{"id":8758,"date":"2011-12-31T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T07:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2012-01-04T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:06:46","slug":"happy-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/happy-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8759\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/31230504zojojiNewYearsBalloonParty.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8759\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/31230504zojojiNewYearsBalloonParty-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"what to do on new year&#039;s eve in tokyo japan\" title=\"zojoji New Years eve Balloon release Party temple countdown\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/31230504zojojiNewYearsBalloonParty-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/31230504zojojiNewYearsBalloonParty-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/31230504zojojiNewYearsBalloonParty.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon release countdown for the new year at Zojoji in Tokyo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Only&#8221; 3,000 balloons are given out for the annual New Year countdown at Zojoji in Tokyo so get there early if you want one. It&#8217;s a festive atmosphere so the queue isn&#8217;t as bad as waiting in line at, say, the DMV or <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/chinas-tokyo-embassy-the-craziest-place-on-earth\/>China&#8217;s Tokyo Embassy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.zojoji.or.jp\/event\/ev_countdown.html target=_new>Here is more detailed information on the Zojoji Countdown<\/a> (\u5897\u4e0a\u5bfa \u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8\u30c0\u30a6\u30f3). It&#8217;s all in Japanese, but the key thing to note is that the wish cards are handed out beginning at 8:30 p.m. to the first 3,000 people. At 10:30 p.m. you go back to get your balloon. Get there by 8 p.m. and you should be fine. Arrive after 9 p.m. and your odds of getting a balloon are not so good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Only&#8221; 3,000 balloons are given out for the annual New Year countdown at Zojoji in Tokyo so get there early if you want one. It&#8217;s a festive atmosphere so the queue isn&#8217;t as bad as waiting in line at, say, the DMV or China&#8217;s Tokyo Embassy. Here is more detailed information on the Zojoji Countdown [&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":[315,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758"}],"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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}