{"id":5518,"date":"2010-05-15T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:40:22","slug":"castle-in-the-sky-%e5%a4%a9%e7%a9%ba%e3%81%ae%e5%9f%8e%e3%83%a9%e3%83%94%e3%83%a5%e3%82%bf-ghibli-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/castle-in-the-sky-%e5%a4%a9%e7%a9%ba%e3%81%ae%e5%9f%8e%e3%83%a9%e3%83%94%e3%83%a5%e3%82%bf-ghibli-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle in the Sky (\u5929\u7a7a\u306e\u57ce\u30e9\u30d4\u30e5\u30bf) @ Ghibli Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08105346trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08105346trim.jpg\" alt=\"mitaka kichijoji tokyo japan\" title=\"laputa robot at ghibli museum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of reasons to visit <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/manga-reading-dude-in-inokashira-park\/>Inokashira Park<\/a> near Kichijoji. The reason that took us out there a week ago was the Ghibli Museum.<\/p>\n<p>I saw my first Miyazaki (\u5bae\u5d0e\u99ff) movie way back in 1988. He was virtually unknown outside of Japan at that point, but I was in Japan. In fact, I was living in the setting of his current movie at the time, <I>My Neighbor Totoro<\/I> (\u3068\u306a\u308a\u306e\u30c8\u30c8\u30ed), on the edge of Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture. <\/p>\n<p>Ellie and Ryan also became big fans, as well as most of the rest of the world, so we have been wanting to check out the museum for a while. Tickets aren&#8217;t easy to come by if you want to go on a weekend. With Ryan and Ellie in school on weekdays we finally landed some Saturday tickets by purchasing them within a day of their going on sale more than a month in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Shown above is a picture from the top of the museum. This is one of the robots from <I>Laputa: Castle in the Sky<\/I> (\u5929\u7a7a\u306e\u57ce\u30e9\u30d4\u30e5\u30bf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of reasons to visit Inokashira Park near Kichijoji. The reason that took us out there a week ago was the Ghibli Museum. I saw my first Miyazaki (\u5bae\u5d0e\u99ff) movie way back in 1988. He was virtually unknown outside of Japan at that point, but I was in Japan. In fact, I was [&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":[56,247,281,279,125,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518"}],"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=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26856,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}