It’s Sunday, and it’s time for more shopping. (Is this a shopping blog or something?)<\/p>\n
Well, I went back to Aeon Mall<\/strong> to get some supplies and dinner as well.<\/p>\n First I went to Aeon<\/strong>, which, by the way, is a confusing store at first. When I enter the first level, it always take me a few minutes to figure out my bearings, because the first floor is part grocery store, part drug store, part department store, and Mr. Donut<\/strong> (which the kids call “MisuDo.”)<\/p>\n See what I mean? It’s confusing!<\/p>\n I grabbed the escalator, and made it to the second floor, then the third, where the kitchen stuff is. I needed a few bowls and plates, because I decided it would be slightly nicer than eating off of plastic wrappers and plastic trays.<\/p>\n Plates are civilized.<\/em><\/p>\n I bought some cheap ones, then headed over to get some ink for my Frixion pens, and some extra paper.<\/p>\n I like the Frixion<\/strong> pens, because they erase really<\/strong> easily. Everyone in class uses them, and swears by them. When you heat up the ink with the silicone eraser, the ink turns invisible. I guess the heat switches the dye off? Better not leave my notes on the dashboard of a car!<\/p>\n I’ll take my chances for now.<\/p>\n After that, I wandered around the mall a bit, and headed to the book store, Miraiyashoten<\/strong>. This time, I bought some Kyoto travel guides. I want to go when the leaves are nice and red! These magazines will hopefully show me the good sites.<\/p>\n I did a lot of browsing there. I could drop a large amount of money in a Japanese bookstore.<\/p>\n But I restrained myself this time.<\/p>\n I went down to the food court and started looking for a restaurant, since it was close to dinnertime. I found Saboten<\/strong>, which specializes in Tonkatsu, one of my favorite dishes. So I had a Tonkatsu set and a Coke, and chowed down. That was good stuff.<\/p>\n After dinner, I wobbled on home on my bike. I stopped off at the big main post office to get some money. Nice that’s it’s still open at 6:30 p.m. on a Saturday. In the US, this is not a big deal. Here, it’s really nice. It’s so hard to tell if I’m going to be able to get money when I go to the post office. I suppose I should write the hours down somewhere, but that sounds too much like work. I’ve got plenty of that to do for class!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I headed down to Aeon Mall in Okazaki for a little shopping. I only got lost once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[496,541,423,23,558,899,894,828,557,100,895],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-travel","tag-aeon","tag-aeon-mall","tag-atm","tag-books","tag-dinnerware","tag-food","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-miraiya","tag-okazaki","tag-travel","category-3-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\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}