{"id":4373,"date":"2010-01-26T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:11:04","slug":"little-edo-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/little-edo-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Edo &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20123249trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20123249trim-589x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u6642\u306e\u9418\" title=\"kawagoe bell tower japan edo period buildings\" width=\"589\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20123249trim-589x800.jpg 589w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20123249trim-184x250.jpg 184w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20123249trim.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toki no kane (\u6642\u306e\u9418) is the name of Kawagoe&#8217;s original bell tower, which is still used four times a day. We heard the noon ringing. The original is about 400 years old. This one was built in 1893, after the great fire that burned most of the town. If you look closely at the bottom, right part of this picture you can see some newlyweds having their pictures taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20104455trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20104455trim-800x696.jpg\" alt=\"manhole\" title=\"kawagoe drainspotting drain cover japan little edo\" width=\"800\" height=\"696\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20104455trim-800x696.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20104455trim-250x217.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20104455trim.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bell and tower are also featured on Kawagoe&#8217;s manhole <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/drainspotting\/>drain covers<\/a>. (Kawagoeshi = \u304b\u308f\u3054\u3048\u3057 = \u5ddd\u8d8a\u5e02 and <I>shi<\/I> means &#8220;city&#8221; in Japanese) (\u304a\u3059\u3044 = \u6c5a\u6c34 and <I>osui<\/I> means &#8220;sewage&#8221; in Japanese)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20121454trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20121454trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kawagoe japan cafe in vw van\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20121454trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20121454trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20121454trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of interesting shops and restaurants in Kawagoe. The one pictured above is called the Garden Cafe, run completely out of an old VW van, which I&#8217;m guessing isn&#8217;t from the Edo Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toki no kane (\u6642\u306e\u9418) is the name of Kawagoe&#8217;s original bell tower, which is still used four times a day. We heard the noon ringing. The original is about 400 years old. This one was built in 1893, after the great fire that burned most of the town. If you look closely at the bottom, [&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":[175,208,167,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373"}],"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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}