{"id":122678,"date":"2019-07-16T11:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T02:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=122678&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T02:32:40","slug":"kokura-gion-daiko","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kokura-gion-daiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokura Gion Daiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The energetic sounds of <em>taiko<\/em> drums fill the town of Kokura during Kokura Gion Daiko festival which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. It is also registered as one of the nation&#8217;s Intangible Folk Cultural Properties. In addition to parading of traditional floats, <em>taiko<\/em> drumming will be performed by more than eighty groups on stage in a competition on July 20.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kokura-gion-daiko.jpg?resize=1400%2C937&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"937\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kokura-gion-daiko.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kokura-gion-daiko.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kokura-gion-daiko.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kokura-gion-daiko.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: \u5c0f\u5009\u7947\u5712\u592a\u9f13\u4fdd\u5b58\u632f\u8208\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 7\/19 (Fri.) ~ 7\/21 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Times vary, check the schedule for details<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Kokura Castle area<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/pDCMQc8LWG5nXwaW6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 Jonai, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:093-562-3341\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">093-562-3341<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/kokuragiondaiko.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kokuragiondaiko.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energetic sounds of taiko drums fill the town of Kokura during Kokura Gion Daiko festival which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. It is also registered as one of the nation&#8217;s Intangible Folk Cultural Properties. In addition to parading of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":122679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-122678","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/122678","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=122678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}