{"id":711,"date":"2007-11-20T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/11\/20\/traveling-from-tokyo-to-takayama\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T17:49:13","slug":"traveling-from-tokyo-to-takayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/11\/20\/traveling-from-tokyo-to-takayama\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling from Tokyo to Takayama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below, a <em>shinkansen<\/em> (bullet train) pulls into Tokyo Station.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tokyoshinkansen.jpg' alt='Shinkansen' \/><\/p>\n<p>Traveling north from Tokyo the metropolis soon gives way to a seemingly endless series of edge cities, featuring closely-spaced detached houses and small plots of agricultural land.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/edgecity.jpg' alt='Edge City' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/edgecity2.jpg' alt='Edge City' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/edgecity3.jpg' alt='Edge City' \/><\/p>\n<p>As we approach the mountains the housing gets less dense and the agricultural plots get larger. Fields are planted with rice,<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/approachingmountains.jpg' alt='Approaching Mountains' \/><\/p>\n<p>..tea,<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tea.jpg' alt='Tea' \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and assorted vegetables.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountainsvegetables.jpg' alt='Vegetables' \/><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t see any American-style suburban tract houses with large lawns. In fact I don&#8217;t think I ever saw a real private lawn anywhere. Any open space that can be planted with crops is used for that purpose.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountainroad.jpg' alt='Mountain Road' \/><\/p>\n<p>In the mountains the size of the fields is more limited, mostly because of the lack of suitable flat ground.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountaindam.jpg' alt='Dam' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountainriver.jpg' alt='Mountain River' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountainstream.jpg' alt='Stream' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mountainstream2.jpg' alt='Stream' \/><\/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>Below, a shinkansen (bullet train) pulls into Tokyo Station.<\/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":[13,11,174],"tags":[112,113],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-vacation","category-japaneseculture","category-photos","tag-takayama","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}