{"id":821,"date":"2010-01-07T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-01-07T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:55:35","slug":"damn_fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/damn_fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Fast (and Damn Nice)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending my last night in Tokyo at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miyakohotels.ne.jp\/tokyo\/english\/index.html\">Sheraton Miyako<\/a> in a standard room on the 6th floor.  A lower floor again but I get a view of the neighborhood.  The hotel is next door to a Toyopet dealership and at the bottom of the hill from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shirokanedai\">Shirokanedai<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shirokanedai_Station\">Station<\/a> off of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokyo_Metro_Namboku_Line\">Namboku Line<\/a>.  The lobby has an early 60s design that would fit in the world of Mad Men or \u82b1\u6a23\u5e74\u83ef.  It doesn&#8217;t look retro; it was probably how it was built many years ago and spotlessly maintained since. My room was recently remodeled and was quite comfy and plush.  I can only imagine how the &#8220;nice&#8221; rooms look like.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"miyako1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/miyako1.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The bed is awesomely firm, like most nice beds in Asia.  The opposite of North America&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"miyako2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/miyako2.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Nice desk and loafing couch.  I think that&#8217;s the same TV I have in my bedroom.<\/em><br \/>\nInternet here is free but wired.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/result\/675460155.png\">speed<\/a>!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.speedtest.net\/result\/675460155.png?w=525\"><\/a><br \/>\nDamn fast!<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSheraton Miyako<br \/>\n1-1-50 Shirokanedai Minato-ku<br \/>\nTokyo, Japan 108-8640<br \/>\nPhone: +81 3 3447 3111<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending my last night in Tokyo at the Sheraton Miyako in a standard room on the 6th floor. A lower floor again but I get a view of the neighborhood. The hotel is next door to a Toyopet dealership and at the bottom of the hill from the Shirokanedai Station off of the Namboku &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/damn_fast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Damn Fast (and Damn Nice)&#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":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lodging-stories","category-misc-japan-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-df","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}