{"id":813803,"date":"2026-10-25T21:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813803\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:30:22","slug":"south-korean-golfers-flock-to-small-japanese-town-for-deals-at-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813803\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean golfers flock to small Japanese town for deals at resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20261014N golf course aerial\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Uguisu no Mori Golf Club and Hotel Bato has welcomed a surge in golfers from South Korea. (Nakagawa, Tochigi prefecture)<\/p>\n<p>YUTARO YOKOYAMA<\/p>\n<p>October 25, 2026 10:45 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">UTSUNOMIYA, Japan &#8212; A small Japanese town surrounded by farmland two hours from central Tokyo went little noticed by foreign tourists until a few years ago when a golf resort helped boost such overnight stays by 12 times in just two years &#8212; with most visitors coming from South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uguisu no Mori Golf Club and Hotel Bato has welcomed a surge in golfers from South Korea. (Nakagawa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[979,139274,5904,143866,47431,158819,127948,19290,11332,101,46075,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-deals","tag-flock","tag-golf","tag-golfers","tag-japanese","tag-korean","tag-resort","tag-small","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-town","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}