{"id":237,"date":"2007-01-22T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-05-11T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T05:58:34","slug":"jra-ritto-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/jra-ritto-training-center\/","title":{"rendered":"JRA Ritto Training Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finally visited the JRA Ritto Training Center on Sunday. It was very interesting. I highly recommend this free tour, especially if you like horses.<\/p>\n

JRA offers free tours on Sundays 1 pm – 2:30 pm and on Wed. during the early morning (5 am to 7 am or so) when you can see the horses running on the training track.<\/p>\n

There are buses from Kusatsu Station twice an hour. Takes about 30 min. Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n

Our tour guide drove us in a van to various places. We saw the training track, horse stables, swimming pool where the horses swim, and watched the horses being washed. We even got to ride a retired race horse.<\/p>\n

We didn’t get to see any horses running on the track though. They do that in the early morning, and you can see it during the early morning tour on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

Over 2,000 horses and 4,000 trainers and staff live there. Besides the track, the place looks like a huge danchi with rows of horse stables and living quarters.<\/p>\n

Pictures:
\nhttps:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=469<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve never seen a horse race in Japan, so now I have see a horse race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally visited the JRA Ritto Training Center on Sunday. It was very interesting. I highly recommend this free tour, especially if you like horses. JRA offers free tours on Sundays 1 pm – 2:30 pm and on Wed. during… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ritto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}