{"id":1515,"date":"2018-09-26T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:21:46","slug":"vol17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/en\/event\/vol17\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.17\uff1aA lot of festivals in Kyoto in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto is hot and humid in summer and cold in winter.<br \/>\nThis summer had been hot days more than usual summer. A season that is easy to spend finally came, and the walking outside became pleasant.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nJust this season, from the end of September to October, a lot of festivals are held in Kyoto.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe following festivals will be held next week.<br \/>\nHow about you like to go see a festival of interest?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Gokonomiya Shinko festival<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, September 29, 2018 &#8211; Sunday, October 7 @ Gokonomiya Shrine<br \/>\nIt is a famous event to visit the shrine for worship with flower umbrellas from each town.<br \/>\n It is said that the flower umbrella tradition of the Muromachi era(from around the 14th century until the 16th century) is now conveyed to the &#8220;Hanagasa festival&#8221;.<br \/>\nHP is <a href=\"https:\/\/gokounomiya.kyoto.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Zuiki Festival<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 1 (Mon) &#8211; 5 (Fri) in 2018 @ Kitano Tenmangu<br \/>\nThanksgiving of bumper crop every year. You can see the Mikoshi decorated with food such as taro emerges.<br \/>\nHP is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitanotenmangu.or.jp\/top_en.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe photo is the main shrine in Kitano Tenmangu.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nKitano Tenmangu is famous for plums.<br \/>\nAnd remnants of the \u201cOdoi,\u201d an earthen mount of fortification built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi encircling Kyoto, can be seen here as well.<br \/>\nEven if you can not sightsee at the timing of the festival, during the season of the red maple trees, there is the Momiji-en (autumn maple garden) where you can see 350 maple trees.<br \/>\n\u201cOdoi\u201dand autumn leaves are also good points.<br \/>\nMomiji-en will be opened from late October to early December.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can see the local information of Kyoto regularly with the app.<br \/>\nAndroid app\u300cKoI Service\u300dis <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=kyoto.kyonaka_gozan.koiapp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\niPhone app\u300cKoI Service\u300dis <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/id1433855051?mt=8&#038;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyoto is hot and humid in summer and cold in winter. This summer had been hot days more than usual summer. A season that is easy to spend finally came, and the walking outside became pleasant. &nbsp; Just this season, from the end of September to October, a lot of festivals are held in Kyoto. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1513"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}