{"id":76123,"date":"2007-03-27T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-03-27T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T03:03:46","slug":"a-coveted-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/a-coveted-place-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"A coveted place to live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is just gathering momentum here in Matsumoto. As I rode my bike to work this morning I saw buds on the trees and hints of green everywhere.  It even smells like spring. This weekend I was able to spend another fantastic weekend in Hakuba just a short train ride away.  Unfortunately spring is there too and the resorts got rained on over the weekend:sad:. One of my good friends has been living up there and was in desperate search for a job in Matsumoto because of its balance of urban life and proximity to the mountains.  He is not alone I know many people that come to Matsumoto even to visit, and don\u2019t want to leave.<br \/>\nHe got lucky and found a job last week. If you are lucky enough to be living here, get out and enjoy it and let us know what it is that you love about this place!<\/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\/a-coveted-place-to-live\/\" 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\/a-coveted-place-to-live\/\" data-text=\"A coveted place to live\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is just gathering momentum here in Matsumoto. As I rode my bike to work this morning I saw buds on the trees and hints of green everywhere. It even smells like spring. This weekend I was able to spend another fantastic weekend in Hakuba just a short train ride away. Unfortunately spring is there too and the resorts got rained on over the weekend:sad:. One of my good friends has been living up there and was in desperate search for a job in Matsumoto because of its balance of urban life and proximity to the mountains. He is not alone I know many people that come to Matsumoto even [&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\/a-coveted-place-to-live\/\" 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\/a-coveted-place-to-live\/\" data-text=\"A coveted place to live\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"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>A coveted place to live | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spring is just gathering momentum here in Matsumoto. 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