{"id":76174,"date":"2009-07-24T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T06:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-07-24T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T06:07:20","slug":"a-karakuri-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/a-karakuri-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"A Karakuri Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/karakuri.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Did you know that the figurines in Matsumoto&#8217;s famous giant karakuri clock change? I didn&#8217;t!<br \/>\nOf course I have seen the giant clock spin open and whirl its mechanical figures before, but I always thought that they were permanent parts of the machine! In the past year, I&#8217;ve only seen a mechanical marching band turning around the ball&#8217;s center, but yesterday when I was riding past the clock, it opened and there were many figures of children dressed in kimono and playing with Matsumoto&#8217;s famous temari balls.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in the area and happen to be walking past the clock when it strikes on the hour, check and see who is dancing around the ball now!<\/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-karakuri-orange\/\" 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-karakuri-orange\/\" data-text=\"A Karakuri Orange\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the figurines in Matsumoto&#8217;s famous giant karakuri clock change? I didn&#8217;t! Of course I have seen the giant clock spin open and whirl its mechanical figures before, but I always thought that they were permanent parts of the machine! In the past year, I&#8217;ve only seen a mechanical marching band turning around the ball&#8217;s center, but yesterday when I was riding past the clock, it opened and there were many figures of children dressed in kimono and playing with Matsumoto&#8217;s famous temari balls. If you&#8217;re in the area and happen to be walking past the clock when it strikes on the hour, check and see who [&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-karakuri-orange\/\" 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-karakuri-orange\/\" data-text=\"A Karakuri Orange\"  >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>A Karakuri Orange | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did you know that the figurines in Matsumoto&#039;s famous giant karakuri clock change? 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