{"id":3750,"date":"2009-11-22T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:25:53","slug":"asakusa-%e6%b5%85%e8%8d%89-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/asakusa-%e6%b5%85%e8%8d%89-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Asakusa (\u6d45\u8349) – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sensoji<\/a><\/p>\n

On a recent Friday, Linda, Ryan, and I visited Asakusa. I thought it wouldn’t be so crowded, being as how it wasn’t a weekend. However, it was swarming with people, just like how I remembered it from my first visit here in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

\"nakamisedori<\/a><\/p>\n

Nakamisedori (\u4ef2\u898b\u4e16\u901a\u308a) is a long street, featuring almost 100 shops as you approach the temple. The exterior of the temple is currently being remodeled. The original temple is the oldest in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

We followed the tour\/map in Tokyo: Exploring the City of the Shogun<\/a><\/I> (which I recommend) for the most part, but the pictures you see here are out of order.<\/p>\n

\"asakusa<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we are in front of the famous Kaminarimon (\u96f7\u9580). Ryan is growing fast. He passed up his mom a few weeks back and may catch me here soon too.<\/p>\n

\"dancing<\/a><\/p>\n

I have no idea what this last image is supposed to be. \u8e0a\u795e means “dancing god,” but this is the ugliest looking dancing god (that can’t even dance) I have ever seen. This shot was taken on Rokku Broadway (\u516d\u533a\u30d6\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30a6\u30a7\u30a4), near the Asakusa Entertainment Hall and Toyokan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a recent Friday, Linda, Ryan, and I visited Asakusa. I thought it wouldn’t be so crowded, being as how it wasn’t a weekend. However, it was swarming with people, just like how I remembered it from my first visit here in the late 1980s. Nakamisedori (\u4ef2\u898b\u4e16\u901a\u308a) is a long street, featuring almost 100 shops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[231,176,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750"}],"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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}