{"id":25099,"date":"2012-06-28T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=25099"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T03:25:38","slug":"decade-long-decline-for-kyushu-long-distance-ferry-passengers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/decade-long-decline-for-kyushu-long-distance-ferry-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Decade-Long Decline for Kyushu Long-Distance Ferry Passengers<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The Kyushu Transport Bureau released the results of its survey for 2011 of the long-distance ferries operated by five companies on eight routes between Kyushu and the Kansai and Tokyo areas.  The number of passengers declined by 1.4% from the previous year to 1.459 million, the 10th straight year-on-year drop. The bureau attributes the decline to the discount fares offered on expressways during vacation days and the falloff in travel after the Tohoku disaster.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The Kyushu Transport Bureau released the results of its survey for 2011 of the long-distance ferries operated by five companies on eight routes between Kyushu and the Kansai and Tokyo areas.  The number of passengers declined by 1.4% from the previous year to 1.459 million, the 10th straight year-on-year drop. The bureau attributes the decline to the discount fares offered on expressways during vacation days and the falloff in travel after the Tohoku disaster.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-25099","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/25099","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}