{"id":4186,"date":"2015-12-17T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takimotokan.co.jp\/english\/?p=958"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:20:24","slug":"in-hopes-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/news\/in-hopes-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hopes of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.takimotokan.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spring3.jpg\" alt=\"Spring3\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Between our two lives<\/em><br \/>\n<em>is the vivid life<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of the cherry blossoms.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211;\u00a0Matsuo Bash\u014d, Japanese Haiku<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Japan,\u00a0the four seasons of a year are quite distinct. Japanese culture is deeply rooted in the changing of seasons, which is celebrated in many traditional art forms, like Haiku. In recent years, people celebrate seasonal changes by eating the\u00a0food in season,\u00a0and by choosing the appropriate colors to wear.<\/p>\n<p>This is no different for us in Takimoto-kan. Every season, we prepare with the best selected ingredients an exclusive menu for our In-room Dining and Yunosato Gourmet Restaurant. You&#8217;ll find many spring flavors and colors on the table, ranging from fresh bamboo shoots to the rapeseed blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Spring is a great season to be traveling to Japan. You will be able to enjoy the new green on many trees as well as the viewing of cherry blossoms. We have already been receiving reservations that are 3 to 5 months away. If you&#8217;re also looking to take a trip next spring, do not hesitate!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.takimotokan.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spring4.jpg\" alt=\"Spring4\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are also some behind-the-scenes photos.<br \/>\nYou can see our cameraman busy at work:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.takimotokan.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spring1.jpg\" alt=\"Spring1\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.takimotokan.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spring2.jpg\" alt=\"Spring2\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between our two lives is the vivid life of the cherry blossoms. &#8211;\u00a0Matsuo Bash\u014d, Japanese Haiku &nbsp; In Japan,\u00a0the four seasons of a year are quite distinct. Japanese culture is deeply rooted in the changing of seasons, which is celebrated in many traditional art forms, like Haiku. In recent years, people celebrate seasonal changes by eating the\u00a0food in season,\u00a0and by<\/p>\n<div class=\"h10\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more-link1\" href=\"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/news\/in-hopes-of-spring\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takimotokan.ardevtech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}