{"id":143671,"date":"2021-12-03T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=143671&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:40:01","slug":"hatsumode-services-available-earlier-to-reduce-congestion-at-shrines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hatsumode-services-available-earlier-to-reduce-congestion-at-shrines\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatsumode Services Available Earlier To Reduce Congestion at Shrines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning on Dec. 1, Hakozaki-gu Shrine in Fukuoka City welcomes visitors of \u2018saisaki-mode,\u2019 the earlier visits, to wish good luck in 2022. Good luck charms and other items to celebrate the new year are already available, as well as new-year prayers by the shrine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guji<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (priest.) New year items and some related services will be available until late February to reduce congestion.<\/span> <b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20211201\/5010014064.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK 1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20211201\/5010014060.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK 2<\/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-143672\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_ebisu-shrine_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_ebisu-shrine_2021_WEB.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_ebisu-shrine_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_ebisu-shrine_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_ebisu-shrine_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/span><\/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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Good luck charms and other items to celebrate the new year are already available, as well as new-year prayers by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":143672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-143671","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/143671","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=143671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}