{"id":508,"date":"2019-12-26T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T06:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:47:31","slug":"immediately-from-takada-station-experience-japanese-culture-at-honcho-shopping-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/en\/508\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Movie\u3011Immediately from Takada Station!<br>Experience Japanese culture at Honcho Shopping Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"\">Introducing the appeal of Honcho Shopping Street in Joetsu City with a video!<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p>Takada is located 40 minutes by train from Myoko Kogen Station on the Echigo Toki-Meki Railway.\u00a0 The shopping district of Takada, Joetsu City has a history spanning over 100 years, and you can take in the rich Japanese culture while walking around the city. <br \/>\r\nBelow is a video summarizing its appeal.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zKwROVnS2p0?rel=0&amp;controls=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>A shopkeeper\u2019s community group was established in 2017 to attract foreign tourists and promote Takada Honcho Shopping Street in Joetsu City.\u00a0 It was created so foreign tourists staying at Akakura Onsen could visit Honcho shopping street by train after learning about the area.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joetsu.ne.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-low-src=\"https:\/\/www.joetsu.ne.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2-400x225.jpg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The reporter is Kate Meggy from Australia. She walked around Honcho Shopping Street and visited 10 stores including a kimono store, a Japanese sweets store, and an antiques store.\u00a0 Different aspects of Japanese culture can be experienced in each store, such as trying on kimonos, tasting sake, and buying and tasting Japanese sweets.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joetsu.ne.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-low-src=\"https:\/\/www.joetsu.ne.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3-400x225.jpg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The video also includes information on where there are shop employees who can communicate in English, as well as English supported train ticket vending machines and the post office ATM. The video is 14 minutes and 30 seconds long and is in English.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joetsu.ne.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Still1221_00003-4.jpg\" alt=\"Still1221_00003\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><div class=\"b-spot\"><h2>Joetsu City Takada Honcho Shopping Street<\/h2><div class=\"gmap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.jp\/maps?output=embed&hl=en&q=%E6%96%B0%E6%BD%9F%E7%9C%8C%E4%B8%8A%E8%B6%8A%E5%B8%82%E6%9C%AC%E7%94%BA4%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE4%E2%80%908\" width=\"100%\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"b-spot-detail\"><div class=\"b-spot-lt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"b-spot-rt\"><p class=\"info\"><b>Address: <\/b>4-4-8 Honcho, Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture<br><b>Access: <\/b> About 10 minutes on foot from Takada Station of Echigo Tokimeki Railway<br><\/p><p class=\"btn\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.jp\/maps\/place\/%E6%96%B0%E6%BD%9F%E7%9C%8C%E4%B8%8A%E8%B6%8A%E5%B8%82%E6%9C%AC%E7%94%BA4%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE4%E2%80%908?hl=en\">Google Map<i class=\"fas fa-fw fa-map-marker-alt\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing the appe&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"502","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[33,41,40],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-highlight","tag-33","tag-41","tag-40","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yukiguni-journey.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}