For foreign tourists there is also a 2 day subway pass for 720, but these require you to show your passport at purchase and cannot be bought at the subway stations. 5 minutes walk west from Tenjin Fukuoka Station. Fukuoka is served by 3 subway [30] lines. A few of the yatai vendors speak a bit of English. One webpage does advise of a rental facility near the piers, this is false as they have ceased renting bikes as of May 2011. If you want to make a night of it, from 11PM, most have free time systems which mean nomihodai (all you can drink) and all you can sing for about 2,500, until 5AM. Nishi-Dori and Oyafuko-Dori (actually the same street, separated by Showa-Dori) contains a multitude of stores and restaurants, both mainstream and independent. Another regional product Hakata is famous for is the spicy mentaiko (), or cod roe condiment, though in actuality these days it is all imported. Since then, the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Inc. plays sounds that whales dislike using speakers to avoid further accidents. Yatai, or ramen street stalls, are plentiful (about 150 exist) from sundown around Tenjin, Nakasu, Nagahama, and Hakata Station, and present a great place to grab a bite to eat and drink while mixing with the locals. Located in the Hotel Eclair, near Nakasu-Kawabata Stn. While it isn't huge, occasionally the exhibitions are worthwhile and not overly expensive. Lots of locals and punk rock/surf style. Many carry the white clay Hakata dolls that are unique to Fukuoka. A chain of Gyoza restaurants that serves 3 types of dumplings along with Japanese-style Chinese food. Open 6PM-5AM every day except Mon 6PM-12AM. Lunch time is probably the best value for the money. Just west of the Watanabe-doori/Showa-doori intersection in front of the Fukuoka Financial Group Building. Other services are Nagoya (5,400), Okayama (4,300) and Hiroshima (2,500). Tenjin Core will provide you with a chance to see younger and more colorful fashion, ranging from frilly and cute to flashy and glam. There is also a female-only version of happy hour until 8:00 PM where cocktails are 500 for women. And once you are in the yatai it is not uncommon to have to move over on the bench to squeeze in additional customers or change your location when a group of customers leave in order to more easily accomodate new customers. The area behind the Seahawk Hotel is good. JR train tickets (set of 2 or 4) for one day travel on Limited Express trains are cheaper than individual tickets. Free Wi-Fi is also available in the whole building. Sunday through Thursday they have Happy Hour until 8PM, drinks are 300. Get out of the city. Noh theatre is also a cultural experience that some may not want to miss. There are also many clothing boutiques that cater to the hostesses of Nakasu and various restaurants. Summers are hot and humid and are characterised by sweltering heat and freak thunderstorms, caused by East Asian Monsoons. 10 minute from Hakata station by bus or taxi. Ballots collected at the center determine a monthly favorite. The terminal building has a 8 m tall "Aquarium," with 6,000 fish. If you have a bit more cash to spend and want to have a nice Japanese style lunch, the Grand Hyatt at Canal City and the Excel Hotel near Nakasu are both good. If you are visiting in November, be sure to check out the sumo matches held in Fukuoka. Near the Fukuoka PayPay Dome is a stretch of beach known as Momochihama, where visitors can enjoy a bit of swimming and sunbathing. Good for picking up souvenirs and other randomness. Meiji Academy - Japanese Language, Culture and Internships, Office No. The crowd is a good mix of foreigners and locals with music that is dance oriented. There is a passenger tunnel which connects Hakata and Gion subway stations and is useful during the frequent rains in summer and the bitter cold winds in winter, the latter of which is close to some of Fukuoka's temples and shrines. There is a Tourist Information Centre in Tenjin, found on the ground floor, in front of Mitsukoshi and under the Nishitetsu Fukuoka station. It is the red-light district of Fukuoka and the largest red-light district in Japan west of Osaka - and well worth seeing the bright neon lights on the Naka River. Many overnight bus services run into Fukuoka from other parts of the country. The stalls are set up early evening and can be found on major streets; particulary in Tenjin (near the post office), Nakasu and Nagahama-Dori. 35C (95F) readings may occasionally be observed, but anything above this mark is rare. There are approximately 150 yatai throughout the city and are worth visiting for the food and social interaction. Most are an easy train ride away. Dome. Originally built to connect to the train depot, the 8.5 km, 10 min ride uses Shinkansen equipment (290.). Drinks are usually 800 and there is 400 seating charge per person which includes a small dish of food to eat while you enjoy a well-crafted cocktail. Very cold weather is rare and temperatures very rarely drop below -5C (23F). Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2022, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Discounts for tickets purchased 21 and 14 days in advance. If you continue on Kokutai-Doro, you'll get to Nishidori, easy to find thanks to the Apple store on the corner. Wander back to Meijidori and if you can't walk anymore, grab a bus back to Tenjin (). At Mami-chan's, Mami, the proprietor is jovial and friendly, often serving a bit extra to customers and taking photos of everyone that passes through to put on her website. Tasty ramen and late night hours off the streets of Oyafukodori. Dome and situated in Momochi the Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk has over 1000 rooms and boasts 11 restaurants and four bars. 1 minute walk from the Sea Hawk-mae Bus Stop. Downtown is small and compact enough to potentially wander around on foot. The city has two centres: one in Hakata and one in Tenjin. The cities best treasures are discovered while following any of the many paths or sidewalks. BIC Camera's 8th floor, which is opposite Kego shrine, has free bicycle parking from 10AM-9PM. Offers pub favorities like fish & chips, Guiness, grilled meat, pizza, and gratin. On the third floor of the ACROS building, near Nakasu, you can find more information in English. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Walk along the river towards Hakata-za, Fukuoka's Kabuki theater. At the southern end of the Nakasu-Kawabata Shotengai is the Kushida Shrine and a walkway to Canal City. The park behind Solaria Plaza, Kego Koen, is a great place to go to experience Tenjin's youth culture and do some people watching. Happy hour 5PM-7PM. This celebration of ramen offers 8 restaurants with every style of ramen between Kyushu and Hokkaido. 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With a different feel to the commercial district of Tenjin, just to the west (past Nishi-dori) is Daimyo, an area filled with small, mostly independent shops, bars and restaurants. Near to Hakata and Fukuoka train stations and the airport. In the Tenjin area, Tenjin Chikagai (underground city) runs under Watanabe street and has many shops. The Kyushu Shinkansen line also terminates here, and links the Sanyo Shinkansen directly with Kagoshima, at the southern tip of Kyushu. The Hakata subway station, located under the JR Hakata Station, can take passengers straight to Fukuoka International Airport [31] (6 min, 250), as well as to Tenjin, the city's de facto downtown district, and other major stops. Most restaurants will do lunch sets at 1/2 or 1/3 the price of their dinner sets, but serve the same course. However, only the pass that covers Dazaifu allows you to take the Nishitetsu trains. The rooms are spacious and elegant with private balconies, stocked with a complementary mini-bar. There is also a shopping center inside the Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk with ample shopping and amenities like a beauty salon, florist, and even a convenience store. For late nights, a surcharge may be added. This part of the year is when the majority of the yearly precipitation falls. Buses around the Tenjin and Hakata area cost 100. Cut through the park behind the police box and you're sure to find it. The surrounding cities and towns make up the prefecture of Fukuoka. Provides support for finding employment in Japan. terminal to domestic). Fukuoka has a humid subtropical climate with an average year-round rainfall of 1612mm. It can be purchased at the Tenjin, Hakata, and airport bus terminals, as well as Hakata Port International Terminal information desk, subway ticket offices in Tenjin and Hakata, and tourist information centers at Hakata and Tenjin Stations. Ask at the ticket office. Fridays, Saturdays and days before public holidays require an entrance fee of 1500 for 2 drinks or an AYCD pass that is 2000 for women and 3000 for men. In Tenjin, there are 2 large Bic Camera stores near Kego Park as well as an Apple Store close by. The all-time record low is -8.2C (17.2F). (They are a perfect appetizer/side dish for ramen, incidentally.). It can be a cost effective way to travel from Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi, down to Omuta near Kumamoto Prefecture, as well as over to Karatsu, in Saga. The British ex-pat owner is very friendly. Willer Express[26] has a service from Osaka/Kyoto/Kobe from 4,800 with advance purchase tickets as cheap as 4,100. Enjoy it with pickled ginger and lots of sesame seeds. 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They have a multi-lingual menu with pictures of everything they serve. Located next to the Fukuoka Yahoo! Shochu 400, Carlsberg on tap for 500. Plenty of shopping and entertainment at Canal City. Check times and prices at the Hakata-za near Nakasu. Discover more about the small businesses partnering with Amazon and Amazons commitment to empowering them. Many Japanese university students go to Oyakukodori for less expensive, student-budget friendly fun. Fukuoka Airport (IATA: FUK) [23] is located in the east of the city, close to the city centre (domestic terminal is only two subway stops away from the JR Hakata Station - there is a ~10 min. Fubar is known for it's All You Can Drink specials and hard working owner/bartender Jody. Hakata is famous for its style of ramen, which has a very pungent smell thanks to a pork rib broth called tonkotsu (). 5 min. If you have a bit of cash (around 3500) it's a nice way to spend a hot summer evening. If you need to get the attention of the proprietor while you are in the yatai it is common to call them master or taisho(). Shirokiya, another izakaya, is decent and fairly easy to find. Being a sizable, modern city it's still not hard to get around. There is also a nice selection of fresh seafood. Three times a week Kyuetsu Ferry Co. [29] runs a service to Naoetsu in Niigata and then on to Muroran in Hokkaido. Home stays are also available. Offers short -term Japanese language course, Working holiday course, Business course, and etc. Prices comparable to those found in Tenjin. We will notify you when this product becomes available! They have an English website with online booking available. If it isn't too late (you haven't spent the entire day window shopping and being lost in Daimyo), head back to Nishidori and walk towards the Nishitetsu Grand Hotel. Plan on staying all day; for daytime shopping and eating dinner. From Hakata Station, head to the Hakata Machiya Folk Museum for a glimpse of the Hakata way of life. They have English speakers (and other languages) available. The inside of the Yatai is also very clean because they do not cook inside the Yatai. Many of the performances are free, get more information at the Rainbow Plaza (IMS building 8th floor). The proprietors are usually very friendly and many yatais have regular customers who stop by on the way home from work or for a late night snack. There is another located in Nakasu, but the Hakata one seems to be the most popular. Travel time from Tokyo to Fukuoka using these trains is 6 hours. If you don't want to stay for the whole show, or don't have so much money to spend, you can watch part of a show for about 800. Note however that to use it your starting point and destination must be within the card's usable area and you cannot use the card to go between different card areas. If the yatai sees a steady flow of customers you might want to move on after you have finished your meal in order to clear up some space for new customers but if there is some space open and you are enjoying the environment you can stay for a decent amount of time as long as you continue to order drinks. In addition to the free parking in Tenjin, street bicycle meters are another great spot to park a bike. On weekends, there is often live guitar music in the afternoon. 4th floor of the building next to Lawson 100. 1-9-18 Hakataeki-minami, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 7 Minute walk from Hakata station and close to the airport, A Ryu Kosaka designed upscale boutique resort. Some branches have a system where you put your money in a machine, push the button under the dish of your choice and give your ticket to the staff. They will be on your left just about 5-10 minutes walk past the Starbucks and McDonalds. There are many karaoke places to choose from, some with costumes you can borrow (just don't try to take them home). Save the broth, because you can order a refill of noodles (kaedama) for around 300 at many places. Most Sakura trains do travel through Fukuoka, connecting Kagoshima to Osaka with no transfers. A subway connects most of the city's main attractions. They are closed on Sundays and Mondays but Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday they are open and do not charge a cover for entry but still offer AYCD specials. Has ramen available, but is better known for the other excellent choices on their menu. Large bathrooms. Also lots of Mexican dishes available to eat. JR Kyushu's Jet Ferry the Beetle [27] hydrofoils to Busan (South Korea). Offers both long and short programs: full and part time Japanese lessons in a small group style. From late March through early April most years the area explodes with cherry blossoms and you can find big crowds going to see them.
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