{"id":760,"date":"2012-10-22T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=760"},"modified":"2012-10-22T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:07:46","slug":"free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Market in Matsumoto Oct 26th &#038; 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u25cfOctober 26th Friday \u00a0 10:00~14:00<\/strong><br \/>\nAt: <a href=\"http:\/\/furimanet.com\/alpkouen.html\"> <strong>Alps Park East Entrance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25cfOctober 28th Sunday \u00a011:00~15:00<\/strong><br \/>\nAt:\u00a0<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/furimanet.com\/sanday.html\">Flower Clock Park in front of PARCO<\/a> <\/strong>(Matsumoto downtown)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25cfNovember 3rd Saturday \u00a010:00~15:30<br \/>\n<\/strong>At: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/furimanet.com\/1103siminsai.html\"> Flower Clock Park in front of PARCO<\/a> <\/strong>(Matsumoto downtown)<\/p>\n<p>*With accordance to <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/furimanet.com\/\">Furimanet Shinshu<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> policies, \u00a0the title used here as <em><strong>Free Market<\/strong><\/em> not <strong><em>Flea Market<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Because these free markets held in Alps Park and downtown Matsumoto \u00a0are organized by general citizen. The participants with commercial purposes (who deals in commercial products and intend to make profit out from them) are not welcomed. \u00a0 Therefore the definition of the market in Matsumoto city&#8217;s are a bit different from flea market in general.<\/p>\n<p>You can enjoy \u00a0cultural exchange with real people in Matsumoto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/06sm014.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" title=\"06sm014\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/06sm014.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFlower Clock Park in front of PARCO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/06sm009.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" title=\"06sm009\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/06sm009.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to get there: \u00a05 minutes walk from Matsumoto Station, in front of PARCO department store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/alp11.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" title=\"O\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/alp11.jpg?resize=448%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"322\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PA310097.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" title=\"O\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PA310097.jpg?resize=448%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alps Park East Entrance<br \/>\nHow to get there: \u00a0Take \u201c<strong>Alps Park  line<\/strong>\u201d from Matsumoto bus terminal, the free market is held at further  end of the park near East Entrance (with big parking area).<\/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\/shopping\/free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th\/\" 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\/shopping\/free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th\/\" data-text=\"Free Market in Matsumoto Oct 26th &amp; 28th\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25cfOctober 26th Friday \u00a0 10:00~14:00 At: Alps Park East Entrance \u25cfOctober 28th Sunday \u00a011:00~15:00 At:\u00a0 Flower Clock Park in front of PARCO (Matsumoto downtown) \u25cfNovember 3rd Saturday \u00a010:00~15:30 At: \u00a0 Flower Clock Park in front of PARCO (Matsumoto downtown) *With accordance to &#8220;Furimanet Shinshu&#8220; policies, \u00a0the title used here as Free Market not Flea Market. \u00a0Because these free markets held in Alps Park and downtown Matsumoto \u00a0are organized by general citizen. The participants with commercial purposes (who deals in commercial products and intend to make profit out from them) are not welcomed. \u00a0 Therefore the definition of the market in Matsumoto city&#8217;s are a bit different from flea market in [&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\/shopping\/free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th\/\" 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\/shopping\/free-market-in-matsumoto-oct-26th-28th\/\" data-text=\"Free Market in Matsumoto Oct 26th &amp; 28th\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359,2364,2357,2353,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/06sm014-1.jpg?fit=640%2C480","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free Market in Matsumoto Oct 26th &amp; 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