{"id":541,"date":"2009-09-24T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:24:52","slug":"mascot-character-festival-in-hikone-oct-23-25-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/mascot-character-festival-in-hikone-oct-23-25-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot Character Festival in Hikone, Oct. 23-25, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/hikone\/yurukyara\/ch205-20081025_5583.jpg\" alt=\"Sento-ku from Nara at last years Mascot festival.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sento-ku from Nara at last year&#8217;s Mascot festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The wildly successful and popular Yuru-kyara Matsuri or Mascot Character Festival will be held again in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Hikone,_Shiga\">Hikone<\/a> this year during Oct. 23-25, 2009. The main days will be on the 24th and 25th when 136 mascots from all over Japan will be walking around Yume-Kyobashi Castle Road as they did last year. But this year, there will be three times more characters than last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Wd2k0\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the first day the 23rd, all the mascots will gather at Hikone-shi Bunka Plaza for an event.\u00a0Boy, it sounds like it will be very crowded. Last year, 46,000 people came during the two days of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like this will become another major annual festival in Hikone. Thanks to Hiko-nyan&#8217;s fame and hosting of this event.<\/p>\n<p>See photos of last year&#8217;s festival:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=584\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=584<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Official site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kigurumi.shiga-saku.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kigurumi.shiga-saku.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wildly successful and popular Yuru-kyara Matsuri or Mascot Character Festival will be held again in Hikone this year during Oct. 23-25, 2009. The main days will be on the 24th and 25th when 136 mascots from all over Japan&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-hikone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}