{"id":1447,"date":"2013-06-07T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2013-06-07T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T07:12:20","slug":"umihotaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/umihotaru\/","title":{"rendered":"Umihotaru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/umihotaru\/page1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1448\" alt=\"umi hotaru\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/page11-480x479.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/page11-480x479.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/page11-268x268.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/page11-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/page11.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Umihotaru<\/strong> is a glorified parking lot built at great cost in the <strong>middle of the ocean<\/strong> \u2013 Tokyo Bay to be exact. The artificial island is known as umihotaru and the highway project goes by the name of <strong>Tokyo Aqua-Line<\/strong>, combining central Tokyo with southern Chiba prefecture. \u00a0Connecting Chiba prefecture with Umihotaru is a bridge of about 4.4km. The whole thing took 31 years to finish. Officially it is a rest area for drivers but in reality it is for most people the only reason to use the tunnel. The island has restaurants, cafes, parking and rest spaces, a viewing deck &#8211; that is quite popular with plane spotters (Narita Airport is very close). There is even a <strong>Starbucks<\/strong> cafe on the island. As far as I know, the only Starbucks cafe in the middle of the ocean.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umihotaru is a glorified parking lot built at great cost in the middle of the ocean \u2013 Tokyo Bay to be exact. The artificial island is known as umihotaru and the highway project goes by the name of Tokyo Aqua-Line, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/umihotaru\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}