{"id":4254,"date":"2024-10-11T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/blog\/japan-should-you-believe-the-hype-part-1-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:50:59","slug":"japan-should-you-believe-the-hype-part-1-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/blog\/japan-should-you-believe-the-hype-part-1-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan \u2013 should you believe the hype? &#8211; Part 1: Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan is at the top of most travel lists at the moment. But should you believe the hype? In a word, yes\u2026 but not for what you\u2019d expect. Back from a mini-sabbatical in Japan updating our country knowledge, we share our (possibly controversial) view on the what deserves the hype, and what is overrated, in Tokyo. See our blog <a href=\"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/blog\/japan-should-you-believe-the-hype-part-2-kyoto\/#page-top\">\n  <strong>here<\/strong>\n<\/a> to review the hype on Kyoto and elsewhere.  <br\/><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is at the top of most travel lists at the moment. But should you believe the hype? In a word, yes\u2026 but not for what you\u2019d expect. Back from a mini-sabbatical in Japan updating our country knowledge, we share our (possibly controversial) view on the what deserves the hype, and what is overrated, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4005,"template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"blog_category":[170,162,166,163],"class_list":["post-4254","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog_category-asia-en-us","blog_category-experiential-holiday-knowledge-en-us","blog_category-experiential-holidays-en-us","blog_category-off-the-beaten-path-en-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linger.seargenius.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}