Takakura Fukuoka
2-7-21 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa, 810-0004, Japan
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From Hakata to Busan a trip by ferry.
... and i could not really be bothered so i chose to try and sleep. That did not really work as there were these two korean ladies who were fighting over there mountains of boxes of food.
So after finally getting on the ferry and getting the student discount even though i forgot my student i.d, i've found that they tend to accept my student edge card after a while if i just act like the dumb tourist. So it was off for the next six hours to Busan ...
Day 13 Fukuoka
... Christmas songs play. I love it, being a Christmasholic! On the way through town Kenichi insisted on buying us an umbrella as it has just started to rain, we walked through 'Canal City' a large shopping arcade on the waterside with a canal flowing through it. Ken showed us Japanese style BBQ's by the waterside, in large tents where you can sit and eat fresh food, however as there was nothing vegetarian he took us to a ...
The Truffle Chuffle, again and again and...
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 explore the island and I am very lucky to have found a couchsurfer in every city I am visiting.
Firstly, a big thank you to Bev and Barrie from Canada, Aunt and Uncle to my sister in law ...
Busan, South Korea to Fukuoka, Japan
... for the Hakata Port, Fukuoka, Japan to open at 7am. Arriving in Hakata, we got on a bus to the train station. Our first hurdle was trying to get money out of an ATM. We didn't change any coinage before leaving. The great thing about Korea is how much English is worked into their language over the last 50 years of US military living there. I took for granted that most ATMs in Korea have an English option. Not so in Japan. A Japanese girl who ...



