{"id":41,"date":"2007-10-26T22:59:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T05:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-10-26T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T05:59:49","slug":"about-kakuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/about-kakuda","title":{"rendered":"About Kakuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e3\u20ac\u20acAlthough steeped in natural beauty and a long history, Kakuda City is also home to two of Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading space development facilities: the National Aerospace Laboratory of Science and Technology and the Kakuda Propulsion Center (a branch of the National Space Development Agency).<\/p>\n<p>\u00e3\u20ac\u20acCentrally located in the city is Daiyama Park, which features an observation tower (Space Tower), a space science hall (Cosmo House), and a true-to-size model of an H-II Rocket that stands forty-nine meters high.  Each of these is designed to arouse the interest of children and to deepen their understanding of space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e3\u20ac\u20acMost visitors to the city first arrive at Kakuda Station on the Abukuma Express Line.  And what a welcome they receive!  They find themselves in a mock-up space station combined with a community plaza (Oak Plaza).<\/p>\n<p>\u00e3\u20ac\u20acThroughout Kakuda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four magnificent seasons, the friendly locals give that extra touch of warmth that makes the sightseer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s visit especially memorable.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Taken from the city of Kakuda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.kakuda.miyagi.jp\/english\/\">official site<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e3\u20ac\u20acAlthough steeped in natural beauty and a long history, Kakuda City is also home to two of Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading space development facilities: the National Aerospace Laboratory of Science and Technology and the Kakuda Propulsion Center (a branch of the National Space Development Agency). \u00e3\u20ac\u20acCentrally located in the city is Daiyama Park, which features an observation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zCVL-F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sistercitiesofgreenfield.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}