{"id":166497,"date":"2024-10-28T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T04:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=166497&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T04:27:53","slug":"yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanagisaka Wax Tree Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Mino Mountain Range as a backdrop, a 1.2-kilometer stretch of wax trees, beautifully tinged red, lines the road. During peak autumn foliage, this avenue becomes pedestrian-only, with shops and food trucks offering local produce and goods. Originally planted 270 years ago by the Kurume Domain as a source of wax for lanterns, around 260 wax trees now create a scenic display. Combined with the surrounding persimmon orchards, this picturesque rural landscape showcases the beauty of autumn.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2023_cl.jpg?resize=900%2C675&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Yanagisaka Wax Tree Festival, \u67f3\u5742\u30cf\u30bc\u796d\u308a\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-157882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2023_cl.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2023_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2023_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/16 (Sat.) ~ 11\/24 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Open to pedestrians: 11\/16~17, 11\/23~24<br \/>\n\u2022 10:00~16:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free viewing<br \/>\n\u2022 Yanagisaka Sone no Hazenamiki (Yanagisaka Wax Tree Lane)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/ZMKxTk3BF8DcrQ9h6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamamoto-machi, Toyoda, Kurume City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/welcome-kurume.com\/events\/detail\/6b34b18d-0265-4e52-83fd-481d975104ad\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/welcome-kurume.com\/events\/detail\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Mino Mountain Range as a backdrop, a 1.2-kilometer stretch of wax trees, beautifully tinged red, lines the road. During peak autumn foliage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":157882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-166497","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\/166497","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}