{"id":36814,"date":"2025-04-29T21:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e8%8d%89%e6%b4%a5%e6%b8%a9%e6%b3%89%e6%84%9f%e8%ac%9d%e7%a5%ad\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:21:26","slug":"%e8%8d%89%e6%b4%a5%e6%b8%a9%e6%b3%89%e6%84%9f%e8%ac%9d%e7%a5%ad","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/36814\/","title":{"rendered":"Kusatsu Onsen Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oss.allway-japan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EV_20002811_11192.jpg\"\/><br \/>Kusatsu Hot Springs Tourism Association<\/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 \"Usuyu [Usuyu] festival\", which began in the sense of thanking the hot springs, is performed annually as \"Kusatsu Onsen Thanksgiving\" due to the legend that bathing on the day of the Ox (around 2:00 a.m.) is a year-long disaster. It is centered on ceremonies such as the \"Kensh\u014d Oikumi no Yai\" and \"Kensh\u014d no Yai no Yai\", which are performed by the goddess and the priestess selected from among the townspeople and the white-cho. Sources such as the Shiraneyama Yukama, the west river, and the water field are pumped together in a single tub, and then the water is distributed to each district bathhouse to pray for the disease-free disaster of the visitors. * Partially private in 2024. Image courtesy: Kusatsu Onsen Tourism Association<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32188,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36814","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\/36814","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\/36814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}