{"id":127495,"date":"2019-11-14T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=127495&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:51:59","slug":"yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanagisaka Wax Tree Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This festival celebrates the beautiful 1.2 km stretch of 260 Yanagisaka wax trees in the Toyoda area. The trees were planted by the Kurume Clan about 270 years ago in order to gather wax for lighting and are designated natural treasures of Fukuoka Prefecture. Browse for delicious local produce such as fruits, vegetables, honey made from wax tree flowers, as well as handicrafts made with wax tree materials against a backdrop that was selected as one of the country\u2019s 100 most beautiful tree-lined boulevards. <\/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\/10\/haze-kurume-2015-02-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/haze-kurume-2015-02-WEB-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/haze-kurume-2015-02-WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/haze-kurume-2015-02-WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/haze-kurume-2015-02-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/16 (Sat.) ~ 12\/1 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Open to pedestrians: 11\/16, 17, 23 &#038; 24<br \/>\n\u2022 11\/23 (Sat.): <em>mochitsuki<\/em>, 11\/24 (Sun.): persimmon seed throwing competition<br \/>\n\u2022 10:00~16:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free viewing<br \/>\n\u2022 Yanagisaka Sone no Hazenoki Namiki (Yanagisaka Wax Tree Lane)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/G8XHRWSaxNP2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yamamoto-machi Toyoda, Kurume City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:090-3071-9868\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">090-3071-9868<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurume-hotomeki.jp\/event\/?mode=detail&#038;id=400000000876\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kurume-hotomeki.jp\/event\/?mode=detail&#038;id=400000000876<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festival celebrates the beautiful 1.2 km stretch of 260 Yanagisaka wax trees in the Toyoda area. The trees were planted by the Kurume&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":127404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-127495","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\/127495","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=127495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}