{"id":5442,"date":"2010-05-06T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2010-07-21T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:41:14","slug":"wrapping-up-the-takeda-shingen-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/wrapping-up-the-takeda-shingen-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping up the Takeda Shingen Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10193704trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10193704trim-532x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u82b1\u706b\u3000\u7532\u5e9c\u3000\u4fe1\u7384\u516c\u796d\u308a\" title=\"japanese fireworks kofu castle takeda shingen festival\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10193704trim-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10193704trim-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10193704trim.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to finally wrap up this series on the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/more-from-kofu\/>Takeda Shingen Festival<\/a> I went to in Kofu last month. I&#8217;ll probably share some more photos from my day in Kofu later, but not in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I waited around with many other people for about an hour for the promised fireworks. They were to be fired off from the top of the castle site. Very cool I thought. However, the firework show lasted less than 1 minute. I kid you not. I&#8217;ve witnessed longer fireworks after home runs at baseball games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10183425trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10183425trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"japanese festival food kofu shingen matsuri\" title=\"\u6b66\u7530\u4fe1\u7384\u516c\u796d\u308a\u3000\u713c\u304d\u9ce5\u3000\u713c\u304d\u305d\u3070\u3000\u304a\u3053\u306e\u307f\u3084\u304d\u3000\u305f\u3053\u3084\u304d\u3000\u6599\u7406\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10183425trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10183425trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10183425trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wait could have been worse were it not for all of the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/%E8%AB%8F%E8%A8%AA%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE-%E7%A5%AD%E3%82%8A-suwa-jinja-matsuri-festival\/>typical Japanese festival food<\/a> available. What would you like? Yakisoba? Ramen? Takoyaki? Kakigori? Okonomiyaki? Udon? Yakitori?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to finally wrap up this series on the Takeda Shingen Festival I went to in Kofu last month. I&#8217;ll probably share some more photos from my day in Kofu later, but not in the near future. I waited around with many other people for about an hour for the promised fireworks. They were [&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":[215,294,102,271,203,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442"}],"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=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}