{"id":5700,"date":"2010-06-02T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2010-05-28T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T06:00:50","slug":"niiza-%e6%96%b0%e5%ba%a7%e5%b8%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/niiza-%e6%96%b0%e5%ba%a7%e5%b8%82\/","title":{"rendered":"Niiza (\u65b0\u5ea7\u5e02)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000759trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000759trim-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"saitama ken view of mt. fuji\" title=\"mt. fuji saikyo line\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000759trim-800x482.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000759trim-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000759trim.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast for last Friday was outstanding. We woke up to blue skies. The future forecast didn&#8217;t look so great, and with rainy season just around the corner, it looked like this may be the last day of blue skies we may see for quite a while. So we grabbed <I><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/benten-shrine-at-shakujii-park-%E7%9F%B3%E7%A5%9E%E4%BA%95%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92\/>Water Walks in the Suburbs of Tokyo<\/a><\/I> and jumped on the train. Our purpose was to do &#8220;Walk 13: Nobidome \u91ce\u706b\u6b62.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along the way we could see Mt. Fuji from the train. It was that kind of day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000770trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000770trim-800x352.jpg\" alt=\"working the fields\" title=\"japanese farmers\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000770trim-800x352.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000770trim-250x110.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000770trim.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our destination was Niiza in Saitama. The train station platform had to be the ugliest I have ever seen in Japan, but the direction we took from the station had a nice country feel to it. <\/p>\n<p>Note that if you are following the same guidebook, the old, rustic sign before the first stop light is no longer there. Another stop light has been put in, so you want to follow the Astro Boy sign in the sidewalk before the second stop light. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000768trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000768trim-795x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"flower nursery saitama ken niiza japan\" width=\"795\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000768trim-795x800.jpg 795w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000768trim-248x250.jpg 248w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000768trim.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been in Tokyo for too long and need to see a farm (or a few dozen of them) again then this is a good place to visit. Flowers are everywhere in Tokyo and this place appears to be a supplier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000765trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000765trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"middle of field\" title=\"buddhist japanese graveyard\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000765trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000765trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/P1000765trim.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family grave sites in the middle of farms are a common sight in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather forecast for last Friday was outstanding. We woke up to blue skies. The future forecast didn&#8217;t look so great, and with rainy season just around the corner, it looked like this may be the last day of blue skies we may see for quite a while. So we grabbed Water Walks in the [&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":[172,176,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700"}],"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=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}