Hotel New Simple Fukuoka

The New Simple Hotel - the most luxurious place that we have stayed but only because we didn't have to sleep on the floor. The city really comes alive at night when all of the food stalls set up along the canals. We splashed out and had a ramen and a ...

... . 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 ...

... as both the vegetable rice dish and the strange potato and egg pizza/quiche/sanddwich hybrid were both very tasty and an absolute bargain. Fukuoka is more of an eating/drinking town - the home town of the ramen concept no less - so is a little short on ...