{"id":179883,"date":"2026-09-18T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=179883&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:48:57","slug":"fukuoka-announces-dates-and-caps-for-50-travel-discounts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-announces-dates-and-caps-for-50-travel-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka announces dates and caps for 50% travel discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Prefecture announced details of its Kyushu Fukko Oen Wari campaign on Sep. 17 to help restore tourism demand following the Kumamoto earthquake. The government-funded program will subsidize 50% of eligible accommodation and travel costs for stays from Oct. 1 through Dec. 15. Discounts are capped at 20,000 yen per person for accommodation-only bookings or one-night packages with transport, and 30,000 yen for transport-inclusive packages of two nights or more. Packages involving overnight stays in at least two prefectures have a 35,000 yen cap. Reservations will open in stages from late September and close when Fukuoka\u2019s 1,960,930,000 yen allocation is exhausted. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=18173536&#038;ymd=2026-09-17\" target=\"_blank\">KBC News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASV9K31TRV9KTIPE013M.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asahi Shimbun<\/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_tanushimaru-station-kappateria_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1234%2C926&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1234\" height=\"926\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_tanushimaru-station-kappateria_2026_WEB.jpg?w=1234&amp;ssl=1 1234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_tanushimaru-station-kappateria_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_tanushimaru-station-kappateria_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fnn_tanushimaru-station-kappateria_2026_WEB.jpg?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>Fukuoka Prefecture announced details of its Kyushu Fukko Oen Wari campaign on Sep. 17 to help restore tourism demand following the Kumamoto earthquake. The government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":179885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-179883","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","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\/179883","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=179883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}