{"id":1584,"date":"2009-01-08T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2009-01-08T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:53:24","slug":"nishi-tokorozawa-eki-%e8%a5%bf%e6%89%80%e6%b2%a2%e9%a7%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/nishi-tokorozawa-eki-%e8%a5%bf%e6%89%80%e6%b2%a2%e9%a7%85\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishi Tokorozawa Eki \u897f\u6240\u6ca2\u99c5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1059trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1585\" title=\"\u306b\u3057\u3068\u3053\u308d\u3056\u308f\u3048\u304d\u3000Nishi Tokorozawa Eki \u897f\u6240\u6ca2\u99c5\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1059trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1059trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1059trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1059trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 20 years ago I lived in Tokorozawa, Japan. Tokorozawa was the place I stayed in Japan the longest at about 8 months. It was also the first place in Japan where I felt really comfortable with my Japanese language abilities having been in Japan for more than a year at that point. Those factors, and others, bring back nothing but fond memories for me regarding Tokorozawa. <\/p>\n<p>So when I visited Japan for the first time in decades last year I made a point of seeing my old stomping grounds. My apartment was in \u5c71\u53e3 (I think it was called) just behind the above train station. At the time there wasn&#8217;t much there except a few small apartments, tea fields, and bamboo. All that has changed now. I did see a bit of tea and bamboo in 2007, but most of the area has been turned into rather upscale, single-family homes.<\/p>\n<p>Until I enlarged the above picture to fill my screen just a moment ago, I didn&#8217;t realize that the guy on the train platform appears to be waving at my camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 years ago I lived in Tokorozawa, Japan. Tokorozawa was the place I stayed in Japan the longest at about 8 months. It was also the first place in Japan where I felt really comfortable with my Japanese language abilities having been in Japan for more than a year at that point. Those [&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":[88,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}