{"id":231,"date":"2020-03-30T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:27:45","slug":"turning-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Turning Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top of the list of places to visit after travel restrictions are lifted has to be Japan.  For most of us visting Japan will take us as far out of our comfort zone as we can go in a society and culture that on the face of it looks very much like our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JAPAN - Where tradition meets the future | JNTO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLIv7HnZ_fE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Japan National Tourism Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Turning Japanese&#8221; by the Vapours should really be the theme tune to the excellent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3bFfmmD\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> Original Series &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"James May: Our Man In Japan (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3bwnmX2\" target=\"_blank\">James May: Our Man In Japan<\/a>&#8220;.  James travels through Japan mixing the modern with the past, the urban with the rural in such a way that you just want to book your ticket here and now.  He embraces the Japanese way of life.  It&#8217;s a must watch series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Olympics now postponed until 2021, now might be a good time to start chatting to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Maggie (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelcounsellors.co.uk\/maggie.bush\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie<\/a> about the many possibilities for  itineraries that you could follow on your visit to Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopping from home?  Make it more rewarding with the British Airways e-store and your <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/amex.co.uk\/refer\/mALCOJLDPQ?CPID=100338475\" target=\"_blank\">British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card<\/a>. Collect Avios without flying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the list of places to visit after travel restrictions are lifted has to be Japan. For most of us visting Japan will take us as far out of our comfort zone as we can go in a society and culture that on the face of it looks very much like our own. &#8220;Turning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning Japanese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,91,110,165,213,48,37,166,72],"tags":[216,171,215,214],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-city","category-cuisine","category-japan","category-olympics","category-spa","category-sport","category-tokyo","category-train","tag-james-may","tag-japan","tag-olympics","tag-tokyo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}