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<\/p>\nKurume’s huge water-themed festival sees all kinds of performances take place in the downtown area of the city. Meiji-dori Street will be pedestrianized during the event and provide the backdrop to some fantastic dance troupes! The annual event welcomes visitors in tens of thousands and comes to a close with the Chikugo-gawa Fireworks Festival, one of the largest fireworks displays in Kyushu. A big stage will be constructed in the Rokkukudo Plaza, which will host all kinds of attractions on the evening of Aug. 3, including a lottery draw that will give guests the chance to win some big prizes.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 8\/3 (Thu.) ~ 8\/5 (Sat.) Kurume’s huge water-themed festival sees all kinds of performances take place in the downtown area of the city. Meiji-dori Street will be pedestrianized during the event and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":101480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-101479","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kurume","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/101479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 18:00~21:00 (Thur.)
\n\u2022 13:00~21:10 (Fri.)
\n\u2022 19:40~21:10 (Sat.: Chikugo River Fireworks Festival)
\n\u2022 Free
\n\u2022 Meiji-dori Street, 9-1 Mutsumon-machi, Kurume<\/a>
\n\u2022 0942-31-1717\u3000
\n\u2022 http:\/\/kurume-matsuri.info\/index.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"