{"id":15541,"date":"2026-01-24T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15541"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:52:11","slug":"ghibli-like-tours-from-your-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15541","title":{"rendered":"Ghibli-like tours from your couch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I loved traveling in Japan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CindyandDion\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CindyandDion\">Cindy and Dion <\/a>have a wonderful youtube channel where they quietly tour amazing places in Japan. I love how they simply edit together the experience without talking\/voice overs and simply capture the sounds of the experience with mellow Ghibli-like music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of brash and loud over-produced influencer videos, it feels very much like many of my solitary trips that I would do. I love just letting them run in the background and soak it all in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/icwArpzyKCk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved traveling in Japan. Cindy and Dion have a wonderful youtube channel where they quietly tour amazing places in Japan. I love how they simply edit together the experience without talking\/voice overs and simply capture the sounds of the experience with mellow Ghibli-like music. Instead of brash and loud over-produced influencer videos, it feels very much like many of my solitary trips that I would do. I love just letting them run in the background and soak it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15541\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-42F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15542,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions\/15542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}