{"id":1602,"date":"2009-01-13T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:44:45","slug":"himeji-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/himeji-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Himeji from above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1664rim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1603\" title=\"himeji\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1664rim-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1664rim-800x566.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1664rim-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_1664rim.jpg 1482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photograph is of the town of Himeji from the top of the town&#8217;s famous castle. If you ever plan to visit Himeji (and you should if you are visiting Kyoto, Osaka, or Kobe) I have two suggestions for you.<\/p>\n<p>#1 If you are going to Himeji on a weekend be sure to arrive well before noon. The crowds in the afternoon on a weekend are out of control. Once inside the castle you will be unable to move for long periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>#2 If you are more than 6&#8242; tall be sure to watch your head as many of the ceilings, doorways, and ladder areas have a clearance below 6&#8242;. I hit my head so hard going up a set of stairs (ladder really, the same one you can see in the <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/shogun-\u5c06\u8ecd\/\">Shogun miniseries<\/a>) that I thought I was going to pass out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photograph is of the town of Himeji from the top of the town&#8217;s famous castle. If you ever plan to visit Himeji (and you should if you are visiting Kyoto, Osaka, or Kobe) I have two suggestions for you. #1 If you are going to Himeji on a weekend be sure to arrive well [&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":[149,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}