{"id":76197,"date":"2010-04-11T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=139"},"modified":"2010-04-11T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T14:04:10","slug":"cherries-at-matsumoto-castle-are-in-full-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-at-matsumoto-castle-are-in-full-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherries at Matsumoto Castle Are in Full Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/DSCN0156.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>This year, the cherry trees at <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+3.htm\">Matsumoto Castle<\/a> started to bloom on April 6th and almost in full bloom now.<br \/>\nYou can check out the cherry blossoms in the\u201c<a href=\"\/contents11+index.id+11.htm\">Cherry Blossom Live Camera\u201d page<\/a> we started from last year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/contents08+index.htm#cherry\">Nighttime cherry blossom viewing event<\/a> is held till April 16. You can drink Japanese tea served by kimono women, purchase sweet rice dumplings, and listen to perfomances of the classical gagaku music.<br \/>\nAlso, inside and outside the castle park is lit up at night till April 17 from 6pm-10pm.<\/p>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/IMG_2257-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/IMG_2264.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\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\/cherries-at-matsumoto-castle-are-in-full-bloom\/\" 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\/cherries-at-matsumoto-castle-are-in-full-bloom\/\" data-text=\"Cherries at Matsumoto Castle Are in Full Bloom\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the cherry trees at Matsumoto Castle started to bloom on April 6th and almost in full bloom now. 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