{"id":33860,"date":"2014-06-17T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=33860"},"modified":"2014-06-17T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:36:18","slug":"heading-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/heading-to-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyo-kabukicho_2617_600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be leaving this Saturday morning on a two-week vacation to Tokyo. The last time I was there was in 2007. Plenty of folks expect that visiting another country should entail visiting cultural and historical sights. I believe that vacations are meant for enjoyment, so I intend to strictly do what I enjoy, which is geek out at anime shops, arcades, anime museums, and so forth. I&#8217;m very familiar with Nakano Broadway, the Shibuya Mandarake store, and Akihabara&#8217;s Chuo Dori (to a lesser degree the surrounding streets). So if any of you considerate readers are aware of other off-the-beaten-path anime shops, please inform me.  For example, this time around I&#8217;m eager to find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.plala.or.jp\/GODZILLAYA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gojiraya<\/a> shop in the Koenji ward.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if anyone knows of any shops that specialize in old trading cards, let me know. My Dancing Blade Seal Collection is still two cards short of a complete set.  Bothers the hell out of me.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning this weekend, periodically check AnimeNation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AnimeNation\/131673357244\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> for my photo album updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be leaving this Saturday morning on a two-week vacation to Tokyo. The last time I was there was in 2007. Plenty of folks expect that visiting another country should entail visiting cultural and historical sights. I believe that vacations are meant for enjoyment, so I intend to strictly do what I enjoy, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33863,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860\/revisions\/33863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}