{"id":37576,"date":"2023-08-05T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=37576"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:01:57","slug":"yamatour2024day1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/yamatour2024day1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamatour 2024 Day 1 photo gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day101.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Flying into Haneda airport rather than Narita introduced me to some new ground features. That is not, in fact, a bridge to nowhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day101a.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s the point where you DRIVE UNDER TOKYO BAY on a tollway over to the other side. The &#8220;bridge&#8221; points almost directly toward Haneda airport. Amaze-balls!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day102.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I don&#8217;t love flying, but airports always impress me.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day103.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>After I got inside Tokyo, I got some of Tokyo inside of me. Surprisingly good tonkatasu at a little walk-up restaurant (just to the right of the Nakano Broadway entrance) called Tare-Katsu. Highly recommend. Will return in future. Why dropping words from sentences all sudden?<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day104.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>I suppose it was too much to ask for me to have her all to myself for a minute. See my onsite video report <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/472500978821172'>here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day105.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;or else?<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day106.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, Yoda has a place here.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day107.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>When you get enough weight into one of those Mandarake bags, the twine handle turns into razor wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug24\/yamatour2024day108.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, this many vintage anime magazines will do it for SURE.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/970a'>Return to previous article<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37920,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576\/revisions\/37920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}