{"id":1522,"date":"2021-05-27T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2021-05-29T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:11:15","slug":"hase-dera-temple-floating-in-a-sea-of-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Hase-dera Temple floating in a sea of cherry blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at these flowers and their subtle but elegant gradation from white to pink!<\/p>\n<p>Hase-dera is known as the \u201ctemple of flowers.\u201d Peonies that bloom in late spring and winter are a kind of symbol of this temple, but cherry blossoms in early spring are also exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>It looks as if the mountain is wearing a pink veil of flowers or the temple is floating in a sea of cherry blossoms. You can enjoy the flower for comparatively long period of time here, thanks to the variation in the kind of cherry trees &#8212; some bloom earlier and some later than others.<\/p>\n<p>While young flowers almost reaching full bloom are impeccably beautiful, falling petals after full bloom also touch our hearts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1519\" src=\"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/hasedera_2104_cherrysteps-940x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nWeeping cherry trees in full bloom<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1518\" src=\"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/hasedera_2104_cherrypagoda1-599x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nView of the five-story pagoda from the balcony<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1520\" src=\"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/hasedera_2104_cherrypagoda2-454x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nLooking up the pagoda from the Main Lecture Hall<\/p>\n<div class=\"movie-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_X-7NQR39bg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>360-degree view from the balcony<\/p>\n<div class=\"movie-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXohtuv3MME?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Panoramic view of the temple with falling cherry blossoms<\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos taken on April 1, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nAddress: 731-1, Hase, Sakurai City, Nara 633-0112 Japan<\/p>\n<p>Official website (English)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hasedera.or.jp\/free\/?id=345\">https:\/\/www.hasedera.or.jp\/free\/?id=345<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look at these flowers and their subtle but elegant gradation from white to pink! Hase-dera is known as the \u201ctemple of flowers.\u201d Peonies that bloom in late spring and winter are a kind of symbol of this temple, but cherry blossoms in early spring are also exceptional. It looks as if the mountain is wearing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorenara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}