{"id":1832,"date":"2009-12-31T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/?page_id=1832"},"modified":"2009-12-31T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T06:50:21","slug":"xmas-holidays-in-japan-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/xmas-holidays-in-japan-part-2","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Holidays in Japan, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

To finish up from yesterday’s post, I headed down to \u540d\u53e4\u5c4b Nagoya on a night bus for Xmas day.<\/p>\n

The night bus leaves from Tokyo at around 11 PM and arrives to Nagoya around 5 AM. It’s mostly miserable and I only recommend it if you have very little money and have no problems sleeping sitting upright. I have problems sleeping while sitting up, so I made sure to pick up some:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Taurine Eyedrops<\/a>. Oh yeah!<\/p>\n

I visited some friend’s of friends and relatives of theirs and possibly a cat or two during the day, it was pretty uneventful. Although, I did have some fantastic Japanese, home-cooked meal:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

That’s some fresh<\/em> sashimi, some chicken and some other un-named stuff on top of rice. It was even better than I just described it.<\/p>\n

I also finally picked up a Japanese Playstation Network Card so I could start playing some downloadable Japanese games on my PSP. While browsing the PSP store (which is absolutely god-awful in any language, they really need to figure out how to categorize things, be able to browse by developer, and have relevant products\/search results…) I found this gem:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

It’s a \u713c\u8089 Yaki-niku game. Yakiniku is one of the many popular ways to eat in a restaurant where you cook your own food at a table. I know, I know, it sounds silly to most westerners.<\/p>\n

In any case, Yakiniku is really tasty and kinda fun. However, as a video game? That means it’s a game centered around cooking food on a grill (without a touch-screen to boot). But I’m thinking, with some slight tweaks (add burgers, steaks, bikini, mud, wrestling, and beer) it would be a hit <\/em>with western audiences \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

That evening, I went to Nagoya station to check out the town.<\/p>\n

Around Nagoya Station there is a big department store called Takashimaya and it had a pretty impressive light display, such as the first pic at the top…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

… and bunch of anime and manga characters dressed up in light stuff too. This is Crayon Shin-chan, one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

I finished up the rest of Xmas festivities with the classic tradition of imbibing poisonous liquids to the point of stupidity at an Iazkaya.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And met this crazy dude. I think his name was \u30b7\u30f3\u30da\u30a4. He was cool. He was also impressed with my Street Fighter 4 abilities, until we had to go sing Karaoke<\/a>… which lasted until 5AM. So… long night \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ah, it’s Happy New Years in less than 10 minutes (back home)! Umm… something to celebrate…. ah, I got it, here!<\/p>\n

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(closest thing I could come up with to fireworks or balls dropping)<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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