{"id":4883,"date":"2010-01-22T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:21:05","slug":"himeji-castle-closing-for-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"Himeji Castle Closing&#8230; for 5 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4884\" title=\"DSCF3410\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3410-600x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3410-600x373.jpg 600w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3410-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3410.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the just-discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustlovejapan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MustLoveJapan<\/a> website (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/debaoki\" target=\"_blank\">@DebAoki<\/a>!), Himeji Castle will be closing for repairs and upgrades beginning April 2010, until sometime in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading the site for a while, you might remember that in the midst of my Otaku-fueled first Japan travelogue in 2007, I took a short break to post <a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/12\/17\/japan-2007-20-photos-of-himeji\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20 Photos of Himeji<\/strong><\/a>, a town I really liked. Himeji is a medium-sized town, and very pedestrian-friendly, it&#8217;s on a grid and the whole thing seems designed to give you the best-possible view of the castle.<\/p>\n<p>If any of my photos inspired you to visit Japan (or visit places within Japan) you may want to move quickly to see this attraction, before it&#8217;s off limits for the next half-decade&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4885\" title=\"DSCF3403\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3403-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3403-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3403-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DSCF3403.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the just-discovered MustLoveJapan website (thanks @DebAoki!), Himeji Castle will be closing for repairs and upgrades beginning April 2010, until sometime in 2015. If you&#8217;ve been reading the site for a while, you might remember that in the midst of my Otaku-fueled first Japan travelogue in 2007, I took a short break to post &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Himeji Castle Closing&#8230; for 5 years.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-comics","category-random-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}