{"id":195,"date":"2007-04-01T10:05:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/cherry-blossoms-in-shinjuku-gyoen\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T01:05:32","slug":"cherry-blossoms-in-shinjuku-gyoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/cherry-blossoms-in-shinjuku-gyoen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossoms in Shinjuku Gyoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryimage\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/441738430\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/179\/441738430_d6862d46e1_m.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry blossoms in Shinjuku Gyoen and Skyscraper\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/441732591\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/441732591_5ba11a2d34_m.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Blossoms up close\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/sets\/72157600039939375\/\">Shinjuku Gyoen Sakura Photoset<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, April 1st, the weather suddenly became beautiful, despite earlier predictions of rain.  My friend Risa and I decided on the spur-of-the-moment to head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shinjukugyoen.go.jp\/english\/english-index.html\"> the Shinjuku Gyoen National Park (\u65b0\u5bbf\u5fa1\u82d1)<\/a> for some Cherry Blossom Viewing.  It is hard to think of anything more traditionally Japanese than a good old-fashioned Hanami, and we certainly weren&#8217;t the only people with that idea.  The weather was just beautiful, the day started out a comfortable and sunny 23 degrees Celsius, but after a while sitting in the park started to get a bit warm.  We picked up some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bento\">Bento lunches<\/a> near Shinjuku station, and then some drinks (of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sake\">Nihonshyu<\/a> is a required drink) before going to the park.  <P\/><\/p>\n<p>After about ten minutes waiting to buy tickets to get into the park (only 200 yen for adults!) we headed in and looked for a place to sit.  It was pretty crowded, but we got there at about 11:30am, and was much less crowded than when we left at about three or so.  We found a reasonable place to sit, sat down and enjoyed our picnic lunch and some loverly beer and sake.  With the cherry blossoms falling around us and beautiful weather, it was a great little lunch.  <P\/><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, I got too much sun and now the top of my head, where I used to have hair yet now have none, is slightly red (to match my beard I guess.) <P\/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Hana-mi everyone!\u3000\u7686\u69d8\u3001\u304a\u82b1\u898b\u306f\u697d\u3057\u307f\u307e\u3057\u305f\u304b\uff1f<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjuku Gyoen Sakura Photoset On Sunday, April 1st, the weather suddenly became beautiful, despite earlier predictions of rain. My friend Risa and I decided on the spur-of-the-moment to head over to the Shinjuku Gyoen National Park (\u65b0\u5bbf\u5fa1\u82d1) for some Cherry Blossom Viewing. It is hard to think of anything more traditionally Japanese than a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}