{"id":803,"date":"2012-11-17T14:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-11-17T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:52:57","slug":"2012-ski-season-has-already-started-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/sightseeing\/2012-ski-season-has-already-started-from-today\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Ski season has already started from TODAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hakuba Goryu, Hakuba 47, Hakuba Happone and \u00a0Shigakogen Kumanoyu, has <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">opened from Today, the 17th of November.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shiga_ski_3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" title=\"shiga_ski_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shiga_ski_3-193x300.jpg?resize=193%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hakuba_ski_1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" title=\"hakuba_ski_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hakuba_ski_1-184x300.jpg?resize=184%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Ski in NAgano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowlove.net\/japan\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" title=\"hakuba_ski_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hakuba_ski_2-184x300.jpg?resize=184%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About snow conditions and prices, check the following website \u2192<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <a title=\"Ski in NAgano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowlove.net\/japan\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ski in Nagano<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/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\/sightseeing\/2012-ski-season-has-already-started-from-today\/\" 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\/sightseeing\/2012-ski-season-has-already-started-from-today\/\" data-text=\"2012 Ski season has already started from TODAY!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakuba Goryu, Hakuba 47, Hakuba Happone and \u00a0Shigakogen Kumanoyu, has opened from Today, the 17th of November. 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