{"id":69,"date":"2024-09-16T01:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2024-09-16T01:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:28:20","slug":"timezones-are-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Timezones are wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>9\/15 &#8211; teamLabs Borderless and Shopping, then Dinner!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>11 AM Heading to teamLabs Borderless. Probably going to spend a lot of time there<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m planning on exploring Tokyo and just like walking around and shopping a ton, idk lol<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6:30 PM Izekaya with a bunch of dudes I met from reddit\/discord\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Probably gonna try to get them to go to nijikai or sanjikai or even yonjikai lmao<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Reality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I won&#8217;t spoil anything here lol because I was also surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excited for teamLabs!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I went to teamLabs yesterday! (spoiler alert: I stood at the gate and looked at my ticket for tomorrow like an idiot.) Like&#8230; You buy the ticket but you make your itinerary at home and it&#8217;s like you&#8217;re off by half a day so anyway ugh lmao second time I&#8217;ve messed up some time zone thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The place was kinda hard to find so I&#8217;m glad I did the walk tbh. But then my pedometer wasn&#8217;t on and I walked all the way from Azabudai Hills to the Don Quixote in Roppongi taking a lot of back streets to kind of get a feel for Tokyo residents&#8217; daily lives. It was tough and I was sweating a TON. Didn&#8217;t collect any exercise data for it, but I sure collected several L&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don Quixote<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I spent like \u00a5115,000 on a bunch of junk and a lot of weird snack foods I wanted to try. The store is crazy. It&#8217;s like &#8220;Building 19&#8221; or &#8220;Spags&#8221; but has like, adult toys and stuff too lol. I feel like it&#8217;s the embodiment of AliExpress but in physical form and with Japanese stuff instead of Chinese. So anyway, I bought some weird foods. I may make a blog post about it so I don&#8217;t want to spoil it. I already started the post but haven&#8217;t finished it because I made I made my first vlog doing the food reviews. Vlogs are cursed and I&#8217;m not doing them moving forward lmao. Anyway, after Don Qui &#8211;and sweating a ton&#8211; is when I decided to go back to my hotel and make said vlog. I also wanted to refresh and recharge before our group dinner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yakitori at Torikizoku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a reservation for 7 at Torikizoku for 18:30, one of us ended up being late but I got there like 10 mins early. That train station is like, actually factually enormous. There&#8217;s a whole shopping mall underground there with several subfloors. Anyway so I met some new people from the discord, and Kai was there. I tried chicken heart and it was <em>really<\/em> good. I tried chicken liver and it was&#8230; Well just like beef liver. I almost yakked lol. Kai ate my share of the dish as well, like a champ. Then we had chicken skin, which was great and some fried chicken breast, which was tender and delicious. I ordered a rice bowl with an egg and I didn&#8217;t realize you&#8217;re supposed to like&#8230; Well anyway I didn&#8217;t know what I was doing and it was a bit embarrassing. But that&#8217;s just something I&#8217;ve gotten used to at this point lmao. Then we ate a donut at Mr. Donut, and it was pretty good! Kinda pricy at \u00a5197, didn&#8217;t feel worth the price but it&#8217;s always good to try something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Golden Gai and Kabukich\u014d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden Gai is small as heck. All the YouTubers make it look like this incredibly wonderful place where it&#8217;s like a cyberpunk paradise that goes on for miles. It&#8217;s definitely a sea of tourist traps. Maybe it&#8217;s a pond&#8230; Anyway, heaven forbid you get a drink, you&#8217;ll pay 1.75x to 2.5x the price as anywhere else. Strong Zero is like $1 (\u00a5140) and it&#8217;s 9% and delicious. Anyway after taking in the visuals of Golden Gai, we went to Kabukich\u014d for more&#8230; &#8220;Visuals&#8221; lol. You&#8217;ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005398-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Near Kabukich\u014d before the red light district<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kabukich\u014d is a paradise for debauchery. It has gambling, overpriced food, sexytime massages and getting roofied and having all your money stolen. I&#8217;m gonna go back to play some pachinko for fun and go to a bar I&#8217;ve been meaning to called &#8220;Deathmatch in Hell&#8221;. It was closed when I went. Sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We went to an arcade and I played some sick rhythm game called like Jubeat. It was fun! I actually knew some of the songs haha. Kinda cool. They do online play vs other people in other arcades and I got absolutely crushed lol. Then 1 of our friends had to go home and then another and slowly it just became me and Kai hanging out. So I was like alright, let&#8217;s fkn find a bar. BUT IT WAS RAINING AND I DIDN&#8217;T HAVE AN UMBRELLA SO WE WENT TO FAMILY MART LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND SOME ASSHOLE BOUGHT 4 UMBRELLAS. Why is this allowed? ( ;_;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Deathmatch was closed, I convinced Kai to come with me to another one that my friend Joe from back home recommended called &#8220;Godz&#8221;. It wasn&#8217;t that far so we just dealt with the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a heavy metal bar and yes&#8230; it was dope as hell. (Pun intended)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005423-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000005420-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(This beer was overpriced and mediocre.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I quickly downed my Satan beer and then followed this with slowly sipping a \u00a51500 Talisker neat and finished up with a \u00a51300 pint of asahi super dry before the last train home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Last Train Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a pain in the ass lol. Like, trains aren&#8217;t regularly going where they usually do and it&#8217;s absolutely jam packed with everyone else who stayed out too late. I mean, where I&#8217;m staying is actually really nice, very far from the city center and never packed. It also has a direct line to both Shinjuku and Shibuya station via the Rinkai line and the hotel was pretty cheap. I <em>definitely <\/em>feel it with the train fees though&#8230; I started with like \u00a510,000 on my Suica and I&#8217;m down to like, \u00a51600. I mean I use it for like, literally everything so it&#8217;s not just train rides, but it&#8217;s like sometimes $20\/day because I have to head back to shower. Idk what sent\u014d fees are but maybe I&#8217;ll just hit public baths instead&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I have a smoking room so I bought a pack of cigs and a lighter and had one in my room last night. Ngl, it was kinda nice. That said, maybe 1 a day at the most. Probably zero. I really don&#8217;t need it. I essentially just bought it as a prop I can use to smoke inside or a way to meet people when I&#8217;m solo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that was yesterday! I usually write these in the morning because nothing in Japan opens before 11am. Turns out teamLabs does and I&#8217;m stupid because I should have booked for like 9am and then by the time I come out it&#8217;d be 11. I guess fortunately for you, dear reader, it&#8217;s afforded me enough time to type this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 &#8211; Don&#8217;t say anything the itinerary says is interesting&#8211; or good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,14,11,9],"tags":[28,27,3,18,26,16,4],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-japan","category-location","category-tokyo","category-travel","tag-arcade","tag-gambling","tag-japan","tag-meetup","tag-sketchy","tag-tokyo","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trentonbollinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}