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Golden Week 2017 Event

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In celebration of Japans Golden Week , Niantic will be luring Japanese Trainers to McDonald’s’s Golden arches for a Pokémon GO McDonald’s Lure Event! Like with the Lapras and  Snorlax  events, Japan is receiving another region exclusive event. This is not a huge surprise since Pokémons roots are from Japan. When Golden Week 2017 Start Starts:  April 29th 2017 at 6:00. Ends:  May 7th 2017 at 24:00.   What Japan has over 2,500 PokéStops. During the event, Lure Modules will be triggered at McDonald's restaurants from 6:00 to 24:00.   History There has been an asset with the McDonald's logo since the initial field test APK [0.13.5] was issued on March 16.   After the field test, Pokémon GO became online in Japan on July 16 with APK [0.31.0]. With this launch, the collaboration with McDonald's was made public, and 2,900 McDonald's locations were converted into PokéStops, while 400 were converted into Gyms. According to  Bloomberg , this ...