{"id":2150,"date":"2012-10-10T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T05:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2012-10-10T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T06:04:22","slug":"travel-japan-tonomine-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Travel Japan:<\/b> Tonomine Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00e7\u00a0\u00a5\u00e5\u00b3\u00b0\u00e9\u00ab\u02dc\u00e5\u017d\u0178<\/strong><strong>(Tonomine Highlands, Kamikawa, Hyogo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I went to the Tonomine highlands (where the movie\u00c2\u00a0Norwegian\u00c2\u00a0Wood was filmed, based on Murakami Haruki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous book)\u00c2\u00a0for a moon viewing party. There was dancing, and taiko (two of the performers were JETs) food, etc. Good times basically! Here are a few pictures.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a spring festival held on the first Saturday in March where they burn all the grassland for the new harvest. This also looked pretty cool, with singing and dancing while the fires burn away. Another festival takes place in mid-October to celebrate the silver grass found on the highlands (\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u201a\u00ad\u00e7\u00a5\u00ad\u00e3\u201a\u0160)<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2150 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8718_1\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8718_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8719\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8719-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8720_1\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8720_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8722\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8722-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8755\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8755-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/10\/travel-japan-tonomine-highlands\/img_8852\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8852-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible to access the area via public transport<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c buses run from \u00e5\u00af\u00ba\u00e5\u2030\u008d\u00e9\u00a7\u2026(Teramae)and \u00e9\u2022\u00b7\u00e8\u00b0\u00b7\u00e9\u00a7\u2026(Hase), both on the Bantan line (according to Wikipedia at least &gt;&lt;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e7\u00a0\u00a5\u00e5\u00b3\u00b0\u00e9\u00ab\u02dc\u00e5\u017d\u0178(Tonomine Highlands, Kamikawa, Hyogo) So I went to the Tonomine highlands (where the movie\u00c2\u00a0Norwegian\u00c2\u00a0Wood was filmed, based on Murakami Haruki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous book)\u00c2\u00a0for a moon viewing party. There was dancing, and taiko (two of the performers were JETs) food, etc. Good times basically! Here are a few pictures. There is also a spring festival held on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[277,1],"tags":[290,291,289],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8722.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}