{"id":559,"date":"2008-01-03T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/travelogues\/japan-2007\/apr-04-greetings-from-takayama"},"modified":"2008-01-03T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T05:54:15","slug":"apr-04-greetings-from-takayama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/travelogues\/japan-2007\/apr-04-greetings-from-takayama","title":{"rendered":"Apr 04: Greetings from Takayama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have arrived in Takayama and have checked in to our hotel (a Best Western, which doesn&#8217;t make much sense for a hotel in Japan but it is very nice). We took the bullet train, or <em>shinkansen<\/em> as it&#8217;s called in Japanese, from Tokyo to Nagoya. The shinkansen was fast and fairly smooth, the seats were comfortable, and there was more than enough leg room even for gaijin-sized legs. We changed to a smaller train in Nagoya which brought us to Takayama. Both train rides were about two hours long. I dozed a little on the first one and gazed out the windows. The second leg of the trip was particularly enjoyable. The train climbed into wooded mountains, following a river in a sometimes spectacularly rocky gorge. The rain that started in Nagoya turned to snow briefly, but it seems to be sunny now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some pictures shortly but I haven&#8217;t even unloaded my camera card yet because I wanted to dash off a quick &#8220;we&#8217;re here&#8221; post. The hotel has free wi-fi access (w00t!) so if I find the time I&#8217;ll also post pictures from our first day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?page_id=567\">next -&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have arrived in Takayama and have checked in to our hotel (a Best Western, which doesn&#8217;t make much sense for a hotel in Japan but it is very nice). We took the bullet train, or shinkansen as it&#8217;s called in Japanese, from Tokyo to Nagoya. The shinkansen was fast and fairly smooth, the seats&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/travelogues\/japan-2007\/apr-04-greetings-from-takayama\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apr 04: Greetings from Takayama<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":534,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}