{"id":99,"date":"2004-02-18T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2022-08-12T20:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:34:46","slug":"the_golden_turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the_golden_turd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Turd!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you take the Ginza line from end to end, you&#8217;ll begin in Shibuya (yum yum!) and end in Asakusa. Not Akasaka, which I&#8217;ve had a horrible habit of confusing the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can tell you&#8217;re in Asakusa because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#1: There&#8217;s a river. Neat.<br><br>#2: The oldest western style tavern (since 1891) is here.<br><br>#3: You can see the Phillipe Starck designed &#8220;golden turd&#8221; when you come up from the subway and look towards the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" data-attachment-id=\"1888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the_golden_turd\/img_0397\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?fit=2272%2C1704&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2272,1704\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon DIGITAL IXUS 400&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1077116920&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;15.4375&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG 0397\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG 0397&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG 0397&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG 0397\" class=\"wp-image-1888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0397.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>That&#8217;s supposed to be the foamy head on a beer.  Hey, it was made in the Bubble Era.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually it&#8217;s called the Asahi Dry Golden Beer Hall or something like that. There&#8217;s a couple of restaurants inside but nothing like the Yebisu Beer Museum that I went to on my first visit here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take the Ginza line from end to end, you&#8217;ll begin in Shibuya (yum yum!) and end in Asakusa. Not Akasaka, which I&#8217;ve had a horrible habit of confusing the two. You can tell you&#8217;re in Asakusa because: #1: There&#8217;s a river. Neat. #2: The oldest western style tavern (since 1891) is here. #3: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the_golden_turd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Golden Turd!&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-02-hkg-and-nrt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-1B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}