{"id":134663,"date":"2020-08-12T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=134663&lang=en"},"modified":"2020-08-12T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:45:52","slug":"reduced-obon-holiday-traffic-congestion-reported","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/reduced-obon-holiday-traffic-congestion-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Obon Holiday Traffic Congestion Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike the previous years, the customary traffic jams at the start of the nation\u2019s <\/span>obon<\/span><\/i> holidays were absent as of the evening of August 8. Also, airline companies report 40% or lower booking rates for the holidays, resulting in no congestion at Fukuoka Airport. As of August 10, the cumulative total of the virus infection reaches 3,084. Between August 9 and August 10, the prefecture announced 181 more cases of the virus infection, including 104 cases found in Fukuoka City and 25 in Kitakyushu City. Sources: <\/span>NHK<\/span><\/a> \/ <\/span>NHK<\/span><\/a> \/ <\/span>TNC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Unlike the previous years, the customary traffic jams at the start of the nation\u2019s obon holidays were absent as of the evening of August 8. Also, airline companies report 40% or lower booking rates for the holidays, resulting in no congestion at Fukuoka Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-134663","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/134663","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=134663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}