{"id":103554,"date":"2017-10-06T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=103554&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:49:26","slug":"sumo-winter-tour-2017","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/sumo-winter-tour-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo Winter Tour 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Nogata Mochikichi Basho will take place in Nogata City, giving people in Kyushu a great opportunity to watch live <em>sumo<\/em>. The Nihon Sumo Kyokai (Japanese Sumo Association) tournament will be held in cooperation with rice cracker manufacturers Mochikichi. Back for a fourth consecutive year, this is the eighth time the tournament has been staged since Mochikichi started promoting the event in 1991. Tickets are due to go on sale in mid-September.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sumo-mochikichi.jpg?resize=1400%2C1979\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1979\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sumo-mochikichi.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sumo-mochikichi.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sumo-mochikichi.jpg?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sumo-mochikichi.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sumo Winter Tour, Nogata Mochikichi Basho<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 12\/6 (Wed.)<br \/>\n\u2022 8:00~15:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Nogata City Gymnasium<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/99fwtUXQsiL2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">674-25 Nogata, Nogata, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 0949-28-8125 (Nogata Mochikichi Basho Executive Office)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mochidangomura\/posts\/1645628472127414\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mochidangomura\/posts\/1645628472127414<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Nogata Mochikichi Basho will take place in Nogata City, giving people in Kyushu a great opportunity to watch live <em>sumo<\/em>. The Nihon Sumo Kyokai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":103556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-103554","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","event-type-culture","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/103554","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=103554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}