{"id":382,"date":"2016-11-22T15:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:15:41","slug":"osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Osaka During the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting off from the Shenkensen, I made my way to my hotel using the subway (which is apparently different from the JR&#8230; but it also takes suica).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going to my hotel required me to go through Dontobori (during the day, which looks a lot different from night).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4861.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4861.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnfortunately, since I arrived at 1:30pm, they couldn&#8217;t give me a room without charging me extra (official check in time is at 3pm). So I just dropped my bags off, and headed for Osaka Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way to Osaka Castle, I stopped the Crystal building, which is a really tall building (maybe the tallest in Osaka?).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4862.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4862.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Castle itself was awesome to look at, and the view from the top was pretty sick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4888.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4888.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4894.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4894.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Data\/Application\/3E09DC6D-E613-4345-AFF7-9A881D8C3338\/Documents\/Media\/img_4913-thumbnail.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Data\/Application\/3E09DC6D-E613-4345-AFF7-9A881D8C3338\/Documents\/Media\/img_4913-thumbnail.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Osaka Castle I headed for the oldest Buddha temple, the Shitennoji Shrine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4936.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4936.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn my way to Sumiyoshi-Taisha shrine, I stopped by to get this fancy donut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4937.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4937.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4939.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4939.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4941.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4941.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4940.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4940.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn my way back to the hotel, i of course went through Dontobori. I decided to get some delicious Takoyaki, since everyone was selling it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4945.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_4945.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting off from the Shenkensen, I made my way to my hotel using the subway (which is apparently different from the JR&#8230; but it also takes suica).&nbsp; Going to my hotel required me to go through Dontobori (during the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[133,127,128,126,130,131,132,129],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-2016","tag-crystal-bullding","tag-dontobori","tag-holiday-inn","tag-osaka","tag-osaka-castle","tag-shitennoji-temple","tag-sumiyoshi-taisha","tag-takoyaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}