Hidden Gems Across Japan
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Hakata Gion Machiya Folk Museum
The Hakata Machiya Folk Museum occupies three restored machiya (merchant townhouses) from the early 20th century in the…
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Fukuoka's position as the closest major Japanese city to continental Asia has shaped its cultural identity, and the Asia…
Ohori Park
Ohori Park was created in 1929 when the former outer moat of Fukuoka Castle was converted into a public lakeside park —…
Raizan Sennyoji Temple
On the upper slopes of Mt. Raizan, behind a cedar forest that filters almost all direct sunlight, Sennyoji Temple has be…
Mizuma Temple
Perched on a 221-meter hilltop above the Chikugo River plain, Mizuma-dera (水分寺) offers an extraordinary panoramic view t…
Tochoji Temple
Tochoji, founded in 806 by the monk Kukai (Kobo Daishi) on his return from Tang Dynasty China, is Fukuoka's oldest Shing…
Kushida Shrine
Kushida Shrine, tucked behind the Hakata Station shopping district, is the spiritual center of Hakata's merchant culture…
Keya Otehon Sea Cave
On the western tip of Itoshima Peninsula, the Genkai Sea has been cutting into basalt cliffs for millennia, producing a…
Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Fukuoka Castle (Maizuru Castle) was one of Japan's largest castle complexes — its outer moat enclosed an area of 47 hect…
Yanagawa Canal Cruise
Yanagawa was built on water — a network of 930 canals originally dug as defensive waterways around the castle and later…
Mojiko Retro District
Moji was one of Meiji-era Japan's most important international trading ports — the first point of entry for goods moving…
Komyozenji Temple
One hundred meters from the crowds of Dazaifu Tenmangu, through a gate that most visitors walk past, lies Komyozenji — a…
Dazaifu Tenmangu
Dazaifu Tenmangu was built in 905 to enshrine the spirit of Sugawara Michizane, a Heian-period scholar and court officia…
Nanzoin Temple
Deep in the cedar forests of Sasaguri, by train from Hakata, Nanzoin Temple houses a bronze reclining Buddha 41 meters l…
Nokonoshima Island
Nokonoshima, a teardrop-shaped island by ferry from Meinohama Port in western Fukuoka, is barely 3 km long and home to 8…
Shiraito Falls (Itoshima)
High on the granite flanks of Mt. Raizan (955m), Shiraito Falls drops 24 meters in a single white ribbon into a deep eme…
Sakurai Futamigaura
At Sakurai Beach in western Itoshima, two granite rocks rise from the shallow water 150 meters offshore — connected by a…
Asakura Akizukijo Castle Town Walk
Akizuki, a small post town in the mountains of Asakura City, contains one of Fukuoka's most complete and least-photograp…
Hakata Udon Taira
Hakata udon is the polar opposite of the springy, al-dente udon of Kagawa. The noodles are soft, almost yielding, design…
Itoshima Seafood Market
Itoshima Peninsula, 30 minutes west of central Fukuoka, juts into the Genkai Sea with 400 square kilometres of clear, co…
Yame Gyokuro
Yame, a hillside city 50 km south of Fukuoka, produces Japan's most sought-after gyokuro — a shade-grown green tea so pr…
Yanagawa Seiro Mushi Eel
In Japan, the two great schools of eel preparation are unaju (grilled eel on rice, Kanto style) and seiro mushi (eel ste…
Daimyo Motsunabe
Motsunabe is Fukuoka's answer to the question: what do you do with beef offal? The answer is a rich, umami-drenched hot…
Fukuya Mentaiko
Mentaiko — spicy marinated cod roe — was essentially invented in Fukuoka. The story begins in the late 1940s when Toshio…
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