{"id":274,"date":"2007-04-03T19:30:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/2007\/04\/03\/riding-around-in-a-volkswagen-van-thinkin-bout-the-people-upside-down-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T07:58:44","slug":"riding-around-in-a-volkswagen-van-thinkin-bout-the-people-upside-down-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/riding-around-in-a-volkswagen-van-thinkin-bout-the-people-upside-down-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding around in a Volkswagen van, thinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout the people upside down in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/collage.jpg\" alt=\"Japan 2007 collage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halloo, Arn and I are back from a brief vacation in Japan ((<span class=\"bodysmall\">Obviously we love the place, that&#8217;s why we keep going back. Add to that the fact that my Papa always invites us over and generously sponsors our trip. \ud83d\ude42<\/span>)) with my family. This time we took a <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinkansen\">Shinkansen<\/a><\/i> ((<span class=\"bodysmall\">aka Bullet Train. On a regular train, the ride from Tokyo to Kyoto will take 8 hours. Via shinkansen, it only took us 2 hours, tops!<\/span>)) to the Kansai area so we were able to cover more ground compared to past visits. ((<span class=\"bodysmall\">Kyoto is actually special to me because we stayed for a month in Kyoto when I was 7 (<a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3fm\">photo here<\/a>). <\/span>))<br \/>\nSpring had just sprung when we arrived over a week ago and we were lucky to have witnessed the once-a-year blooming of the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sakura\"><i>Sakura<\/i><\/a> during our stay. You can view some photos at the following albums: <a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3fm\">Kyoto<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3fq?kobe\">Kobe<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3gc\">Ueno Park<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3g4\">Ohanami in Ibaraki<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/urltea.com\/3ft\">Tokyo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nPlease pardon the sporadic blog updates, but remember you can always IM me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/arncyn\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilike.com\/user\/Cynthia_Arre\">iLike<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloo, Arn and I are back from a brief vacation in Japan ((Obviously we love the place, that&#8217;s why we keep going back. Add to that the fact that my Papa always invites us over and generously sponsors our trip. \ud83d\ude42)) with my family. This time we took a Shinkansen ((aka Bullet Train. On a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-pretty-things","category-travel-journal"],"views":2867,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}