{"id":200,"date":"2015-10-22T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:23:26","slug":"aki-fes-akihabara-festival-2015-autumn-date-sunday-october-25-sunday-november-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/archives\/200","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAki-Fes\u201d (Akihabara Festival) 2015 Autumn Date: Sunday, October 25 \u2013 Sunday, November 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cAki-Fes\u201d (Akihabara Festival) 2015 Autumn<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Date: Sunday, October 25 \u2013 Sunday, November 1, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201cAki-Fes\u201d 2015 Autumn will be held in Akihabara area, Tokyo for eight days starting from Sunday, October 25 to Sunday, November 1 by Akihabara Festival Executive Committee (*\uff11). This festival aims to attract tourists from home and overseas to Akihabara, let them spend time there and revitalize the area.<\/p>\n<p>Events on a stage and lottery will be held in BelleSalle Akihabara this time. For foreign visitors, a Free Wi-Fi card will be handed out, and the expansion of tax-free coverage which started last year will be publicized.<br \/>\n\u201cHalloween party 2015 in Akihabara,\u201d \u201cKochi vs Tottori Manga Kingdom Conference 2015 in AKIBA,\u201d \u201cTAMASHII NATION 2015\u201d and \u201cSpecial sales of tax-free stores\u201d will be held at the same time, so you can enjoy the whole area of Akihabara all day as if it were a theme park.<br \/>\nTo promote visitors\u2019 spend time visiting many spots, if you shop and receive a lottery ticket at the tax-free stores and\/or about 70 stores which are the members of \u201cAkihabara Omotenashi (hospitality) Project,\u201d you can participate in Garapon lottery. You may win a prize such as Akihabara multi-coupon, the gift certificate equivalent to 1,000 yen, which can be used on smartphone and at the 47 stores in Akihabara, without drawing a blank. (The lottery venue is BelleSalle Akihabara.)<br \/>\nWe will grow and enhance \u201cAki-Fes\u201d toward 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games so that everyone from all over the world can enjoy it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\">*\uff11: Akihabara Festival Executive Committee: Akihabara Shinkokai, Akihabara Shopping District Promotion Cooperative, avex vanguard Inc., \uff2e\uff34\uff34 East (NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE EAST CORPORATION), Sumitomo Fudosan BELLESALLE Co., Ltd., BANDAI Co., Ltd., BIGWEST FRONTIER, NPO Akihabara Tourism Promotion Association (ATPA)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tt\">Overview of Aki-Fes<\/div>\n<table class=\"table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"85\">Date<\/th>\n<td width=\"1231\">12:00 &#8211; 18:00, Sunday, October 25 \u2013 Sunday, November 1, 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Venue<\/th>\n<td>Event space in BelleSalle Akihabara<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellesalle.co.jp\/room\/bs_akihabara\/access.html\" target=\"_new\">MAP<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Events<\/th>\n<td>\u30fbStage event (October 25 only)<br \/>\n\u30fbDistributing of a Free Wi-Fi card (to foreign visitors only)<br \/>\n\u30fbGarapon lottery<br \/>\n\u30fbFood and drink corner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Fee<\/th>\n<td>Free except the food and drink corner. For Garapon lottery, a lottery ticket is required and it is given when a certain amount of purchase is made.)<\/p>\n<p>Organizer: Akihabara Festival Executive Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Organizer<\/th>\n<td>Akihabara Festival Executive Committee<\/p>\n<p>Akihabara Shinkokai, Akihabara Shopping District Promotion Cooperative, avex vanguard Inc., NTT East (NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE EAST CORPORATION), Sumitomo Fudosan BELLESALLE Co., Ltd., BANDAI Co., Ltd., BIGWEST FRONTIER, NPO Akihabara Tourism Promotion Association (ATPA)\uff09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Supporting organizations<\/th>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlit.go.jp\/kankocho\/\">Japan Tourism Agency, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnto.go.jp\/\">Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcvb.or.jp\/jp\/index.html\">Tokyo Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAki-Fes\u201d (Akihabara Festival) 2015 Autumn Date: Sunday, October 25 \u2013 Sunday, November 1, 2015 \u201cAki-Fes\u201d 2015 Autumn will be held in Akihabara area, Tokyo for eight days starting from Sunday, October 25 to Sunday, November 1 by Akihabara Festival Executive Committee (*\uff11). This festival aims to attract tourists from home and overseas to Akihabara, let them spend time there and revitalize the area. Events on a stage and lottery will be held in BelleSalle Akihabara this time. For foreign visitors, a Free Wi-Fi card will be handed out, and the expansion of tax-free coverage which started last year will be publicized. \u201cHalloween party 2015 in Akihabara,\u201d \u201cKochi vs Tottori Manga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.akihabara.kokosil.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}