{"id":3458,"date":"2009-11-06T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T02:27:02","slug":"an-evening-stroll-through-ginza-%e9%8a%80%e5%ba%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/an-evening-stroll-through-ginza-%e9%8a%80%e5%ba%a7\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening stroll through Ginza (\u9280\u5ea7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170948trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170948trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\u9280\u5ea7 ginza tokyo night japan\" title=\"\u9280\u5ea7 ginza tokyo night japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170948trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170948trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170948trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week we had our names selected from a drawing that we entered to attend the &#8220;Ginza International Jazz Festival.&#8221; The day before we got hit with the edge of a typhoon so the sky was particularly clear. The weather is never better in Tokyo than <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/tokyo-at-night\/>the day after a typhoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the festival, we walked around Ginza and had dinner at the Ginza Lion Beer Hall. Actually we were on the second floor in the \u30d3\u30e4\u30ec\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3 as the first floor was full in the no smoking section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165556trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165556trim-800x426.jpg\" alt=\"\u9280\u5ea7 sushi bikkuri tokyo japan ginza\" title=\"\u9280\u5ea7 sushi bikkuri tokyo japan ginza\" width=\"800\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165556trim-800x426.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165556trim-250x133.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165556trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bikkuri&#8221; means surprise. So how does this sushi surprise people? The taste is surprisingly good? What you get is a surprise? I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170546trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170546trim-450x800.jpg\" alt=\"ginza at night tokyo japan \u9280\u5ea7\" title=\"ginza at night tokyo japan \u9280\u5ea7\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170546trim-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170546trim-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27170546trim.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t have my LX3 on me as it takes much better pictures at dusk and after dark. These came out OK though given the clear air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165938trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165938trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"ginza tokyo japan \u9280\u5ea7\" title=\"ginza tokyo japan \u9280\u5ea7\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165938trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165938trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/27165938trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blue sky in these photos is completely real&#8211;not some Photoshop trick. The sky in Tokyo is super after a typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had our names selected from a drawing that we entered to attend the &#8220;Ginza International Jazz Festival.&#8221; The day before we got hit with the edge of a typhoon so the sky was particularly clear. The weather is never better in Tokyo than the day after a typhoon. Anyway, after the festival, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[175,241,131,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}