{"id":142232,"date":"2021-09-03T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=142232&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:11:16","slug":"older-jr-beetle-ship-tested-for-service-in-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/older-jr-beetle-ship-tested-for-service-in-okinawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Older JR Beetle Ship Tested For Service in Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trial service between two islands in Okinawa has begun using a JR Kyushu Beetle ship. The 240-passenger jetfoil is running between Kume Island and Naha City. Currently, the vessel is rented from a Kagoshima company; however, Kumejima Town hopes to purchase Beetle ships. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ryukyushimpo.jp\/news\/entry-1385691.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryukyu Shimpo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-130627\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetle.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetle.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetle.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetle.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetle.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English language Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu local news summaries are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/archive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">posted here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with all the top stories in one convenient email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial service between two islands in Okinawa has begun using a JR Kyushu Beetle ship. The 240-passenger jetfoil is running between Kume Island and Naha City. Currently, the vessel is rented from a Kagoshima company&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":130627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-142232","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-okinawa-prefecture","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/142232","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=142232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}