{"id":7477,"date":"2020-05-22T01:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2020\/05\/22\/honshu-2015-day\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T09:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T09:03:27","slug":"honshu-2015-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2020\/05\/22\/honshu-2015-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Honshu 2015 Day 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong>16 Oct 2015 Friday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had a 2nd family trip to Honshu, just a month after our last trip to Hong Kong in 2015 September. It could also be considered as our babymoon trip before we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2016\/04\/my-pregnancy-diary-the-arrival-of-my-boys\/\">welcome our boys<\/a>. My MIL also tagged along with us since she wanted to visit Japan too but couldn&#8217;t find a travel partner. As there were 6 of us, we thought that it would be cheaper to stay in Airbnbs and also to experience staying in traditional Japanese homes. It didn&#8217;t turn out as good as expected, due to some unforeseen and unhappy incidents towards the last few days of our trip. Will talk about this in my later posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Honshu itinerary based on our accommodations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SIN <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Osaka <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Nara <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Kyoto <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Shizuoka <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Hakone <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> Tokyo <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\"> SIN<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DAY 01<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(2).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leaving for Osaka! We caught the red-eye flight, SQ618 (SIN-KIX).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(3).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Managed to get a bit of sleep on the flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(4).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Arrived in KIX early in the morning. Picked up our rental car from Hertz and started our day with shopping at Rinku Premium Outlets!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rinku Premium Outlets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rinku Premium Outlets is just 5 mins drive away from KIX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(5).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">R had her share of fun at Rinku Premium Outlets&#8217; playground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(6).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We shopped until it was check-in time to our Airbnb house. It wasn&#8217;t easy to locate the house but we managed to find it in the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(7).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Living area<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(8).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Small dining area<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(9).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The kitchen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are 3 bedrooms in the house, 1 on the 1st floor, next to the kitchen and 2 on the 2nd floor. Each room on the 2nd floor has its own stairway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(10).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the bedrooms on the 2nd floor, normal beds but gave my parents this room because the stairway to this room didn&#8217;t have railing. Too dangerous for our baby R.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(11).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The other bedroom on 2nd floor &#8211; Japanese style room. We took this room, safe for R. No worries about her falling out of bed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(12).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bathroom<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(13).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bedroom on 1st floor for my MIL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(14).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our hosts left us a little welcome gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(15).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Little balcony at a corner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dotonbori &amp; Shinsaibashisuji<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Explored Dotonbori &amp; Shinsaibashisuji after taking a short rest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(17).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NO&#8230; we didn&#8217;t have dinner at Ichiran! We didn&#8217;t know its existence then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(16).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(18).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(19).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(20).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had dinner at a random restaurant since we didn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s good there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(21).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(22).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(23).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2015\/Travel\/201510_Honshu\/01\/01%20(24).jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was almost closing time when we finished our dinner so we didn&#8217;t really explore the area well enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/travel\/\">View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:16 Oct 2015 Friday We had a 2nd family trip to Honshu, just a month after our last trip to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7632,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}