{"id":179747,"date":"2026-09-10T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=179747&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:36:57","slug":"tap-to-pay-rail-discount-offered-for-hojoya-visitors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/tap-to-pay-rail-discount-offered-for-hojoya-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap-to-pay rail discount offered for Hojoya visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Hakozakigu\u2019s Hojoya festival can receive a 20% rail fare discount by using credit card tap-to-pay at two nearby JR stations. The offer covers Hakozaki and Yoshizuka stations during the Sept. 12\u201318 festival. Sumitomo Mitsui Card announced the service on Sept. 8. Passenger traffic during the festival typically reaches about 1.7 times normal levels, and the initiative aims to reduce ticket machine queues. The company describes it as Japan\u2019s first event-linked discount of this kind and hopes to expand the service. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.tnc.co.jp\/news\/articles\/NID2026090831973\" target=\"_blank\">TNC News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000001348.000037933.html\" target=\"_blank\">JR Kyushu<\/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_hojoya-hakozakigu-2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1240%2C928&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"928\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_hojoya-hakozakigu-2026_WEB.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_hojoya-hakozakigu-2026_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_hojoya-hakozakigu-2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C766&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_hojoya-hakozakigu-2026_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C575&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>Visitors to Hakozakigu\u2019s Hojoya festival can receive a 20% rail fare discount by using credit card tap-to-pay at two nearby JR stations. The offer covers Hakozaki and Yoshizuka&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":179749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-179747","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","location-higashi-ku","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\/179747","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=179747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}