{"id":9053,"date":"2011-03-12T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9053"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:39:42","slug":"rose-ho-reporting-from-japan-stuck-in-nikko-2011-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9053","title":{"rendered":"Rose Ho Reporting from Japan &#8211; Stuck in Nikko (2011.03.11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sendai in Japan is hit with a magnitude of 8.9 quake.\u00a0 Nikko is not too far from it.\u00a0 I am currently in Nikko&#8230;..stuck!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The station next to Sendai is the Toshugu Shrine station.\u00a0 The latter is where Nikko is.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>At 2:46 p.m., I was in the Nikko National Park and experienced first hand a strong quake.\u00a0 At first, I thought I was seeing things and feeling things.\u00a0 No!\u00a0\u00a0 Someone on the street said something in Japanese which I didn&#8217;t understand.\u00a0 The only word I caught was New Zealand.\u00a0 With some exchange in hand gestures, it confirmed that it was a serious earthquake which I experienced.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Check out the Internet to see the disaster in Sendai.\u00a0 Houses and whole pieces of land were swept down the water.\u00a0 Sendai is only about 2 or so hours&#8217; drive away.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I did not stay in the Emergency Shelter&#8230;.a school gym.\u00a0 It was cold, very cold.\u00a0 The police said no food would be provided.\u00a0 So, I decided to return to my Minshu (Family Hostel) and stay with my friendly host who speaks English and who can tell me what to do in case of a strong quake.\u00a0 There had been many quakes since.\u00a0\u00a0 All Ihope everything would be safe.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>There is no time schedule as to when trains back to Tokyo will resume.\u00a0 Fortunately, Nikko is 600 meter above SL, so the chance of being hit with a Tsunami would be slim.\u00a0 But the quakes are serious.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>With 5 layers of clothes waiting for the train the whole day in the open air, I still felt cold.\u00a0 It was freezing with the wind shield.\u00a0 Snow started to fall again.\u00a0 What a contrast to the fine weather of yesterday.\u00a0 Now when I look up at the active volcano (just nearby), I don&#8217;t have a good feeling.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This earthquake is a historical one for Japan.\u00a0 More quakes around the whole of Japan and more tsunami&#8217;s are expected.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sendai in Japan is hit with a magnitude of 8.9 quake.\u00a0 Nikko is not too far from it.\u00a0 I am currently in Nikko&#8230;..stuck! \u00a0 The station next to Sendai is the Toshugu Shrine station.\u00a0 The latter is where Nikko is. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,96],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-9053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-earthquake","category-travel","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}