{"id":140452,"date":"2021-05-07T19:46:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140452&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:46:59","slug":"travel-in-fukuoka-prefecture-during-golden-week-went-up","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/travel-in-fukuoka-prefecture-during-golden-week-went-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel in Fukuoka Prefecture During Golden Week Went Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More people participated in tourism activities in Fukuoka during the 2021 Golden Week holidays, compared to the previous year. JR Kyushu announced on May 6 that the number of passengers on its trains and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shinkansen <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between Apr. 28 ~ May 5 was seven times larger than last year. Starflyer also reported around a 760% increase in the number of passengers on its flights between Apr. 29 ~ May 5. However, these standards remain as low as around 30% of the pre-coronavirus times. Also, an NHK research revealed that the number of people who visited the neighboring area of JR Hakata Station on May 5 surpassed 700% of that on the same day in 2020. The number of people who visited Fukuoka from Tokyo and Osaka during the holidays also doubled from last year (visitors from Tokyo: +153%\/ from Osaka: +114%.) The average number of visitors to places such as JR Hakata Station, Fukuoka Airport, Tenjin Station grew to 2~3 times from last year. At the same time, growths were relatively moderate at other tourist spots, including Nakasu and Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210506\/5010011703.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/itoshima-wheat.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/itoshima-wheat.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/itoshima-wheat.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/itoshima-wheat.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/itoshima-wheat.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people participated in tourism activities in Fukuoka during the 2021 Golden Week holidays, compared to the previous year. JR Kyushu announced on May 6 that the number of passengers on its trains and shinkansen between Apr. 28 ~ May 5 was seven times larger than last year. Starflyer also reported around a 760% increase in the number of passengers on its flights between Apr. 29 ~ May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":140453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-140452","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140452","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=140452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}