{"id":905,"date":"2008-09-17T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:47:26","slug":"himeji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/himeji\/","title":{"rendered":"Himeji Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1646trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-902\" title=\"himeji castle japan\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1646trim-720x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1646trim-720x800.jpg 720w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1646trim-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1646trim.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Himejijo (\u59eb\u8def\u57ce) is probably the most impressive castle in Japan. The city of Himeji is a relatively short side trip from Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Okayama. We went on a Saturday, which was a mistake, just before the cherry blossoms peaked. It was so crowded inside that we could barely move. In fact, we couldn&#8217;t move at times. But we still had a good time, especially on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to visit Himeji, your best bet is to go on a weekday. If you must go on a weekend, be sure to get there before 11 a.m. The afternoons can get very crowded with people inside the castle.<\/p>\n<p>Himejijo and the grounds are featured prominently in the <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/shogun-%e5%b0%86%e8%bb%8d\"><\/a>Shogun miniseries. We had a good time watching it after having been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himejijo (\u59eb\u8def\u57ce) is probably the most impressive castle in Japan. The city of Himeji is a relatively short side trip from Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Okayama. We went on a Saturday, which was a mistake, just before the cherry blossoms peaked. It was so crowded inside that we could barely move. In fact, we couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[121,93,149,88,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}