{"id":134499,"date":"2020-08-06T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134499&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:11:48","slug":"mayor-rules-out-flat-out-restrictions-over-obon-travel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/mayor-rules-out-flat-out-restrictions-over-obon-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Rules Out &#8220;Flat Out&#8221; Restrictions Over Obon Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fukuoka City Mayor, Soichiro Takashima, mentioned at a press conference on Aug. 4 that the city is not planning to restrict inter-regional travel during the Obon homecoming season. Instead, he encourages those who travel into and out of Fukuoka to give adequate consideration when planning their trips, such as being flexible with travel dates to avoid congestion. He also explained that over-80% of the recent COVID-19 infections occurred at eateries that serve alcoholic beverages. The city would collaborate with related business associations and groups to make sure individual shops follow the anti-coronavirus guidelines. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASN845V5CN84TIPE00H.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-134500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAYOR.jpg?resize=1024%2C545&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAYOR.jpg?resize=1024%2C545&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAYOR.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAYOR.jpg?resize=768%2C409&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAYOR.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka City Mayor, Soichiro Takashima, mentioned at a press conference on Aug. 4 that the city is not planning to restrict inter-regional travel during the Obon homecoming season. Instead, he encourages those who travel into and out of Fukuoka to give adequate consideration when planning their trips, such as being flexible with travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-134499","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","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\/134499","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=134499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}