{"id":87465,"date":"2016-06-02T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=87465&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-06-29T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:38:53","slug":"hakozakigu-shrine-ajisai-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hakozakigu-shrine-ajisai-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakozakigu Shrine Ajisai Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come enjoy thousands of beautiful <em>ajisai<\/em> (hydrangea)! This year\u2019s festival promises 3,500 <em>ajisai<\/em> of approximately a 100 different kinds &#8211; a summer scene you definitely don\u2019t want to miss! You can also get a \u00a5100 discount off your \u00a5300 ticket if you decide to visit the lily garden, which displays a total of 5,000 lilies of approximately 30 kinds. Other fun things to experience at this <em>ajisai<\/em> festival include two mini concerts; a string quartet performance held on Jun. 11 (Sat.) and 18 (Sun.) (11:00~ and 14:00~), and a flute ensemble performance on Jun. 12 (Sun.) and Jun. 19 (Sun.)  (11:00~ and 14:00~). And if you have a sweet tooth, stop by the popular local bakery \u201cFull Full\u201d, which will be selling bread and other pastries. Finally, don\u2019t forget to visit the neighboring Ekoin during the Bodaiju Festival on at 6\/5 (Sun.) at 11:00; enjoy viewing <em>bodaiju<\/em> (linden) flowers for free!<\/p>\n<p>\u2606 Fukuoka Now has FIVE PAIRS of tickets for the festival to give away! \u2606<br \/>\nTo enter the lucky draw, simply apply through <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fn-giveaway\" target=\"_blank\">this form<\/a> by 6\/9 (Thu.) at 9:00. The winners will be contacted shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ajisai-collage.jpg?resize=640%2C463\" alt=\"ajisai collage\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ajisai-collage.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ajisai-collage.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 6\/1 (Wed.) ~ 6\/30 (Thu.)<br \/>\n\u2022 9:30~17:00<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a5300 (Free for JHS and under if accompanied by guardian)<br \/>\n\u2022 Hakozakigu Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 1-22-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku<br \/>\n\u2022 092-641-7431<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakozakigu.or.jp\/news\/25.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hakozakigu.or.jp\/news\/25.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come enjoy thousands of beautiful ajisai (hydrangea)! This year\u2019s festival promises 3,500 ajisai of approximately a 100 different kinds &#8211; a summer scene you definitely don\u2019t want to miss! You can also get a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":87467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-87465","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-higashi-ku","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/87465","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\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}