{"id":783595,"date":"2011-03-30T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=783595"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:54:38","slug":"san-francisco-day-trip-japantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2011\/03\/30\/san-francisco-day-trip-japantown\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Day Trip: Japantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been to Chinatown and expected Japantown to be similar. \u00a0I was surprised to discover how different it was, and not in a bad way. \u00a0Japantown does not have the open markets, or the ornamentation on the buildings that Chinatown has, but the cool Japan centric shops are set within three or four small malls (we went into two).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5574146311_2bc0848cab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5263\/5574146679_3a8e309395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5574732904_8118528dd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have always appreciated the Japanese sense of order&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5139\/5574149505_fa84769f67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5092\/5574149889_81a877a38e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5177\/5574150187_e2f2ed443a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mural inside one of the malls&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5574150575_d65fb16953.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5254\/5574736050_a46740c3b7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like the name os this place&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5227\/5574152179_5105e9238c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went into a store that had a bunch of swords and weapons. \u00a0We bought the boys each a wooden samurai sword. \u00a0&#8216;R&#8217; slept with his and unfortunately rolled over it and broke it&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5302\/5574737396_24a6355cfe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We did not eat here, but it is a neat restaurant with little boats that go around the tables. \u00a0When you want the dish, take it from the little boat&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5310\/5574737738_3696e0da12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An incredible bookstore, most of which is all in Japanese&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5258\/5574738524_d538bf8777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We learned that Japanese books are printed to open from the &#8220;back&#8221;, and the writing is up to down, right to left&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5105\/5574154047_fac1609e51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Showing off their swords&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5224\/5574739310_df1cf8f2ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been to Chinatown and expected Japantown to be similar. \u00a0I was surprised to discover how different it was, and not in a bad way. \u00a0Japantown does not have the open markets, or the ornamentation on the buildings that Chinatown has, but the cool Japan centric shops are set within three or four small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}