{"id":109882,"date":"2018-04-26T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=109882&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-04-26T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:30:45","slug":"shimenawa-festival-at-sakurai-jinja-shrine","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/shimenawa-festival-at-sakurai-jinja-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimenawa Festival at Sakurai Jinja Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main tourism spots in the Itoshima region is Meotoiwa in Futamigaura, the \u201cCouples Rock\u201d located 150 m from the beach. It\u2019s a great place to watch the sunset and every year, a ceremony is held in late April to replace the <em>shimenawa<\/em> (straw garland) that encircles Meotoiwa. At 30 m long and weighing 1 ton, the <em>shimenawa<\/em> will require approximately 60 men to hang it over the rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/18193405_1320962688020342_3225352497775075917_o-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-109767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/18193405_1320962688020342_3225352497775075917_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/18193405_1320962688020342_3225352497775075917_o.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/18193405_1320962688020342_3225352497775075917_o.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/18193405_1320962688020342_3225352497775075917_o.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 4\/30 (Mon., hol.)<br \/>\n\u2022 8:00~ (<em>shimenawa<\/em> replacement: 16:00~ *depends on tides)<br \/>\n\u2022 Sakurai Jinja Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/6Be5jCnotdp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4227 Shima Sakurai, Itoshima City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:092-327-0317\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">092-327-0317<\/a> (Sakurai Jinja Shrine)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakuraijinja.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sakuraijinja.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main tourism spots in the Itoshima region is Meotoiwa in Futamigaura, the \u201cCouples Rock\u201d located 150 m from the beach. It\u2019s a great place to watch the sunset and every year, a ceremony is held in late April to replace the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":109767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-109882","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-itoshima","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/109882","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=109882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}