{"id":1267,"date":"2008-11-17T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-05-05T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:50:30","slug":"ueno-park-%e4%b8%8a%e9%87%8e%e5%85%ac%e5%9c%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/ueno-park-%e4%b8%8a%e9%87%8e%e5%85%ac%e5%9c%92\/","title":{"rendered":"Ueno park \u4e0a\u91ce\u516c\u5712"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1124trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1268\" title=\"ueno park\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1124trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1124trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1124trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1124trim.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ueno Park (\u4e0a\u91ce\u516c\u5712) in Tokyo is famous for its cherry blossoms. Unfortunately, we were a bit too early (in late March) to see many. Another week or two and this road would have been really spectacular. The fact that there weren&#8217;t many blossoms didn&#8217;t seem to deter the Japanese from having all sorts of <em>hanami<\/em> (\u82b1\u898b, flower viewing) parties.<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely at this picture (maybe after clicking on it so it becomes larger) you&#8217;ll see hundreds of bins for recycling on either side of this road. It&#8217;s rare that you see trash bins in Japan even though things are cleaner than just about any place on earth. But in Ueno Park during the<em> hanami <\/em>season there are more recycling bins than anywhere I&#8217;ve seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The sign on the lower right says \u305d\u3046\u8cc7\u6e90 \u5225\u30b4\u30df\u7bb1 which means something like &#8220;preserve our natural resources by separating garbage into the different bins.&#8221; On the lower left it says \u30ab\u30f3 (cans) and \u751f\u30b4\u30df (living garbage, like banana peels, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that the above picture was taken at about 10 a.m. in the morning. Imagine the number of people in the afternoon and evening when the blossoms are going crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ueno Park (\u4e0a\u91ce\u516c\u5712) in Tokyo is famous for its cherry blossoms. Unfortunately, we were a bit too early (in late March) to see many. Another week or two and this road would have been really spectacular. The fact that there weren&#8217;t many blossoms didn&#8217;t seem to deter the Japanese from having all sorts of hanami [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[93,88,176,92,30,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}