{"id":132292,"date":"2020-05-25T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=132292&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-05-25T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T08:15:13","slug":"jr-kyushu-cancels-plans-for-additional-summer-trains","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-kyushu-cancels-plans-for-additional-summer-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Kyushu Cancels Plans for Additional Summer Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company, which operated an additional 450 <em>shinkansen<\/em> trains and 1,061 express trains between July to September in 2019, plans no such operations this year for the first time since 1999. As the nationwide shift to a \u201cnew lifestyle\u201d expects a reduced number of travelers during the upcoming summer vacation, the company points out the unlikeliness of crowds even without adding the extra summer trains. They did say their plans might change again according to the situation at the time. Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mynavi.jp\/article\/20200521-1040081\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mynavi<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrkyushu.co.jp\/news\/__icsFiles\/afieldfile\/2020\/05\/19\/200519_unkoukeikaku.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JRKyushu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JR-shinkansen-WEB-1.jpg?resize=1396%2C1047&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1396\" height=\"1047\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JR-shinkansen-WEB-1.jpg?w=1396&amp;ssl=1 1396w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JR-shinkansen-WEB-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JR-shinkansen-WEB-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JR-shinkansen-WEB-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/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 company, which operated an additional 450 shinkansen trains and 1,061 express trains between July to September in 2019, plans no such operations this year for the first time since 1999. As the nationwide shift to a \u201cnew lifestyle\u201d expects a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":132293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-132292","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/132292","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\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}