{"id":9495,"date":"2012-05-22T01:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:11:48","slug":"tokyo-skytree-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/tokyo-skytree-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Skytree opens today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/07105658-tokyo-skyline-sky-tree-under-construction.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/07105658-tokyo-skyline-sky-tree-under-construction-800x365.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo skytree from rainbow bridge\" title=\" tokyo skyline sky tree under construction\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/07105658-tokyo-skyline-sky-tree-under-construction-800x365.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/07105658-tokyo-skyline-sky-tree-under-construction-250x114.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the long-awaited opening of the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/sky-tree\/>Tokyo Skytree<\/a>. With the high demand to check out Tokyo from the top, you would have had to have won a lottery months ago to ascend the Skytree this week. Supposedly, you can get a ticket a bit easier beginning in mid-July. In any case, admission isn&#8217;t cheap. Look to pay between 2,000 and 3,500 yen (> $40 US) to check out the view from the Tokyo Skytree.<\/p>\n<p>I took today&#8217;s photo a couple years before the Skytree was completed from the Rainbow Bridge. You can see the under-construction Skytree to the far right in this pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the long-awaited opening of the Tokyo Skytree. With the high demand to check out Tokyo from the top, you would have had to have won a lottery months ago to ascend the Skytree this week. Supposedly, you can get a ticket a bit easier beginning in mid-July. In any case, admission isn&#8217;t cheap. [&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":[175,379,286,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495"}],"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=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}