{"id":76147,"date":"2008-07-27T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T08:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-07-27T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T08:07:48","slug":"summer-hiking-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/summer-hiking-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Hiking Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/ko\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/komakusa.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Rainy season is over, and the summer hiking season has begun!<br \/>\nOn high mountains in and around Matsumoto, we can see a lot of alpine flowers now.<br \/>\nThis photo shows <em>komakusa<\/em>(Japanese bleeding heart), which can be seen on Jyonen-dake, Tsubakuro-dake, Yatsugatake, etc.<\/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\/seasonal-topics\/summer-hiking-season\/\" 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\/seasonal-topics\/summer-hiking-season\/\" data-text=\"Summer Hiking Season!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy season is over, and the summer hiking season has begun! 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