{"id":74507,"date":"2015-10-23T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=67159"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:43:27","slug":"foreigner-driving-stickers-appearing-in-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/foreigner-driving-stickers-appearing-in-okinawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigner Driving Stickers Appearing in Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of foreign visitors renting cars is on the rise. In fiscal 2014, the number of car rentals around Fukuoka Airport jumped 250% to 6,572. Meanwhile, the Kyushu District Transportation Bureau offers a \u00a52,500 2-day \u201call-you-can-drive\u201d expressway pass. In the three-month period of last October to December, about 2,000 foreign tourists used the service, and the bureau expects this year\u2019s numbers to outstrip last year\u2019s. In Okinawa, a spate of minor accidents has led car rental shops to put \u201cForeigner Driving\u201d stickers on cars rented to foreign tourists.\u201cI keep an eye out for rental cars with <em>wa<\/em> license plates now,\u201d admits a local taxi driver, referring to the rental car license plates whose numbers are prefaced by the hiragana character <em>wa<\/em> (\u308f). Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 10\/22<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okinawasticker.jpg?resize=487%2C491\" alt=\"okinawasticker\" width=\"487\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okinawasticker.jpg?w=487&amp;ssl=1 487w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okinawasticker.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okinawasticker.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of foreign visitors renting cars is on the rise. In fiscal 2014, the number of car rentals around Fukuoka Airport jumped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":67160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-74507","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/74507","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\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}