Fukuoka Hostel

... the campsite at times. Along with the odd hippo or two, our guides tell us this as they get into their car to go to their hostel. Now don't worry they tell us, there will be a fire and a guard will keep a look out. Remember our first encounter with wart ...

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 fast ferry to Korea but since we didn`t have our pasports we decided to get a taxi back to the hostel instead. I stayed one more day in Fukuoka with another night out the following night. This time we did manage to track down the bars thanks to ...

... has to travel through populated areas, American commuting is doomed to be slow and expensive, regardless of mag-lev technology. Fukuoka is a little warmer than Osaka and more English friendly; the streets have names and most of the signage had English ...

... when the Typhoons were so bad that there was standing water and some power outages. Anyway, transfered to a shinkansen in Kyoto to Fukuoka, Kyushu Island. Shinkansen are very quiet, efficient, and clean. The trouble is, I don:t want to fall into a ...

During the four hour journey to Fukuoka I developed a rather nasty cold and started feeling shivery. By the time I got to the hostel I had to switch to a private room and just crash. I spent 17 hours under two duvets and shivered the night through. I ...

15/07/2009 Fukuoka matsuri - Mijayima island   Fukuoka Nos levantamos a las 4 de la manana para llegar a la calle en el distrito de Hakata donde se celebraba el festival (matsuri en japones). El festival consistia en grupos de hombres cargando ...

... vending 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 ...

... Kyoto to Izumo via Himeji and Tottori (where I spend a few hours in a huge sand dune area). Today I came back to Fukuoka via Masuda, Nagato, Shimonoseki and Kokura. In Shimonoseki I stopped to have a walk through a pedestrian tunnel from Honshu Island to ...

Fukuoka will be remembered more for our hostel friends than the city itself.  Although it was as great as the rest of Japan, we spent a great deal of time with other travelers.  Three of which were fellow Canadians living in South ...

... way to the station to meet our friend Kenichi who we'd met in the Nara guesthouse. He took us through some wonderful sights of Fukuoka that we would of otherwise missed as we were only looking at the city for one afternoon. Japan surprising to us has a ...

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 (food ...

Only stopping by on our way to Yakushima, we stayed in a cute little hostel and squeezed in a delicious bowl of Char Sui Ramen noodles in a riverside foodbar. Fukuoka is famous for these places, and I can see why - the best ramen ever! ...

... , he said you won't find this deal anywhere else at midnight (lost in HK) He was BEING ridiculous 450hkd a night for a hostel!! WTF!!! We ended up paying 530HKD at the Shamrock Hotel(3-3.5* hotel) across the street. I'm still traveling in China and did ...

... in World War II as a convenient and mobile place to get food, but nowadays they are one of the main attractions of Fukuoka. We spent a long time deciphering the menus (which had no English, and no pictures), but all of the stalls were incredibly busy. We ...

... does not simply refer to a physical space but embodies all the aspects involved in robotics." The official website (http://robosquare.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/english/index.html), states that ROBOSQUARE was created with the aim of: " 1) Providing vision and ...

... involved a little back-tracking and a stop for lunch!) we set out for a wander to get some ice-cream and some beer. Fukuoka is a modern city, although we didn't have time to venture into the centre, we found a lovely park with a cherry blossom ...

... ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen and tempura - lovely.   I walked off my fat noodle lunch getting to the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum http://faam.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/eng/home.html.  there was an excellent exhibition of student work and ...

... big for japenese standards, they do love there fireworks On my second day i just chiiled out i went out to see a bit of  Fukuoka, a girl called Joanne showed me around as she had been leaving there for 4 years. so it was nice to have a guide ...