{"id":2073,"date":"2013-11-27T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T01:55:40","slug":"senmaida-one-thousand-rice-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/senmaida-one-thousand-rice-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Senmaida &#8211; &#8220;One Thousand Rice Fields&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cSenmaida\u201d<\/strong> literally means<strong> \u201cone thousand rice paddies,\u201d<\/strong> but the senmaida of the <strong>Noto Peninsula<\/strong> contain almost double that amount. Each of the rice paddies is too small for modern machines to be used, so farmers must plant and harvest their rice by hand. For 20,000 yen (US$197) a year, anyone can own their own small rice paddy and experience traditional planting methods. Every year in October, the fields are lined with thousands of candles, creating a magical atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/senmaida-one-thousand-rice-fields\/terraced-rice-fields2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2074\" alt=\"terraced-rice-fields2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/terraced-rice-fields2-480x317.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/terraced-rice-fields2-480x317.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/terraced-rice-fields2.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSenmaida\u201d literally means \u201cone thousand rice paddies,\u201d but the senmaida of the Noto Peninsula contain almost double that amount. Each of the rice paddies is too small for modern machines to be used, so farmers must plant and harvest their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/senmaida-one-thousand-rice-fields\/\">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-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}