{"id":3875,"date":"2009-12-08T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2009-12-04T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:37:17","slug":"illuminations-in-and-around-roppongi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/illuminations-in-and-around-roppongi\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminations in and around Roppongi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220103trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220103trim-800x690.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo tower christmas illuminations lights japan\" title=\"tokyo tower christmas illuminations lights japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220103trim-800x690.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220103trim-250x215.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220103trim.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday night we went to Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi to check out the Christmas lights (referred to as illuminations or \u30a4\u30eb\u30df\u30cd\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3) and have some dinner. The restaurants with the good views in the Garden Terrace were all booked so we had some inexpensive, Vietnamese food without a view instead. Ironically, even though the place was packed, all the restaurants and shops closed at 9 p.m. We then headed over to Roppongi Hills where I took the above photo of the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/tokyo-tower\/>Tokyo Tower<\/a>, which was lit differently than usual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220915trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220915trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"roppongi hills illuminations christmas lights asahi tv tokyo japan\" title=\"mori garden roppongi hills illuminations christmas lights asahi tv tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220915trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220915trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04220915trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mori Garden was illuminated as it basked in the glow of Asahi TV Studio. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04213846trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04213846trim-800x644.jpg\" alt=\"midtown tower christmas lights tree illuminations 2009 tokyo japan\" title=\"midtown tower christmas lights tree illuminations 2009 tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04213846trim-800x644.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04213846trim-250x201.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04213846trim.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grass Square behind the Midtown Tower and Garden Terrace were the scene for this ever-changing light display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday night we went to Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi to check out the Christmas lights (referred to as illuminations or \u30a4\u30eb\u30df\u30cd\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3) and have some dinner. The restaurants with the good views in the Garden Terrace were all booked so we had some inexpensive, Vietnamese food without a view instead. Ironically, even though the place [&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":[221,131,30,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875"}],"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=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}