{"id":117,"date":"2009-07-28T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-07-28T01:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:07:43","slug":"come-shake-your-bon-bon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/come-shake-your-bon-bon\/","title":{"rendered":"Come shake your Bon-Bon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/BONBON-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>No, seriously.<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s the season for festivals in Japan and if you check on the <a href=\"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/contents08+index.htm\">Events Calender<\/a> there&#8217;s a huge one coming up at the end of the month. It&#8217;s time for <a href=\"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/contents08+index.htm#bonbon\">Matsumoto Bon Bon<\/a>!<br \/>\nThis event shuts down central Matsumoto as hundreds of residents fill the streets to dance. It&#8217;s a good excuse for everyone to get outside and drink and revel (but being Japan, revel safely &#8211; this is definitely a kid-friendly event).<br \/>\nThe festival lanterns went up on all the main streets over Marine Day weekend and Bon-Bon fever has been subliminally planted into everyone&#8217;s heads through constant replay of the Bon-Bon theme at grocery stores, shops, and from humming coworkers. I saw a couple groups practicing their dance routine over the weekend &#8211; we&#8217;re gearing up for a great festival, so definitely come join us this Saturday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/come-shake-your-bon-bon\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/come-shake-your-bon-bon\/\" data-text=\"Come shake your Bon-Bon!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously. Summer&#8217;s the season for festivals in Japan and if you check on the Events Calender there&#8217;s a huge one coming up at the end of the month. It&#8217;s time for Matsumoto Bon Bon! This event shuts down central Matsumoto as hundreds of residents fill the streets to dance. It&#8217;s a good excuse for everyone to get outside and drink and revel (but being Japan, revel safely &#8211; this is definitely a kid-friendly event). The festival lanterns went up on all the main streets over Marine Day weekend and Bon-Bon fever has been subliminally planted into everyone&#8217;s heads through constant replay of the Bon-Bon theme at grocery stores, shops, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/come-shake-your-bon-bon\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/come-shake-your-bon-bon\/\" data-text=\"Come shake your Bon-Bon!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Come shake your Bon-Bon! | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, seriously. 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