{"id":329,"date":"2009-07-01T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:47:21","slug":"smoking-banned-around-train-stations-in-otsu-from-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/smoking-banned-around-train-stations-in-otsu-from-july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking banned in Otsu train stations from July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">\u7981\u7159<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Otsu City Council passed a bill on March 18, 2009 to ban smoking in and around all major train stations in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Otsu,_Shiga\">Otsu<\/a>. The smoking ban will take effect from July 2009. The Japanese word for &#8220;No smoking&#8221; is kin&#8217;en (kanji written above).<\/p>\n<p>Smokers beware&#8211;do not smoke in and around the following train stations:<\/p>\n<p>JR stations: Otsu, Zeze, Ishiyama, Seta, and Otsukyo<\/p>\n<p>Keihan Line: Sakamoto, Miidera, Ojiyama, Hama-Otsu, and Ishiyamadera.<\/p>\n<p>The worse thing is to smoke while walking. Because people walking behind and beside you will get your breaths of poison as well. So don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">smoking will be totally banned inside the Shiga Prefectural Office (Kencho) from April 2009.<\/span> The smoker&#8217;s rooms on each floor will be removed and smokers will have to go outside the building to smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s hope all the other cities and towns in Shiga will follow suit and ban smoking at train stations and government facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u7981\u7159 The Otsu City Council passed a bill on March 18, 2009 to ban smoking in and around all major train stations in Otsu. The smoking ban will take effect from July 2009. The Japanese word for &#8220;No smoking&#8221; is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}