{"id":96659,"date":"2017-04-05T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T04:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=96659&lang=en"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:14:01","slug":"60th-kurume-tsutsuji-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/60th-kurume-tsutsuji-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"60th Kurume Tsutsuji Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kurume Tsutsuji (azalea) Festival, now in its 60th year, is one of the biggest plant festivals in Japan. As well as azalea viewing (over 2,000 azalea on show!) there will be flower, plant and bonsai markets, a model garden and bonsai exhibitions. On the weekend, there will be a gardening workshop, a charity auction, lectures and several other events. Buy Kurume food and drink too, such as bento and sake! From late April, there will also be a Hydrangea exhibition.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 4\/5 (Wed.) ~ 5\/5 (Fri. Hol.)
\n\u2022 9:00~17:00
\n\u2022 4\/8 (Sat.), 4\/22 (Sat.): 11:00~, 13:30~, 14:30~: aroma and herb soap making workshop (\u00a51,000; 10 people\/session, book at Fukuoka Pref. Ryokuka Center: 0943-72-1193)
\n\u2022 4\/23 (Sun.): 11:00~, 14:00~: mini bonsai lecture (Free)
\n\u2022 4\/29 (Sat., Hol.): 11:00~, 14:00~: orchid transplanting lecture (Free)
\n\u2022 5\/3 (Wed., Hol.): 11:00~, 14:00~: Mother\u2019s Day group planting lecture (\u00a51,000; 10 people\/session, first come, first served)
\n\u2022 Free
\n\u2022 Kurume Hyakunen Park
\n\u2022 2432-1 Kurume Hyakunen Park, Kurume City
\n\u2022 0942-47-1875<\/a> (during event period: 0942-33-8316<\/a>)
\n\u2022 http:\/\/www.kurume-hotomeki.jp\/en\/event\/?mode=detail&id=400000000253<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kurume Tsutsuji (azalea) Festival, now in its 60th year, is one of the biggest plant festivals in Japan. As well as azalea viewing (over 2,000 azalea on show!) there will be flower, plant and bonsai markets, a model garden and bonsai exhibitions. On the weekend, there will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5112],"class_list":["post-96659","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-festival","location-kurume","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/96659","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}