{"id":584,"date":"2017-12-16T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T10:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2017-12-16T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T10:21:10","slug":"sword-traders-gathering-trip-december-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/sword-traders-gathering-trip-december-12-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sword Traders Gathering Trip   December 12, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4131-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4131-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4131 (002)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4137-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4137-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4137 (002)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4134-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_4134-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4134 (002)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a trip with six other Members of the Sword Trader Association all aged in their 40&#8217;s and 50&#8217;s like myself, to Yoro Keikoku Okukiyosumi Prefectural Natural Park in Chiba. We stayed one day at the Keikoku Bettei Mochinoki.<\/p>\n<p>We traveled there using the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line which opened 20 years ago on December 18, 1997, but it was the first time for me to see it even though I live in Noda City in Chiba Prefecture.<br \/>\nI could see the moutains of Chiba in the east, Mt. Fuji in the western distance and to the north I could see high-rise buildings in the city center.<\/p>\n<p>At the Hotel we slowly soaked in the hot springs, and we all had a good time with local cuisine and sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a trip with six other Members of the Sword Trader Association all aged in their 40&#8217;s and 50&#8217;s like myself, to Yoro Keikoku Okukiyosumi Prefectural Natural Park in Chiba. We stayed one day at the Keikoku Bettei Mochinoki. We traveled there using the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line which opened 20 years ago on December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/sword-traders-gathering-trip-december-12-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sword Traders Gathering Trip   December 12, 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}