{"id":1117,"date":"2007-02-12T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/12\/takayama-or-kanazawa\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:29:18","slug":"takayama-or-kanazawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/12\/takayama-or-kanazawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Takayama or Kanazawa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/what_to_see_in_japan.php\">mentioned previously<\/a>, Kate and I are planning to go to Japan for the World SF Convention, and spend a couple of weeks doing touristy stuff. We&#8217;re down for about a week in Kyoto, and a week in the Yokohama\/Tokyo area (where the con is). Then, there are 3-4 days at the end of the trip that we haven&#8217;t decided what to do with.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve pretty much got it narrowed down to one of two options, as you might guess from the post title. We&#8217;re working on not much more than guidebooks and web sites, though, so input from anybody with actual experience of Japan would be more than welcome. The candidate sites:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp\/kanazawa_e\/guide.htm\">Kanazawa<\/a>. This is a moderate-sized city on the opposite coast from Tokyo, and has a really famous garden and some interesting-sounding historical stuff. One of our guidebooks waxes rhapsodic about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp\/kanazawa_e\/local.htm\">local cuisine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hida.jp\/english\/\">Takayama<\/a>. This is a small city up in the mountains, and is a little more rustic. They have a bunch of museums of folk crafts and that sort of thing, and more touristy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Really, they both sound pretty cool, and relatively low-key. Takayama is kind of attractive in that it&#8217;s very different from any of the other places we&#8217;ll be, but Kanazawa sounds pretty cool, too. They&#8217;re both four-ish hours from the Tokyo area by train, so travel time isn&#8217;t really a distinguishing factor, but the rail maps we&#8217;ve seen make it look like it wouldn&#8217;t quite be feasible to do both (particularly at the end of a long vacation, and right after Worldcon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as mentioned previously, Kate and I are planning to go to Japan for the World SF Convention, and spend a couple of weeks doing touristy stuff. We&#8217;re down for about a week in Kyoto, and a week in the Yokohama\/Tokyo area (where the con is). Then, there are 3-4 days at the end of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/12\/takayama-or-kanazawa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Takayama or Kanazawa?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}