{"id":1611,"date":"2013-01-04T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:26:15","slug":"ito-and-the-jogaski-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2013\/01\/04\/ito-and-the-jogaski-coast","title":{"rendered":"Ito and the Jogaski coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With one more day left on our rail pass, we thought, why not take an unplanned excursion? We had intended to go back to Tokyo, but I am loving the small towns and the ryokan accommodations. We looked in Lonely Planet for a day trip from Tokyo, and were not disappointed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Ito Onsen\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8516\/8349275874_b3132613ca_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" alt=\"Ito Onsen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8516\/8349275874_b3132613ca_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Ito Onsen<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ito is another hot-spring town, but the air isn&#8217;t as cold and the water isn&#8217;t as warm in Yudanaka. We stayed in K&#8217;s House Ito Onsen, which is one of a small chain in Japan. Their Kyoto branch was comfortable and clean, if a bit backpacker-ish. The Ito branch is lovely, in a 100 year-old restored bathhouse, with views of the river through the classic paper windows. We asked for a recommended place to eat, and ended up eating basashi, or horse sashimi (much better than in Slovenia).<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Kadowakizaki Point\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8327\/8349693082_d750d27449_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" alt=\"Kadowakizaki Point\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8327\/8349693082_d750d27449_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Kadowakizaki Point<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before going back to Tokyo for our long train ride, we went a little further down the coast for a quick hike. The rock here is volcanic, which made some nice features as the erosion meets the sea. Not quite as impressive as Big Sur, but I might be a little spoiled on California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one more day left on our rail pass, we thought, why not take an unplanned excursion? We had intended to go back to Tokyo, but I am loving the small towns and the ryokan accommodations. We looked in Lonely Planet for a day trip from Tokyo, and were not disappointed. Ito Onsen Ito is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"geo":{"latitude":34.9656715,"longitude":139.1019287,"description":"Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}