{"id":379635,"date":"2020-11-12T23:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitmatsumoto.com\/?p=379635"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:52:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:52:02","slug":"yohashira-shrine-the-colors-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/nature\/yohashira-shrine-the-colors-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Yohashira Shrine & The Colors of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

Recently a friend of mine from college posted a picture of our campus in all its fall color splendor. I was dumbstruck – not from the heart-stopping beauty, mind you, but from my total lack of recall. I don’t think I ever noticed campus looking like that.<\/p>\n

I got the same feeling this past weekend strolling the grounds of Yohashira Shrine.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

I don’t have a good excuse for never taking note of my campus in autumn. I might have one for missing the fall colors here at Yohashira-jinja every year until now: with the coronavirus situation still going on this is the first October\/November in years I haven’t largely spent guiding tours through other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

With any luck I’ll be back on the road next fall. This season, then, in Matsumoto, will be one to savor.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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This year’s foliage is by now past its peak. But again, with a little good fortune people will be back to traveling by the time next fall rolls around.<\/p>\n

If you happen to be in the neighborhood, swing by Yohashira Shrine.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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And swinging by could not be easier. Yohashira-jinja is right there next to Nawate-dori, aka Frog Street, just down the street from Matsumoto Castle.<\/p>\n

One more thing to note: due to Matsumoto’s elevation the leaves here change color well before the rest of Japan’s more traveled destinations like Kyoto, Tokyo and Nara – meaning you can catch the colors here without having to miss them along the rest of your way through Japan. <\/p>\n

Let’s just hope that it won’t be long before we can all get back to traveling!<\/p>\n

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