{"id":504,"date":"2008-04-21T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/04\/21\/arigato-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:42:42","slug":"arigato-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Arigato Japan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  my last day here in japan and heading to the airport now.  going to take a little break before heading back to hawaii.  this past 4 weeks have been awesome.  traveling around, seeing my old friends, meeting new friends, eating good food, i&#8217;ll surely miss it.  just wanted to thank everybody here that have been so kind to me.  i really enjoyed this trip and can&#8217;t wait to come back for typhoon season.  see you guys soon.  doomo arigato gozaimashita&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/220px-MatsushimaNanako.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ngot an email from a friend back in hawaii about my tokiwa takako blog.  don&#8217;t want to say his name because he might get into trouble.  anyway, he insists matsushima nanako is hotter.  yeah, she&#8217;s ok.  is she a new face?  see, i was hooked on japanese dramas back in the 90&#8217;s so if this actress was to walk by me, i wouldn&#8217;t even recgonize her.  i&#8217;m old school&#8230; haha&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/MihoNakayama06.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nso wendell, oh, sorry i said your name.  hope you don&#8217;t get into trouble.  haha&#8230;  what do you think about this actress\/singer miho nakayama?  she is pretty famous in japan.  i use to watch her drama&#8217;s and listen to her music a long time ago.  then about 4 years ago, i was drinking with some friends at side street inn late at night.  this girl walked by the table where i was sitting and i just felt an aura.  know what i mean? just felt this power or something.  i looked up and there she was, miho nakayama.  she gave our table a friendly smile as she walked past.  shit!  it was a trip to see one of my favorite actresses in some local hole in the wall bar in hawaii where i&#8217;ve never seen japanese people before.  it took me a few days to calm myself down.. haha&#8230;.<br \/>\nand speaking about dramas.  just found out that you can no longer watch &#8220;aishiteru to itte kure&#8221; drama on  youtube anymore.  they cut it off last night.  <font color=\"red\">This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.<\/font>   i thought that was pretty funny timing because i was just at episode 4.  now i have to buy the dvd..  and you too if you want to see how it ends&#8230;.  but who ever posted it on youtube 2 weeks ago, thank you very much.  i enjoyed it&#8230;<br \/>\n**for all you lost gaigin in japan, check out this site for the train time schedules.  i use it all the time when looking for a train to the airport&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jreast.co.jp\/e\/nex\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR NARITA EXPRESS AND SHINKANSEN TIME SCHEDULES&#8230;.<\/a><br \/>\n**and last, the TSSC USERS CONTEST GALLERY is up on <a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO-NAMINORI.COM&#8230;.  CHECK IT OUT&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. my last day here in japan and heading to the airport now. going to take a little break before heading back to hawaii. this past 4 weeks have been awesome. traveling around, seeing my old friends, meeting new friends, eating good food, i&#8217;ll surely miss it. just wanted to thank everybody here that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}