{"id":179535,"date":"2026-09-01T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=179535&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:20:34","slug":"kyushu-recovery-discounts-start-in-october","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-recovery-discounts-start-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu Recovery Discounts Start in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national government will launch the Kyushu Fukko Oen Wari travel-support program across all seven Kyushu prefectures in October. Accommodation and travel prices will be discounted by 60% in Kumamoto and Kagoshima and by 50% in Fukuoka and the other prefectures. The government has allocated about 15.1 billion yen for the program. Kumamoto had recorded more than 140,000 accommodation cancellations worth over 2 billion yen by August 6, while the other six prefectures reported about 174,000 cancellations following the earthquake. Each prefecture will announce its own booking start date and eligible travel period. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/1103460\" target=\"_blank\">FNN News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.web.nhk\/newsweb\/na\/nb-5010035096\" target=\"_blank\">NHK Fukuoka<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_kumamoto-station_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_kumamoto-station_2026_WEB.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_kumamoto-station_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_kumamoto-station_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_kumamoto-station_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national government will launch the Kyushu Fukko Oen Wari travel-support program across all seven Kyushu prefectures in October. Accommodation and travel prices will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":179536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-179535","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-general","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/179535","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\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}