{"id":272,"date":"2003-04-29T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T10:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=272"},"modified":"2003-04-29T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T10:52:54","slug":"visit-to-sado-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/29\/visit-to-sado-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit To Sado Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sado01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/sado01.jpg?resize=350%2C255\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSado Island (Sado-ga-shima) is a bit off the map in Japan &#8212; just the way I like it. Situated about 40 km off the western coast of Japan, Sado is an island where for centuries people &#8212; including an ex-emperor &#8212; were sent into exile. These days it&#8217;s known for its scenery, for views of an older and slower style of Japanese life, and for the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/\">Kodo drummers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sado02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/sado02.jpg?resize=350%2C185\" width=\"350\" height=\"185\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMy mother and I took the train from Nagano to Naoestu on the coast, then a ferry into the small port of Ogi on the southern tip of the island. We stayed for three nights in three different minshuku (Japanese inns), ate loads of fresh seafood for both dinner and breakfast, and drove almost 400km in our rented car while circumnavigating and crossing the island.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sado03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/sado03.jpg?resize=350%2C255\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe weather was rainy the first day, but cleared into perfect, warm, sunny days after that. Tourists were almost non-existent (too early in the season), so the roads, beaches, mountains and trails seemed relatively deserted. I did my first swim in the Sea of Japan off an empty beach that stretched for several kilometers.<br \/>\nA visit to Sado is highly recommended for those of you here in Japan, and this is the perfect time of year to go.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/photos\/2003\/sado\/\">More pictures are here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sado Island (Sado-ga-shima) is a bit off the map in Japan &#8212; just the way I like it. Situated about 40 km off the western coast of Japan, Sado is an island where for centuries people &#8212; including an ex-emperor &#8212; were sent into exile. These days it&#8217;s known for its scenery, for views of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/29\/visit-to-sado-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visit To Sado Island<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entries-with-images","category-life-in-japan","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-4o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}