{"id":5015,"date":"2010-03-26T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T06:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2010-03-27T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T22:57:40","slug":"tokyo-sakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/tokyo-sakura\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Sakura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26132717trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26132717trim-624x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shinjuku gyoen sakura cherry blossoms hanami\" width=\"624\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26132717trim-624x800.jpg 624w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26132717trim-195x250.jpg 195w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26132717trim.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On March 26 we visited Shinjuku Gyoen (\u65b0\u5bbf\u5fa1\u82d1) for the first time. It was still a week or so too early for the peak of the cherry blossoms (<I><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/sakura\/>sakura<\/a><\/I>), but a half dozen of the trees were in full bloom. <I>Hanami<\/I> was in full swing regardless. The best cherry blossom viewing time varies a bit each year, but this year, like most years, it looks like the first week of April will be the best time to view sakura in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134803trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134803trim-800x649.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japanese girls in the park hanami\" width=\"800\" height=\"649\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134803trim-800x649.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134803trim-250x202.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134803trim.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some didn&#8217;t care about the flowers. They were there to play on the grass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134330trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134330trim-759x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"buddhist monk taking photos of cherry blossoms in tokyo&#039;s shinjuku gyoen\" width=\"759\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134330trim-759x800.jpg 759w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134330trim-237x250.jpg 237w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26134330trim.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others came only for pictures of the flowers with some serious equipment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26154620trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26154620trim-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"\u307c\u3051\u3000\u30dc\u30b1\" title=\"flowers boke Chinese flowering quince Chaenomeles speciosa\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26154620trim-800x456.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26154620trim-250x142.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26154620trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were other flowers in full bloom, like these Chaenomeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26 we visited Shinjuku Gyoen (\u65b0\u5bbf\u5fa1\u82d1) for the first time. It was still a week or so too early for the peak of the cherry blossoms (sakura), but a half dozen of the trees were in full bloom. Hanami was in full swing regardless. The best cherry blossom viewing time varies a bit [&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":[101,93,182,176,92,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}