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Fukuoka Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fukuoka, Japan
Ten Years Later...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Fukuoka
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Japan photo special 3
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Mission(s) Accomplished
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
One city, two names
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Arriving in Kyushu...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
North.
This is a top pick! Just across the water from the main island of Honshu, you can see Honshu and its just a bridge away. Albeit a long bridge. KitaKyushu is home to the theme park "Space world" which was heavily advertised and almost too hard to resist, but resist we ...
The Truffle Chuffle, again and again and...
This is a top pick! Fukuoka, Japan - Japan, in my mind, has always been an unknown entity. The majority of what I know stems from the film Lost in Translation and other TV characters (Hiro off Heroes, Battle Royale, cartoon animation etc). I've given myself ten days to ...
Getting some training
This is a top pick! ... that 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 ...
I predict a riot
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 ...
Will my knees ever forgive me?
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! ...
Part 3
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 ...
Grand Sumo Tournament!
We spent the whole day at the Grand Sumo Tournament that is being held these days in Fukuoka! It was only the 5th out of 15 days of competition, so the excitement for the fights is still not that high, but for us it was an amazing cultural experience! ...
We saw baby turtles hatching!!!!
Early the next morning we said thank you to our CS Katherine and left to get the early, slow, cheap ferry to Yakushima island - very excited! (The slow ferry is the Yakushima-Maru which takes four hours, leaves from the south pier, and costs ...
Maccu Piccu at tast
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 ...
Baseball
... 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 ...
Apr 16, 2010
So near and yet so far ... struggling Into Bolivia
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 ...
Historic settlement
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 ...
Uganda Dance Off
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 ...
News from Keiai
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 ...
NICK: F*k-u-oka
... 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 ...
Day 10
Day 10, Thu 13 Nov: Morning zodiac cruise and landing at Cooper Bay. This was challenging for the staff as the small beach was home to many male furry's, with whom they battled a path up to the Macaroni Peng rookery. Quite similar to the ...
Arrival in Fukuoka, Japan
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 ...
Incy Wincy Sweeping Machine
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, ...
Hmm, this hostel sounds good...
Beth books our hostel before reading the description of the surrounding area in the Lonely Planet : "Crossed by a number of bridges, the smelly Naka-gawa and the now-indiscernible island of Nakasu - a mish-mash of strip clubs, hostess bars and yatai ...
Day 1 - So it begins
... ;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. ...
Back in the Congo hood
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 ...
Day-Trip to Kyoto
On the 30th, we got up really early to catch the Shinkansen to Kyoto, and that's where we spent the entire day. The ride was much more enjoyable for me that time around, as my ear infection was completely gone by that point. It was a semi-long trip - 3 ...