{"id":271,"date":"2016-02-15T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/2016214my-valentine-drive-in-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:03:19","slug":"2016214my-valentine-drive-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/2016214my-valentine-drive-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine drive in Tokyo ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1895.0\" alt=\" View of Tokyo bay from the dino bridge \u00a0 \"><figcaption> View of Tokyo bay from the dino bridge &nbsp; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a rainy and windy morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sun finally showed up, it was incredibly warm, so we decided to go for a (Valentine) drive ;). You know like they do in the Japanese drama&#8230; Ahahah! Except that ours was a little twisted, we always love to visit industrial areas!! So this time we picked a scenic route through the city that leads us to the &#8220;dinosaur&#8221; bridge, a bridge that was opened a few years ago in the bay and that we&#8217;ve never taken so far. Eventually the route we took was a (romantic) garbage and waste collection route since we&#8217;ve passed all Tokyo dumpsters that happen to all be on the newer islands in the sea front with a beautiful view all with names that try to conceal the hideousness of their finction: Yumenoshima (Dream island), Wakashu (Young land)&#8230;!! Actually Yumenoshima-\u5922\u306e\u5cf6 is worth a trip for itself for its little museum on nuclear tests in the Pacific and the sadly famous wreck of the Daigofukuryu-\u7b2c\u4e94\u798f\u7adc. The route we took was passing also right next to Haneda airport, so planes were just flying over ours heads at low altitude! Kind of love that! Finally we crossed the bay arrived in Heiwajima and Shinagawa&#8217;s warehouses and containers warf, for the industrial part of the ride, passed the water sewage and recycling plant and drove to Tokyo tower, before heading to Mitsukoshi to buy ourselves some little Japanese sweets: plum jelly and sakura manju and watch the sunset from home. Happy Valentine! Hope your Sunday was a good one!!!<\/p>\n<p>PS: I also prepared the classic &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyoparissisters.com\/4hands\/2015\/02\/japanese-valentine.html?rq=Valentine\">chocolate truffles<\/a>&nbsp;for Valentine!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/56c1254445bf218b7f4b4b9b\/1455498566135\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View of Tokyo bay from the dino bridge &nbsp; After a rainy and windy morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sun finally showed up, it was incredibly warm, so we decided to go for a (Valentine) drive ;). You know like they do in the Japanese drama&#8230; Ahahah! Except that ours was a little twisted, we always love to visit&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/2016214my-valentine-drive-in-tokyo\/#more-271\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[328,359,367,346],"tags":[437,26,438,413,178,70,439,105],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}