{"id":103,"date":"2004-11-23T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/travel\/japan\/200411231836.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"a-japanese-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/a-japanese-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Japanese Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/japan-autumn2004\/CRW_7516\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/albums\/japan-autumn2004\/CRW_7516.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow tree in Aoyama\" title=\"Yellow tree in Aoyama\" \/><\/a>After having spent the last 2 weeks in Sydney for a business trip, I came back to Japan (ahh,  there&#8217;s nothing like home) to enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/japan-autumn2004\">Japanese Autumn in  Tokyo<\/a>.  One popular spot is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meijijingugaien.jp\/\">Meiji Jingu Gaien<\/a> (\u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u00b2\u00bb\u00e7\u00a5\u017e\u00e5\u00ae\u00ae\u00e5\u00a4\u2013\u00e8\u2039\u2018), where all gather in the Ichou Ginko Street (\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u2021\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e4\u00b8\u00a6\u00e6\u0153\u00a8) to admire the famous yellow leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, all trees were not yellow yet, and only a few of them were showing this magnificent colour.  The best time will probably be in a week or two from now, when it really starts getting cold.  At that time, I hope to be able to capture more of their colours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/japan-autumn2004\/CRW_7534\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/albums\/japan-autumn2004\/CRW_7534.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"exhausted police officer\" title=\"an exhausting day\" \/><\/a>As mentioned earlier, when an event like that one occurs in Tokyo, and in spite of Japanese innate sense for order, some organization is required to make sure that the flow of pedestrians in a hurry to take photographs of the trees does not disturb the traffic.  The young  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/japan-autumn2004\/CRW_7534\">person<\/a> assigned to that task this afternoon seemed to have a hard time to cope with the unstoppable flow of people today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having spent the last 2 weeks in Sydney for a business trip, I came back to Japan (ahh, there&#8217;s nothing like home) to enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}