{"id":142662,"date":"2021-09-30T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=142662&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:04:45","slug":"new-escalator-connects-subway-and-jr-hakata-station-chikushi-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/new-escalator-connects-subway-and-jr-hakata-station-chikushi-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Escalator Connects Subway and JR Hakata Station Chikushi Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new escalator connecting JR Hakata Station Chikushiguchi Exit and the basement area began operation on Sep. 28. Formerly, subway passengers had to carry their luggage to and climb up eighteen stairs to go to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shinkansen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exit of the station. The project cost approximately \u00a5330 million. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/fukuoka\/news\/20210928-OYTNT50180\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20210929\/k00\/00m\/040\/042000c\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-142663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hakata-sta-escalator-1024x768.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hakata-sta-escalator.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hakata-sta-escalator.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hakata-sta-escalator.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hakata-sta-escalator.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chikamaru_info\/status\/1442761767201873924\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City Subway official Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/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. 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Formerly, subway passengers had to carry their luggage to and climb up eighteen stairs to go to the shinkansen exit of the station&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":142663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-142662","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/142662","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=142662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}