{"id":12,"date":"2007-01-14T22:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-cubed.info\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-04-05T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T09:22:53","slug":"tourist-in-tokyo-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Tourist in Tokyo: Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having been to Paris many times I’ve never been up the eye-ful tower. I was skeptical about the worth of such things until I went on a flight around the London Eye a few years ago. So, I decided that I should visit the Tokyo Tower fairly early in my trip to Tokyo. Since John and Peggy Rae Sapienza are over from the US for a few weeks I arranged to meet them near the tower. Since they were staying out near Narita, we met at Hamamatsu-Cho station which was convenient for both of us coming in. Unfortunately it was a little further to walk than it looked on the map so John and Peggy Rae were a bit wasted later on in the day due to the initial walk. Still, we managed to find each other easily enough at Hamamatsu-Cho station and make our way without incident up to the Tower, John and I stopping to take some pictures at the Zojou-ji shrine on the way past (see the gallery<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Apparently, on a really clear day, one can see Fuji-san from the Tower. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a clear enough day so even the nearby mountains were little more than dimly-perceived misty shapes. I took quite a few photos of the view from the tower, out over Port of Tokyo and of the many skyscrapers visible (see the gallery<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A worthwhile thing to do if in Tokyo. Only 820 yen (adult) to go to the 150m observatory. There’s a higher level observatory at 250m, for a higher price, if you feel like being on top of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite having been to Paris many times I’ve never been up the eye-ful tower. I was skeptical about the worth of such things until I went on a flight around the London Eye a few years ago. So, I decided that I should visit the Tokyo Tower fairly early in my trip to Tokyo. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}