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The Japan Touring Blog Editor includes 47 built-in blocks that simplify creating interesting and eye-catching formats for your blogs. The types of blocks include those for Layout such as heading and tabs; Elements such as alerts and quotes; Media such as images and PDFs; and Embeddables for including your content from such media sites as Spotify and YouTube. Availability of the blocks depends on your level of membership in Japan Touring. The levels of membership are Standard, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
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Blog Editor
The Japan Touring Blog Editor includes 47 built-in blocks that simplify creating interesting and eye-catching formats for your blogs. The types of blocks include those for Layout such as heading and tabs; Elements such as alerts and quotes; Media such as images and PDFs; and Embeddables for including your content from such media sites as Spotify and YouTube. Availability of the blocks depends on your level of membership in Japan Touring. The levels of membership are Standard, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
A new and simplied editor enables you to concentrate on content rather than layout. You are also provided with a choice of editors. One is similar to editors found in Microsoft and Apple applications. Another is an editor based on blocks that simplify layouts.
Our Blog built-in editor is a block-oriented app that allows you to move blocks of content, such as images and text, to different areas of the page as you wish.
Easily customize and tweak block properties within the composer
Layout (7)
- Heading
Heading to help visitors and search engines understand the structure of the content - Text
Insert a paragraph of text for the content of your post - Tabs
Separate structure of the content within their own tabs - Columns
Structure blocks in the content into multiple columns - Table
Insert a table into your content to share data and charts - Section
Structure multiple blocks together in a section. Create reusable sections - Accordion
Create hidden or visible blocks using the accordion block
Elements (6)
- Alerts
Insert an alert on your post. Includes 4 different note styles - Notes
Insert a note into your post. - Quotes
Provide quoted text visual emphasis. Includes 4 different unique styles - Buttons
Prompt visitors to take action with a group of button-styled links - Links
Displays a simple preview of the link within the post - Code
Display code snippets in your post. Works with most programming languages
Media (8)
- Image
Insert an image in your content. Includes 7 different image styles to choose from - Gallery
Insert a beautiful gallery by selecting multiple images - Thumbnails
Displays multiple images in a grid layout. Choose a stacked or grid layout - Video
Embeds a video player in the post using existing or new video files - Audio
Embeds an audio player in the post using existing or new audio files - Files
Embed any other download-able files on the web with a download button - PDF
Embed PDF file with a built-in PDF viewer on the post - Comparison
Provide visitors with a comparison between different image blocks
Misc. (5)
- HTML
Write your own custom html codes when you need to - Horizontal Rule
Create a break between sections with a horizontal separator - Readmore
Insert a breakpoint to distinguish between the intro text and full text - Page Break Separator
Separate contents on the post with the page break separator - Joomla Module
Embed modules from the site in your blog post
Embeddables (21)
- Gist
Embed Gist widgets from Github in your post - Instagram
Embed stylish Instagram widgets in your post - Spotify
Embed Spotify music player widgets in your post - Behance
Showcase creative works by embedding Behance widget in your post - Soundcloud
Embed Soundcloud music player in your blog post - Codepen
Showcase your Codepen ideas by embedding widgets in your post - Twitter
Embed or quote a Tweet by using the Tweet widget in your post - Pinterest
Showcase and embed Pinterest widgets in your post - Youtube
Embed a Youtube video player in your post. Includes additional player settings - Vimeo
Embeds videos from Vimeo with its own video player in your post - Daily Motion
Embed Daily Motion video player in your blog post - TED
Embed inspiring TED videos in your blog post - Metacafe
Embed Metacafe video player in your blog post by entering the links to the video - Facebook
Embed Facebook posts in your blog post by sharing the link to the post - Sendy Newsletter
Embed a subscription form for Sendy newsletters in your blog post - GIPHY
Embed GIPHY GIFs and stickers in your blog post - Polls
Embed a polling form in the post using the Polls block - TikTok
Embed interactive TikTok posts in your blog post - Lottie
Include unique and flashy animations with Lottie in the post - Apple
Embed podcasts, music, album and playlist from Apple Music - Twitch
Embed live streams, video on demand, clip or chat from Twitch
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Blog Editor
Compose with the block-based editor and enjoy all the goodies of a WYSIWYG editor but even better! Simplifies authoring experience.
The built-in editor in EasyBlog provides an easy-to-use drag & drop authoring experience. Authoring has never been easier.
Layout (7)
Media Manager
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Reading
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Mobile & Tablet Ready
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SEO
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Layout & Themes
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Administration
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Integrations
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Other Cool Features
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Media Manager
Article Folders
Each of your posts is automatically categorized with its own unique folder making media management extremely simple.
Simple Image Editor
The Image Editor allows you to crop, resize, and rotate images.
Access to online free online images provided via the Unsplash service.
Flickr Integration
Bloggers having a Flickr account can search for and embed their images into their blogs.
Shared Media
Bloggers wishing to share media with other bloggers can do so via the Global Shared Folder
Watermarking
Bloggers can automatically apply image watermarks on images uploaded via the media manager.
Dark Mode
You have the ability to present you blog in the "Darks Mode" if you so want to.
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Takeo and Jim are in the process of creating a series of English/Japanese lessons based on different places that they visit in Matsuzaki and other localities in the Izu Peninsula area.
Our first one can be seen in the youtube video after clicking on the Read More link below.
We recently visited the Inashimo shrine in Matsuzaki and had an extremely interesting interview with the shrine priest who kindly showed us the shrine and the museum that he has created there. This is definitely a place to visit while you are in Matsuzaki.

Futo Beach is a hidden beauty among the many nooks and crannies found along the west side of the Izu Peninsula. The beach is created of stones that have been rounded by centuries of waves pounding on the volcanic cliffs surrounding the two small bays found in Futo. On the south side,