{"id":7299,"date":"2009-12-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/meals-with-a-view\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:46:07","slug":"meals-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/meals-with-a-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Meals with a View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4964-kkr-hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4964kkrhotel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4964-kkr-hotel\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" align=\"right\" \/> I\u2019ve remarked on this blog here that Restaurant Matsuri at my hotel enjoys a magnificent view of the castle both by day and night.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been able to show pictures of this from within the restaurant itself so far, as I\u2019m usually just rushing out of the hotel each early morning to make the 7:40 AM train, and the restaurant itself only opens at 7:00 AM for breakfast every morning \u2013 and that\u2019s not counting the 18 minutes it takes for me to walk to the train station itself. Breakfast, in other words, for all my teaching days is a mad rush.<\/p>\n<p>Still, my Thursday activities started an hour later than normal yesterday, so I managed to enjoy a more leisurely breakfast that morning, and also take a few quick pictures. Most mornings I get to occupy my usual table, which is a nice private spot at the corner of the restaurant with a great view of the castle and it near the breakfast spread too.<\/p>\n<p>The other picture below is a HDR composition merged from 5 pictures, taken from the balcony garden beside the restaurant. Yep I had to step out into the freezing cold for a couple of minutes, put the D300 on bracket + high-speed drive mode exposures, fired away, and ran back into the warm restaurant interior.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4977-kkr-hotel-hdr-26-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4977kkrhotelhdr26flickr1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4977-kkr-hotel-hdr-26-flickr\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve remarked on this blog here that Restaurant Matsuri at my hotel enjoys a magnificent view of the castle both by day and night. I haven\u2019t been able to show pictures of this from within the restaurant itself so far,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/meals-with-a-view\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Meals with a View<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[207,463,237,137],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-traveling","tag-hdr","tag-japan-2010","tag-kumamoto-2009","tag-d300","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}