{"id":8135,"date":"2015-04-01T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidejapanblog.com\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:40:10","slug":"blue-blossom-a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/blue-blossom-a-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue blossom a first"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Like this post? 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The city known for its gardens, old tea districts and samurai houses is a beautiful example of traditional Japan.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the new blue-nosed Shinkansen service that opened in mid-March slashing journey time from Tokyo to Kanazawa from 4hrs to 2.5hrs. Tourist numbers to the old city on the Japan Sea Coast have increased considerably with the new train. Is this the reason that a single tree in the city has blossomed blue? &#8211; Who knows!?!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8136\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Mysterious blue cherry blossom a first.\" width=\"468\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree.jpg 2155w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-1200x1671.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-900x1253.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-720x1002.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-1440x2005.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-390x543.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-780x1086.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetree-510x710.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mysterious blue cherry blossom a first.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the famous cherry blossom of Japan. This traditional city, is not use to non-pink cherry blossom. It just doesn&#8217;t happen. Is it a one off occurance? We don&#8217;t know. Mysterious Japan&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should add it to our interactive cherry blossom guide &#8211;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7829\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/cherry-blossom\/\" title=\"Cherry blossom guide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/cherry-blossom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/cherry-blossom\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7829 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Our cherry blossom guide\" width=\"468\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture.jpg 1907w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-900x450.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-720x360.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-1440x720.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-390x195.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-780x390.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/capture-510x255.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our brand new cherry blossom guide!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Like this post? 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The city known for its gardens, old tea districts and samurai houses is a beautiful example of traditional Japan.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the new blue-nosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2356],"tags":[1305,1404],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-miscellaneous-blog-posts","tag-april-fools","tag-cherry-blossom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36550,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/36550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}