scenery that Kyoto is famous for. I went to a famous soba restaurant that has been around for about 300 years in the same location. Yummy but pricey… After lunch, I took a stroll in … <\/p>\n

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