{"id":869,"date":"2018-05-17T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2018-05-17T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:15:09","slug":"mascots-take-over-the-kanagawa-prefectural-government-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/mascots-take-over-the-kanagawa-prefectural-government-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascots Take Over the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kobaton, Kanagawa Kintaro, and Chiba-kun<\/p><\/div>\n

Every May, during Japan’s “Golden Week” holiday, the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office in Yokohama opens to the public for a few days. The picturesque old brick building (nicknamed “King”) attracts a lot of tourists and, for the past few years, a ton of regional mascots. I went along (to be honest, to see the mascots, not the building), and I took lots of photos.<\/p>\n

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Atsugi City’s Ayukoro-chan, inside the “King” building.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nakamaru, the mascot of Nakai Town, Kanagawa<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yokohama’s electricity mascot, Damuereki-kun and Miura Tuna Nanosuke of Miura Chamber of Commerce<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ebinya from Ebina City, and Sukarin, from Yokosuka City.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oiso Town mascots, Isobee and Aomo, are birds with rolling ocean waves for hair.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hakogeo, the mascot of Hakone Geopark<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peririn, from Yokosuka, based on Commodore Perry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kanyao the cat is the mascot for Kanagawa Prefectural Citizen’s Bureau<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zamarin, of Zama City, and Yamaton, of Yamato City<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kanabou<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kururin, mascot of Isehara City<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chiba-kun takes a bow<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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Every May, during Japan’s “Golden Week” holiday, the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office in Yokohama opens to the public for a few days. The picturesque old brick building (nicknamed “King”) attracts a lot of tourists and, for the past few years, a ton of regional mascots. I went along (to be honest, to see the mascots, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,2,37],"tags":[4,5,38],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiba-kun","category-japan","category-mascots","category-yokohama","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}