{"id":103780,"date":"2017-10-19T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=103780&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:14:46","slug":"karatsu-kunchi-4","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/karatsu-kunchi-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Karatsu Kunchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This festival has been held since the 1500s. The highlight is the parade of 14 ornately decorated, five-meter-high floats built in the shape of auspicious symbols: a carp, a dragon, a lion, etc. These are wheeled through the streets accompanied by the beat of <em>taiko<\/em> drums and the vigorous chants of the handlers.<\/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\/03-Karatsu-kunchi.jpg?resize=1400%2C933\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/03-Karatsu-kunchi.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/03-Karatsu-kunchi.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/03-Karatsu-kunchi.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/03-Karatsu-kunchi.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/2 (Thu.) ~ 11\/4 (Sat.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Times vary<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 From Karatsu Jinja Shrine to Karatsu City<br \/>\n\u2022 Karatsu Jinja Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/ffDSZNgu7V42\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-13 Minamijonai, Karatsu, Saga<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 0955-72-4963 (Karatsu Station Tourist Information Center)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karatsu-kankou.jp\/en\/feature\/karatsukunchi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.karatsu-kankou.jp\/en\/feature\/karatsukunchi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festival has been held since the 1500s. The highlight is the parade of 14 ornately decorated, five-meter-high floats built in the shape of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":103781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-103780","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-karatsu","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/103780","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=103780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}