{"id":628,"date":"2024-11-29T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T08:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanko-yanai.crouton-t.net\/?p=628"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T03:33:50","slug":"koudai-ji-temple-wan-wan-dera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/en\/tourist-spot\/koudai-ji-temple-wan-wan-dera\/","title":{"rendered":"Koudai-ji Temple (Wan Wan Dera)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This uniquely-shaped 2-story temple gate was built in China&#8217;s Ming Dynasty style and has been known for its interesting resonating sound through a large space inside the white plastered tunnel. If you clap your hands under the tunnel-like gate, the echo sounds like &#8220;Wan Wan&#8221;, so many local people have been calling the temple &#8220;Wan Wan Dera&#8221;. There is a monument engraved with &#8220;Kunikida Doppo&#8217;s Soyu no Chi&#8221; on the right side of the gate commemorating the visit of famous novelist Doppo Kunikida, one of Meiji&#8217;s great Japanese novelists, who lived in the neighborhood and would often stop by this temple during his favorite pastime of walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This uniquely-shaped 2-story temple gate was built in China&#8217;s Ming Dynasty style and has been known for its interesting resonating sound through a large space inside the white plastered tunnel. If you clap your hands under the tunnel-like gate, the echo sounds like &#8220;Wan Wan&#8221;, so many local people have been calling the temple &#8220;Wan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/kanko-yanai.crouton-t.net\/?p=262","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourist-spot","en-US"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanai-kankou.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}