{"id":185067,"date":"2026-07-03T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e7%ac%ac79%e5%9b%9e%e5%a1%a9%e7%ab%88%e3%81%bf%e3%81%aa%e3%81%a8%e7%a5%ad%ef%bc%88%e7%a5%9e%e8%bc%bf%e6%b5%b7%e4%b8%8a%e6%b8%a1%e5%be%a1%ef%bc%89\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:28:13","slug":"%e7%ac%ac79%e5%9b%9e%e5%a1%a9%e7%ab%88%e3%81%bf%e3%81%aa%e3%81%a8%e7%a5%ad%ef%bc%88%e7%a5%9e%e8%bc%bf%e6%b5%b7%e4%b8%8a%e6%b8%a1%e5%be%a1%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/185067\/","title":{"rendered":"The 77th Shiotomono Minato Festival (Kamikoshi Marine Wataru)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oss.allway-japan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/EV_26002881_12021.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The information provided reflects the details available at the time of the survey.<br \/>Please note that facility details may change due to the facility\u2019s circumstances, so please check for the latest information before visiting.\nThis content has been translated using machine translation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Information provided by: JTB Publishing<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This content uses automatic translation services. Automatic translations may not always be accurate.<br \/>Please note that the translated content may differ from the original meaning. We ask for your understanding when using this content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival, which began in Showa 23 (1948), is held every year on \"Marine Day\" to pray for maritime safety and a good catch. Along with the Gion Festival at Itsukushima Shrine and the Kifune Matsuri at Kifune Shrine, it is renowned as one of Japan's three major boat festivals. During the main festival, the two splendid ceremonial boats of Shiogama Shrine, accompanied by about 70 accompanying vessels, parade through Matsushima Bay, one of Japan's three scenic views, in a magnificent mikoshi maritime procession. There are also the mikoshi procession from Shiwahiko Shrine, the Yoshiko Shiogama Parade, and the performance of \"Shiogama Jinku,\" and a fireworks festival is held at Shiogama Port on the eve of the festival.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180577,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185067","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/185067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/185067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}