{"id":130912,"date":"2020-03-24T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=130912&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:02:45","slug":"its-official-sakura-are-blooming-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/its-official-sakura-are-blooming-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official! Sakura are Blooming in Fukuoka!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fukuoka Regional Headquarters of the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that on March 21 the flowers of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somei Yoshino<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tree, one of the most popular varieties of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sakura<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, came into bloom. While the news of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sakura<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> blooming has been recorded in four other areas of Japan, it was the first such announcement in Kyushu. The flowers are expected to peak within the next week to ten days. Source: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weathernews.jp\/s\/topics\/202003\/210065\/\">Weather News<\/a>\u00a0 Looking for places to enjoy the blossoms? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/fukuoka-sakura-and-ohanami-guide\/\">this guide<\/a> &#8211; but remember, practice responsible social distancing if you go to the more popular sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-130913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sakura fukuoka\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-2.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" 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 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> The Fukuoka Regional Headquarters of the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that on March 21 the flowers of the Somei Yoshino tree, one of the most popular varieties of sakura, came into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":130913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-130912","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/130912","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}