{"id":164647,"date":"2024-07-25T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=164647&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:08:59","slug":"wasshoi-hyakuman-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/wasshoi-hyakuman-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival, the largest event in Kitakyushu, is a two-day summer tradition. On the first day (Aug 3), there will be a grand gathering of summer festivals from across Kitakyushu, including Tobata Gion Oyamagasa, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Kokura Gion Daiko. The second day features a yosakoi dance performance with 36 teams and a Hyakuman dance with about 3,500 participants from 51 groups filling the streets, drawing a total of 15,000 attendees. The day before the festival (Aug 2), there will be fireworks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-001.jpeg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival, \u308f\u3063\u3057\u3087\u3044\u767e\u4e07\u590f\u307e\u3064\u308a\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-001.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-001.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-001.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-001.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 8\/3 (Sat.), 8\/4 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 12:00~21:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entry<br \/>\n\u2022 Komonji Street, around Kokura Castle, Katsuyama Park, and more<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/ECbLep1m5zaFsE578\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonai, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka<\/a>, and others<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/wasshoi.info\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/wasshoi.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-002.jpeg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival, \u308f\u3063\u3057\u3087\u3044\u767e\u4e07\u590f\u307e\u3064\u308a\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-002.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-002.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-002.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fn_wasshoi-hyakuman-natsumatsuri_2024_cl-002.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival, the largest event in Kitakyushu, is a two-day summer tradition. On the first day (Aug 3), there will be a grand gathering of summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30040,"featured_media":164648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-164647","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\/164647","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\/30040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}