{"id":10517,"date":"2012-12-30T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2012-12-30T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:39:32","slug":"new-years-eve-and-new-years-day-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/new-years-eve-and-new-years-day-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve (and New Year&#8217;s Day) in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10518\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/01162235-meiji-jingu-new-years-day-eve-oshogatsu-japan-tokyo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10518\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/01162235-meiji-jingu-new-years-day-eve-oshogatsu-japan-tokyo-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo new years celebration what to do in tokyo for the new year\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/01162235-meiji-jingu-new-years-day-eve-oshogatsu-japan-tokyo-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/01162235-meiji-jingu-new-years-day-eve-oshogatsu-japan-tokyo-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/01162235-meiji-jingu-new-years-day-eve-oshogatsu-japan-tokyo.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meiji Jingu on New Year&#8217;s Day &#8211; Tokyo, Japan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/happy-new-years-eve\/>Zojoji<\/a> has cancelled their annual, balloon release at midnight on New Year&#8217;s eve this year. If you are in or near Tokyo and looking for a crowd to celebrate with you can still head over to Meiji Jingu although there is no countdown there. There are loads of shrines and temples you can visit to hear the 108 bells rung at midnight or otherwise participate in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/hatsumode-%E5%88%9D%E8%A9%A3\/>Hatsumode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zojoji has cancelled their annual, balloon release at midnight on New Year&#8217;s eve this year. If you are in or near Tokyo and looking for a crowd to celebrate with you can still head over to Meiji Jingu although there is no countdown there. There are loads of shrines and temples you can visit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[204,315,30,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10519,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions\/10519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}