{"id":713,"date":"2012-10-05T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T06:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=713"},"modified":"2012-10-05T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T06:18:56","slug":"soba-festival-in-matsumoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/gourmet\/soba-festival-in-matsumoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Soba Festival in Matsumoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matsumoto Soba Festival is very similar to the harvest festival in other countries.<br \/>\nIn the castle garden, dozens of booths and stalls with regional food products including &#8220;soba&#8221; are welcoming people.<br \/>\nThis year, eighteen different soba restaurants join for the festival, you can enjoy subtle and delicate taste of soba at each soba booth.<br \/>\nBring your own chopsticks and eco-bag is recommended.<br \/>\nOct 6th &#8211; 8th (10:00 &#8211; 16:00)<br \/>\nAt: <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+3.htm\">Matsumoto castle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/annai-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/annai-0-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/annai-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/annai-1-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/a><\/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=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/gourmet\/soba-festival-in-matsumoto\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/gourmet\/soba-festival-in-matsumoto\/\" data-text=\"Soba Festival in Matsumoto\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matsumoto Soba Festival is very similar to the harvest festival in other countries. 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