Fukuoka, Japan Travel Blogs

Ten years later, we return to the place where our life as we know it began.  Fukuoka.  The city where we became engaged, and where our first baby was born.   It was like time travel back to our salad days.

A travel blog entry by sutiramisu
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... was able to stroll around in a t-shirt the next day, beginning with a trip to the Momochi district to see the Fukuoka Tower. It seems that every city in Japan has a tower of some sort, and I usually get roped into paying to go up it, but on this occasion I ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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... machines everywhere (not filled with crap). In Japan, there's always a surprise around the corner! We flew from Beijing to Fukuoka in western Japan. From here we will make our way to Tokyo. We collected our seven day rail passes which we applied for ...

A travel blog entry by dacraic
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Hakata - also known as the harder to pronounce Fukuoka, it is home to the rather cool Canal City. Ok so Canal City is just a shopping centre, but it has a canal! Obviously we went to Canal city but really, Hakata is just a city with no real charms. We ...

A travel blog entry by itsem
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Some more random photos from mad Japan... Toilet culture Fragile Earth - the aftermath of a volcanic erruption Tea-time Matsumoto Castle Another day on Lake Toya Crossing the Iya Valley ...

A travel blog entry by ad_n_caz
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... as it gives the whole room that bale-of-hay smell. We stayed in ryokan all 3 of the nights we had in Japan (2 nights in Kyoto, 1 night in Fukuoka) and while the ryokan in Kyoto wasn't anything to write home about the one in Fukuoka was a gem. See the ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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... Tokyo would have you believe. Around Hiroshima the houses were pretty sparse and there was a lot of greenery. Once at Fukuoka Station (confusingly called Hakata) we set about trying to find somewhere to sleep for the night. to make things easier we ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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Hi guys, Another update! No massage last week...TIA after all and so I shall have to go some other time...What a week though..it started off with some farm work; shoveling bull shit into holes for cabbage..glamorous. The children celebrated the ...

Hey again, Another week in paradise. For those of you who are interested my number out here is 0784596708 and i think the code is +256 - always good to get a text or two from you all back at home! Jinja and White water rafting were AMAZING! ...

DAY 12: Himeji - > Hiroshima Himeji was fantastic; we hired bikes and rode to the castle the town is famous for. The castle was great, a princess's dream with bell tower 4, stories, trap doors, secret passages, weapons stores and temple. That ...

Up early to catch the bus and found we had a great guide to take us around. The site is just like you see the pictures on the telly, really gorgeous, ddnt know how they could have built something so huge in such a remote place right up in the ...

... hand movement and clapping, all except us. Japan had just won the baseball world cup, several of the Japanese players played for Fukuoka Hawks so it was a big game. I must admit I wasn't completely familiar with all the rules of baseball so I was just ...

Guess who had lost her visa for Peru and had to get told off , do an oath to the president and get another via paying 5 dollars for the priviledge - just to be able to leave Peru ...........so fussy and so many rules do they not cater fro scatty tourists?

St Augustine was a quiet affair, a place with a history in both Spanish & English shipping, home to many pirates & rumoured to have many haunted ghost houses..

So woke up this morning with a little bit of a hangover from partying at the camp site. Some girls that I had partyed with the night before offered for me to visit the orphanage that the worked at in a small town on the outskirts of Jinja. I was ...

Fukuoka

When we arrived at Keiai (elementary), we were greeted by teachers and a bunch of screaming kids (they were screaming "Aloha"). It's so cool that the school's so clean. They give you slippers to wear before you go in. Chris here, I enjoyed all the ...

... were all sold out. Luckily, we caught the next ferry and reached Kokura at 5am. We then caught our connecting train to Hakata/Fukuoka (yes, I know it looks like a certain expletive and the word "oka") and got there at 6:30. After that, we walked the ...

Hi All, This morning we got up, had breakfast with Jessica and Adam and then Luc and I took an express ferry from Busan to Fukuoka, Japan. The ferry was really neat as it runs on jet turbines, like planes. It glides on top of the water--it seems as ...

We had a lot of organisation to do today. We wanted tickets for the Sumo, train tickets for travel to Karashima national park, accommodation, and to work out the best time to activate our JR rail passes. I found out there was a sumo tournament in Tokyo, ...

Peeking out my plane window at the twinkling lights of Delhi I felt a strange rush of emotion. In one of those rare moments when you're not even aware of your own happiness I felt a twinge of pain in my cheeks and realised that the width of my grin ...

... also had only 4 cars compared to 16 on the Nozomi Shinkansen. After a short trip of a hour, I arrived at Hakata station in Fukuoka city and Kyushu. I went directly to my ryokan to check in and then went out to explore the city before it got too dark. I ...

i went their for 2 days to stayed as a vacation

Our arrival was immediately Congolese -- we'd only received two landing cards on the plane, but the not-so-helpful gentleman in the glass booth at the airport needed four. Then two baggage cart entrepeneurs descended upon us, and it turned out we needed ...

... by rice paddies that edge right up along the mountains. Unlike the rolling, undulating hills of our dear Tennessee, mountains in Japan have no foothills, and appear to shoot directly out of the ground without warning.  They are verdant and beautiful, ...

... a kind of pork noodle soup which is really good and I was quite happy to sample that in it`s home town. Afte seeing Fukuoka, the following day I went on a day trip to Nagasaki with Ross and Ray. I`ve written about this in a separate blog entry. ...

... an important role in the banana import market, which anyone who has seen melons selling for $10 to $50 in Japan's supermarkets will appreciate.  Mojiko also became an important terminal for both the railroad and cruise ships.  So ...

... . The notable main activity for today was a daytrip out to Dazaifu, a small temple town in the foothills just beyond Fukuoka's southern outskirts. Nearly every Japanese person that goes to the place is there for one reason alone: the revered shrine of ...

All ideas of walking from the bus station to the hotel went out tof the window when we arrived in to one of the higest and hilliest Cites in the world but hey after a day or too we have really toned calf muscles just a shame they are all wrapped up in ...

... de straten die nu nog steeds in ons hoofd zit. In alle steden hetzelfde deuntje en er zijn best veel oversteekplaatsen in Japan. Trouwens, ook als de deuren van de treinen bijna dicht gaan klinkt er muziek en beginnen alle Japanners te rennen. Althans, ...