{"id":76216,"date":"2011-04-13T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-04-13T23:46:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:46:02","slug":"cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherries have started to bloom 11th at the Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110411_02.jpg?resize=278%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignright size-full\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Cherry blossoms (<em>sakura<\/em>) have started to bloom the day before yesterday (April 11th) at <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+3.htm\">Matsumoto Castle<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt will be in full bloom this weekend (16-17th).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/contents08+index.htm#cherry\">The nighttime cherry blossom viewing event<\/a> will be held from tomorrow till 21.  The classical gagaku music will not be perfomed and the castle park is lit up at night only 7-9pm (normal year, 6-10pm) this year because of the earthquake, but other events such as Japanese tea ceremony in the garden will be held as usual.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110411_c02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>We started <a href=\"\/contents11+index.id+11.htm\">\u201cCherry Blossom Live Camera\u201d page<\/a> this year, too.<\/p>\n<p>This year, cherries have been waited and expected to encourage Japanese people.<br clear=all><\/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\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle\/\" 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\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle\/\" data-text=\"Cherries have started to bloom 11th at the Castle\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry blossoms (sakura) have started to bloom the day before yesterday (April 11th) at Matsumoto Castle. It will be in full bloom this weekend (16-17th). The nighttime cherry blossom viewing event will be held from tomorrow till 21. The classical gagaku music will not be perfomed and the castle park is lit up at night only 7-9pm (normal year, 6-10pm) this year because of the earthquake, but other events such as Japanese tea ceremony in the garden will be held as usual. We started \u201cCherry Blossom Live Camera\u201d page this year, too. This year, cherries have been waited and expected to encourage Japanese people.<\/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\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle\/\" 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\/seasonal-topics\/cherries-started-to-bloom-on-11th-at-the-castle\/\" data-text=\"Cherries have started to bloom 11th at the Castle\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359],"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>Cherries have started to bloom 11th at the Castle | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cherry blossoms (sakura) have started to bloom the day before yesterday (April 11th) at Matsumoto Castle. 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