{"id":292736,"date":"2026-07-27T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e6%99%82%e3%81%ae%e9%90%98-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:52:17","slug":"%e6%99%82%e3%81%ae%e9%90%98-2","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/292736\/","title":{"rendered":"The bells of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oss.allway-japan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SI_26008554_11662.jpg\"\/><br \/>The symbol of Kawagoe, the bell of the time<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The information provided reflects the details available at the time of the survey.<br \/>Please note that facility details may change due to the facility\u2019s circumstances, so please check for the latest information before visiting.\nThis content has been translated using machine translation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Information provided by: JTB Publishing<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This content uses automatic translation services. Automatic translations may not always be accurate.<br \/>Please note that the translated content may differ from the original meaning. We ask for your understanding when using this content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden bell tower that stands on the street from the first city street into the bell. It was reportedly built by the owner of Kawagoe Castle, Tadakatsu Sakai, during the Kanei years (1624-44). It was converted at the order of Nobunaka Matsudaira in the second year (1653). The current tower, which is 16.2m high and built with a cypress, was rebuilt after the Great Fire of Meiji 26 (1893). It is an electric type and tells the time four times every day: 6 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 15 o'clock and 18 o'clock.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197162,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292736","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spot"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/292736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/292736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}