{"id":52,"date":"2007-11-11T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:21:22","slug":"oedo-line-induced-migraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Odaiba"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up feeling really crummy today. But I decided to head to Odaiba anyway. (Bad idea.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I should have had a clue when I was feeling wonky riding the subway… but I didn’t. I pressed on.<\/p>\n

The longer I rode the Oedo Line, the worse I felt.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ride for 15-20 minutes with the\u00c2\u00a0 wheels screeching all the time, even in the straight stretches.\u00c2\u00a0 The sound just went right through my ears and into my brain, making me dizzy. I kept on going to Odaiba, though, because sometimes I’m more stubborn than smart. <\/span><\/p>\n

I changed to the Kamome monorail at Shinsaibashi:<\/p>\n

\"Shinbashi--<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shinbashi--<\/a><\/p>\n

You can kind of see the station here:<\/p>\n

\"Shinbashi--<\/a><\/p>\n

And here:<\/p>\n

\"Shinbashi--<\/a><\/p>\n

Odaiba is weird. It’s totally different from the rest of Tokyo. It’s got a lot of empty space in between these giant buildings. It just feels… odd. Now I get why it’s seen the way it’s seen– as something sort of artificial. (Well, it IS a man-made island, but still…) It has the feel of a large corporate office park. Sort of like Las Colinas, TX, in case you’ve ever been there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I rode the monorail to Ariake, to check out the Panasonic building:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Odaiba--Ariake<\/a><\/p>\n

Panasonic Building<\/p>\n

\"Odaiba--Ariake<\/a><\/p>\n

More Panasonic:<\/p>\n

\"Odaiba--Ariake<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I walked to Tokyo Big Sight (a very large exhibition complex)<\/p>\n

\"Tokyo<\/a><\/p>\n

Saw a saw sculpture in front:<\/p>\n

\"Tokyo<\/a><\/p>\n

Then came back to the hotel. I had planned on doing a bunch of stuff there, but I was just feeling lousy.<\/p>\n

I’ve been lying down in my room all day for the most part. I guess it was a case of just pushing myself too hard or something. Anyway, I should feel better by tomorrow. My plans for Monday are going to be severely scaled back. I don’t want to make it worse. <\/span><\/p>\n

My mission will be accomplished if I can make it to Akihabara and get my goods. Anything else after that is gravy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides, I plan on coming back here, so I need to leave some stuff on the plate, you know?<\/p>\n

On the upside, I’m glad my hotel room is so nice. It’s made feeling like poo a lot more bearable.<\/p>\n

Guess I should go hunt down dinner now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up feeling really crummy today. But I decided to head to Odaiba anyway. (Bad idea.) I should have had a clue when I was feeling wonky riding the subway… but I didn’t. I pressed on. The longer I rode the Oedo Line, the worse I felt.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ride for 15-20 minutes […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,823,5],"tags":[332,894,827,331,895],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-photos","category-travel","tag-big-sight","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2007","tag-odaiba","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-823-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}