{"id":21915,"date":"2026-02-02T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:26:06","slug":"daily_3988_-_japan_day_6_-_ikebukuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/daily_3988_-_japan_day_6_-_ikebukuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3988 &#8211; Japan day 6 &#8211; Ikebukuro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our rental apartment is in Ikebukuro district, but we&#8217;ve barely seen any of it, apart from the routes to the two nearest metro stations.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a trip planned outside of Tokyo for later today, but in the morning we walked around a bit in Ikebukuro.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3988_Ikebukuro_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingrid visited Animate, a 7-storey manga superstore. I tried my best to occupy myself while waiting for her, but it became very boring fast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3988_Ikebukuro_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I browsed a bookstore. I was hoping that they might have something interesting in the knitting section. Japanese knitting books are quite different from Swedish ones. In Sweden, there are books like &#8220;Knit 20 sweaters&#8221; or &#8220;Knit for the home&#8221; or &#8220;Everything about socks and mittens&#8221;. Japanese knitting books were more based on vibes. &#8220;Here&#8217;s some cute stuff&#8221; &#8211; which could range from knitted sweaters to crochet flowers in the same book. If they want to knit a sweater, do they go through dozens of books to find a pattern?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3988_Ikebukuro_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our rental apartment is in Ikebukuro district, but we&#8217;ve barely seen any of it, apart from the routes to the two nearest metro stations. We&#8217;ve got a trip planned outside of Tokyo for later today, but in the morning we walked around a bit in Ikebukuro. Ingrid visited Animate, a 7-storey manga superstore. I tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,800,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-japan","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22167,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions\/22167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}