{"id":73829,"date":"2014-07-30T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=feature&p=52799"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:48:16","slug":"august-2014-fukuoka-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/august-2014-fukuoka-now\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2014 Fukuoka Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get ready to turn up your summer in Fukuoka! There are heaps of parties and great beachside festivals coming up this month – the Daimyo Summer Party on Aug. 22, X on the Beach on Aug. 24, Isla de Salsa on Aug. 30,31, and Sunset Live on Sep. 5,6,7. The August featured restaurant is Gorm\u2019s Yakuin – where Italian pizza meets Scandanavian fusion. Stop by for a tasty pizza and stay to soak up the cool atmosphere with Danish design influences. Or if you need something a little cooler, it\u2019s time to hunt down one of Japan\u2019s favorite summer sweets, kakigori for a moment of sweet and cool relief! For the uninitiated,kakigori is a shaved ice dessert flavored with everything from syrup to condensed milk, fruits, and more. Check out our full online guide for 13 of Fukuoka\u2019s best kakigori shops. This month\u2019s model Luba from Russia shops for fruit on this issue’s cover, making us think \u201cSweet! It\u2019s summer in Fukuoka!\u201d<\/p>\n

Expand the viewer below to browse the magazine\u2026<\/p>\n

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\nSpecial feature:<\/strong> Kakigori – Summer’s Sweet Treat<\/a>
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Gourmet:<\/strong> Gorm’s Yakuin<\/a>
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City Bulletin:<\/strong> Aug. 2014<\/a>
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Fukuoka Topics:<\/strong> The Twenty-four Horsemen of Kuroda<\/a>
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Event:<\/strong> Daimyo Summer Party 2014<\/a>
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Event:<\/strong> Isla de Salsa 2014<\/a>
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Event:<\/strong> Sunset Live 2014<\/a>
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Get ready to turn up your summer in Fukuoka! There are heaps of parties and great beachside festivals coming up this month – the Daimyo Summer Party on Aug. 22, “X on the Beach” on Aug. 24, Isla de Salsa on Aug. 30, 31, and Sunset Live on Sep. 5, 6, 7. The August featured restaurant is Gorm\u2019s Yakuin – where Italian pizza meets Scandanavian fusion. Stop by for a tasty pizza and stay to soak up the cool atmosphere with Danish design influences. Or if you need something a little cooler, it\u2019s time to hunt down one of Japan\u2019s favorite summer sweets, kakigori for a moment of sweet and cool relief! For the uninitiated,kakigori is a shaved ice dessert flavored with everything from syrup to condensed milk, fruits, and more. Check out our full online guide for 13 of Fukuoka\u2019s best kakigori shops. This month\u2019s model Luba from Russia shops for fruit on this issue’s cover, making us think \u201cSweet! It\u2019s summer in Fukuoka!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"52799","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","location-fukuoka-city","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fn188-web-top-banner.jpg?fit=650%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=73829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99173,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73829\/revisions\/99173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}