{"id":136690,"date":"2020-10-22T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=136690&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:45:12","slug":"daiichi-kotsu-to-operate-hovercraft-in-oita","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/daiichi-kotsu-to-operate-hovercraft-in-oita\/","title":{"rendered":"Daiichi Kotsu To Operate Hovercraft in Oita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oita Prefecture selected Daiichi Kotsu Sangyo Co., Ltd. as the candidate operator of its hovercraft. The Kitakyushu-based taxi company was the only company to apply as the operator of the new transportation service between Oita Airport and Oita City. Its proposal included developing a terminal building in the Nishi-Oita district, with cafes and shops inside. Daiichi Kotsu and Oita Prefecture aim to sign an official agreement in November and work towards opening the service in the fiscal year of 2023. <strong>Source: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/oita\/news\/20201016-OYTNT50074\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/96441\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FNN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hovercraft.jpg?resize=945%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hovercraft.jpg?w=945&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hovercraft.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hovercraft.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:JU-AIR_Junkers_JU52_HB-HOS_Oita_Hover_Ferry_dreamNo.3.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spaceaero2<\/span><\/a><\/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>Oita Prefecture selected Daiichi Kotsu Sangyo Co., Ltd. as the candidate operator of its hovercraft. The Kitakyushu-based taxi company was the only company to apply as the operator of the new transportation service between Oita Airport and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":136692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-136690","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-oita-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/136690","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}