{"id":108384,"date":"2018-03-14T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=108384&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:22:16","slug":"apaman-to-introduce-bike-sharing-service","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/apaman-to-introduce-bike-sharing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Apaman to Introduce Bike Sharing Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apaman will launch a bicycle sharing service called \u201cEcobike\u201d in Fukuoka from May. The real estate company will work with OpenStreet to introduce 500 bicycles to the city this summer. The companies plan to introduce 150 to 200 parking locations throughout Fukuoka and will charge cyclists \u00a560 for 15 minutes. Customers will be able to use the bikes once they have scanned a panel attached to the handlebars by using an app on their smartphone. Yahoo! recently acquired a majority stake in SoftBank\u2019s OpenStreet. This means that cyclists will be able to use their Yahoo! membership to pay for the rental service. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/kyushu\/news\/20180309-OYS1T50005.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yomiuri Shimbun<\/a>, 3\/9\/2018<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/apaman-ecobike.jpg?resize=1400%2C784\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"784\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/apaman-ecobike.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/apaman-ecobike.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/apaman-ecobike.jpg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/apaman-ecobike.jpg?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apaman will launch a bicycle sharing service called \u201cEcobike\u201d in Fukuoka from May. The real estate company will work with OpenStreet to introduce 500 bicycles to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":108385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-108384","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/108384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}