{"id":13838,"date":"2015-01-06T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13838"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:11:59","slug":"omikuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/omikuji\/","title":{"rendered":"Omikuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13839\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/14142629-omikuji-tokyo-chokokuji.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13839\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/14142629-omikuji-tokyo-chokokuji-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"omikuji tokyo chokokuji\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/14142629-omikuji-tokyo-chokokuji-800x456.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/14142629-omikuji-tokyo-chokokuji-250x142.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/more-fushimi-inari-taisha-%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E7%A8%B2%E8%8D%B7%E5%A4%A7%E7%A4%BE\/>omikuji<\/a> in Tokyo&#8217;s Chokokuji (\u9577\u8c37\u5bfa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Halfway between the Shibuya and Roppongi Stations (but closer to the Omotesando Station than any other) you can find the Chokoku Buddhist Temple. Far less famous than <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/hasedera\/>its counterpart in Kamakura<\/a> that bears the same characters but is pronounced very differently, Chokokuji was an interesting place to visit. We were the only ones there (except for a turtle that crept along freely as if he\/she owned the place), the temple houses an impressive giant Kannon statue, with a peaceful face, made out of wood.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to look for this place online, you&#8217;ll end up at the Kamakura temple if you put in \u9577\u8c37\u5bfa so be sure to include \u897f\u9ebb\u5e03 in your search.<\/p>\n<p>Rousoku (\u874b\u71ed or \u308d\u3046\u305d\u304f or \u30ed\u30a6\u30bd\u30af) means candle. Smalls were 30 yen and larges were 100 yen.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s photo it looks like someone may have stolen from the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/omikuji\/>omikuji<\/a> box once upon a time. I&#8217;m guessing doing so is bad luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway between the Shibuya and Roppongi Stations (but closer to the Omotesando Station than any other) you can find the Chokoku Buddhist Temple. Far less famous than its counterpart in Kamakura that bears the same characters but is pronounced very differently, Chokokuji was an interesting place to visit. We were the only ones there (except [&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":[101,89,553,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838"}],"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=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}