{"id":1680,"date":"2013-01-07T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2013-02-09T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T00:25:55","slug":"otaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2013\/01\/07\/otaru","title":{"rendered":"Otaru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satisfied with our skiing, we descended the mountains back to the coast. On our way back to Saporro, we stopped at the smaller town of Otaru. It used to be a busy herring port in the early 1900s, and has great examples of victorian architecture. We stayed in a former bank, but sadly the vault was booked.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\">\n<a title=\"Ruth and Otaru cannal\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8213\/8361367412_d5794814ce_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth and Otaru cannal\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8213\/8361367412_d5794814ce_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Ruth and Otaru cannal<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>We walked along the canal and through the old downtown to a small six seat restaurant. The owner told us it was &#8220;lamb only&#8221; as if that would be a problem. It was not. After greasing the grill with a bit of lamb fat, she let us cook our own thinly sliced delicious lamb, leeks, and crunchy bean sprouts. Washed down with fresh Sapporo beer, it was a filling meal.<\/p>\n<p>Back towards the hotel, we stopped to take a picture at the canal in the falling snow. Since it was quite cold, and we feel like walking much further, I ducked into another restaurant for a second meal. We proceeded to have the second best fresh fish of the trip, with gigantic crab hairy crab legs, succulent sea urchin, and plenty of hot sake. I may have embarrassed myself slightly by incorrectly cracking the crab, but the staff was very helpful and friendly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Second dinner of sushi\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8190\/8361366462_96b1a082bc_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" alt=\"Second dinner of sushi\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8190\/8361366462_96b1a082bc_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Second dinner of sushi<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"First dinner at lamb restaurant\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8072\/8360304949_5dccaa58f2_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" alt=\"First dinner at lamb restaurant\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8072\/8360304949_5dccaa58f2_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>First dinner at lamb restaurant<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satisfied with our skiing, we descended the mountains back to the coast. On our way back to Saporro, we stopped at the smaller town of Otaru. It used to be a busy herring port in the early 1900s, and has great examples of victorian architecture. We stayed in a former bank, but sadly the vault [&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":[79],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-hokkaido"],"geo":{"latitude":43.1907158,"longitude":140.9946594,"description":"Otaru, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}