{"id":5022,"date":"2009-08-04T00:46:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2009-08-04T00:46:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:46:27","slug":"have-sushi-at-fish-market-then-check-pins-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/have-sushi-at-fish-market-then-check-pins-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Google Japans Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/google-japan-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"79\" \/><br \/>\nIn commemoration of announcing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.jp\/help\/maps\/favoriteplaces\/\">Favorite Places[J]<\/a>&#8221; as a promotion campaign of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Map<\/a>, on Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.jp\">Google Japan[J]<\/a> placed &#8220;real&#8221; red pins at several locations, which imitate mark-up symbols used on Google Map, including JR <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shibuya_Station\">Shibuya Station<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsukijihongwanji.jp\/tsukiji\/index_e.html\">a Buddhist temple<\/a> next to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsukiji-market.or.jp\/tukiji_e.htm\">Tokyo&#8217;s fish market<\/a> that foreign visitors never forget to drop by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5023\" title=\"Tsukiji Honganji Temple with Google Map Pins\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tsukiji2.jpg\" alt=\"Tsukiji Honganji Temple with Google Map Pins\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5024\" title=\"Google Map Pins at JR Shibuya Station\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shibuya2.jpg\" alt=\"Google Map Pins at JR Shibuya Station\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>\nThe pin statue is 4 meters (=13.1 feet) high, and a specially designed pin has a hole in the heart of its body,  where a small monitor shows you the video of hot spots selected by celebrities as their favorites.    The pin statues are exhibited at the following locations for the dates given.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honganji Temple in Tsukiji: from August 3rd to 9th<\/li>\n<li>West Exit, JR Ebisu Station: from August 3rd to 9th<\/li>\n<li>Center Exit, JR Shibuya Station: from August 3rd to 9th<\/li>\n<li>New South Exit, JR Shinjuku Station: from August 4th to 5th<\/li>\n<li>Central Exit, JR Ikebukuro Station: from August 8th to 9th<\/li>\n<li>Exit for Showa St., Akihabara Station: from August 8th to 9th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The videos being played at the pin with a hole are available on YouTube as well.   The following is prepared by Google Japan and introduces &#8220;Favorite Places&#8221; in Tokyo. (4 mins. 20 secs.)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ruQLwafL70E&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_profilepage&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ruQLwafL70E&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_profilepage&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nIn Kyoto, Japanese-style paper lanterns are decorated at the Favorite Places.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5028\" title=\"Paper Lantern with Google Map Icon\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/chochin.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Lantern with Google Map Icon\" width=\"442\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/googlejapan.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/google.html\">Google Japan Blog[J]<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/marketing\/story\/0,3800080523,20397746,00.htm\">CNET Japan[J]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commemoration of announcing &#8220;Favorite Places[J]&#8221; as a promotion campaign of Google Map, on Monday Google Japan[J] placed &#8220;real&#8221; red pins at several locations, which imitate mark-up symbols used on Google Map, including JR Shibuya Station and a Buddhist temple next to Tokyo&#8217;s fish market that foreign visitors never forget to drop by. The pin&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/have-sushi-at-fish-market-then-check-pins-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1156,1410,1416,3818],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-favorite-places","tag-google-japan","tag-google-maps","tag-tsukiji","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}