{"id":1225,"date":"2007-12-20T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/12\/20\/japan-vacation-conclusion\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:39:39","slug":"japan-vacation-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/12\/20\/japan-vacation-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Vacation: Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the end. I&#8217;ve gone through all my photos and posted everything that looked reasonably interesting.<\/p>\n<p>If you are considering a trip to Japan I strongly recommend that you go for it. Japan is a strange and wonderful place, full of beautiful things, and a few things that are just a bit odd. The people are friendly and hospitable, service is uniformly excellent and the trains really do run on time. (The average delay for a <em>shinkansen<\/em> leaving the station is supposed to be about 6 seconds.)<\/p>\n<p>The country has a reputation for being clean, safe and expensive, and that&#8217;s pretty accurate. Still at today&#8217;s exchange rates it seems less expensive in relative terms. Many other currencies have appreciated much more against the dollar than the Yen has.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank our tour organizer, Mike Roberts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuraitours.com\/\">Samurai Tours<\/a>. He did an amazing job and I&#8217;m sure we saw a lot more of Japan than most visitors get to see. I would also like to thank our local guides who illuminated much that would otherwise have been obscure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/category\/japan-vacation\/?order=asc\">All Entries For This Trip.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the end. I&#8217;ve gone through all my photos and posted everything that looked reasonably interesting. If you are considering a trip to Japan I strongly recommend that you go&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/12\/20\/japan-vacation-conclusion\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-vacation","category-japaneseculture","tag-samurai-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}