{"id":173868,"date":"2025-10-24T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=173868&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:55:00","slug":"yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/yanagisaka-wax-tree-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanagisaka Wax Tree Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Framed against the serene Minou Mountains, a stunning allee stretches about 1.2 kilometers, lined with wax trees that transition into a resplendent red in the autumn. When the foliage is at its peak, this tree-lined avenue transforms into a walker\u2019s haven. These wax trees, numbering around 260, share a history of nearly 270 years, originally planted by the Kurume Domain to harvest wax for candles. Amidst this historical grove, the changing leaves of the adjacent persimmon orchards further enrich the view, painting a quintessential autumn landscape in this bountiful countryside.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1280%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2025_cl.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_yanagisaka-wax-tree_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/22 (Sat.) ~ 11\/30 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Open to pedestrians: 11\/22~24, 11\/29~30<br \/>\n\u2022 10:00~17:00<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\" 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\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/welcome-kurume.com\/events\/detail\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Framed against the serene Minou Mountains, a stunning allee stretches about 1.2 kilometers, lined with wax trees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":173869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-173868","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\/173868","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=173868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}