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Ten Years Later..., Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Ten Years Later...
May 8, 2008 (30 photos)

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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Arriving in Kyushu..., Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Arriving in Kyushu...
Apr 11, 2007 (28 photos)

... 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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Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Fukuoka
Sep 1, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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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One city, two names, Hakata, Japan travel blog
One city, two names
Oct 18, 2003

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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Japan photo special 3, Fukuoka (!), Japan travel blog
Japan photo special 3
Sep 5, 2004 (11 photos)

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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Mission(s) Accomplished, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Mission(s) Accomplished
Nov 21, 2007 (28 photos)

... 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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Getting some training, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Getting some training
Sep 8, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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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I predict a riot, Kasangati, Uganda travel blog
I predict a riot
Sep 12, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by amywanless
Will my knees ever forgive me?, Kasangati, Uganda travel blog
Will my knees ever forgive me?
Aug 27, 2009

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! ...

A travel blog entry by amywanless
Part 3, Hiroshima and Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Part 3
Aug 7, 2006 (10 photos)

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 ...

A travel blog entry by mattandnicole
Maccu Piccu at tast, Maccu Piccu, Peru travel blog
Maccu Piccu at tast
Aug 3, 2009 (5 photos)

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 ...

A travel blog entry by lynneanddave
Baseball, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Baseball
Mar 25, 2006

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by ashermj
So near and yet so far ... struggling Into Bolivia, Copacobana, Bolivia travel blog
So near and yet so far ... struggling Into Bolivia
Jul 26, 2009

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?

A travel blog entry by lynneanddave
Historic settlement, St Augustine , United States travel blog
Historic settlement
Aug 10, 2009

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..

A travel blog entry by leeroy_jenkins
Uganda Dance Off, Iganga, Uganda travel blog
Uganda Dance Off
Aug 1, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by mike_bright
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Fukuoka
Jul 21, 2007

Fukuoka

A travel blog entry by berndendaphne
News from Keiai, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
News from Keiai
May 10, 2008 (14 photos)

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 ...

A travel blog entry by sbowling99
NICK: F*k-u-oka, Fukuoka/Hakata, Japan travel blog
NICK: F*k-u-oka
Aug 13, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by niknash
Arrival in Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Arrival in Fukuoka, Japan
May 4, 2008

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 ...

A travel blog entry by lucbergeron86
Incy Wincy Sweeping Machine, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Incy Wincy Sweeping Machine
Mar 24, 2006

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, ...

A travel blog entry by ashermj
Namaste India,  Delhi, India travel blog
Namaste India
Sep 17, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by lonesomegeorge
Day 1 - So it begins, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Day 1 - So it begins
Dec 17, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by 1061kun
A Trip To Nm USA, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, United States travel blog
A Trip To Nm USA
Jul 27, 2009

i went their for 2 days to stayed as a vacation

A travel blog entry by ethan3
Back in the Congo hood, Pointe-Noire, Congo travel blog
Back in the Congo hood
Aug 26, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by pointenoirexpat
Boats, trains, and aeroplanes.  Nope.  Just trains, Hakata, Japan travel blog
Boats, trains, and aeroplanes. Nope. Just trains
Jul 13, 2009 (12 photos)

... 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 travel blog entry by allmystrings
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan travel blog
Fukuoka
Apr 16, 2007 (18 photos)

... 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. ...

A travel blog entry by polomuiriu
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Won't You Take Me to Retro Town?
Oct 20, 2009

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by rbfromnj
Kyushu
Kyushu's bustling metropolis
Sep 19, 2005 (22 photos)

... . 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 ...

A travel blog entry by xerius
Thank god for Thermals, Le Paz, Bolivia travel blog
Thank god for Thermals
Jul 28, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by lynneanddave
Rare jongens die Jappaners, Fukuoka/Hakata, Japan travel blog
Rare jongens die Jappaners
Apr 2, 2006

... 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, ...

A travel blog entry by markenhylda