{"id":84,"date":"2016-10-27T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sac.hotatebros.com\/en\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:17:31","slug":"interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/chikuma-river\/interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"container row gutters\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<h2 class=\"h3\">Kenji\u00a0Kono<\/h2>\n<p class=\"italic\">Former World Cup and X Game skier, SUP and camping guide. A native of, and based in Nozawa Onsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is great snow in my hometown, Nozawa Onsen, something that draws skiers and snowboarders from around the world. The green season\u2014spring to autumn\u2014has always been a bigger challenge for tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started using a stand-up paddleboard (SUP) when I was training for skiing. When I took it out on the Chikuma River, which flows through Nozawa, I discovered a completely new side to the river, almost like I was looking in as an outsider. And I thought the beauty you see here, from the mustard blossoms in spring to the deep green forests of summer and the beautiful fall colors, would be something that would attract people to our area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith some other guides, I decided that I needed to see the entire river, so in October 2015 I paddled the whole river, from the headwaters of the Chikuma to its exit in the Sea of Japan as the Shinano River, a total distance of 367 kilometers. IT\u2019s fantastic to see the river change from a tumbling stream in the mountains, the widening river as more and more tributaries feed in, and then the major river emptying into the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people won\u2019t take this seven-day journey, of course, but anyone can enjoy this peaceful river on a visit to the area. Several canoe and rafting guide companies are here to help you enjoy this attraction that I think is unlike anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenji\u00a0Kono Former World Cup and X Game skier, SUP and camping guide. A native of, and based in Nozawa Onsen. \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/203"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinetsu-activity.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}