Tag: fukuoka
Stay in Hakata Style at Hotel Vista Fukuoka
Looking for places to stay in Fukuoka? With its fresh ‘Hakata’ aesthetic and convenient location, the three-star ‘Hotel Vista’ is a wonderful choice. Opened in December of 2019, Vista is minutes from the subway and perfectly positioned...
This Romantic Park in Fukuoka is the Perfect Place to Chill Out: Ohori Park
Fukuoka is a shopper’s paradise; its most famous feature being Hakata Canal City, a 2.5 million square foot shopping complex with an honest-to-goodness canal running through it. It’s the largest private development in all of Japan. That said, once the shopping frenzy...
Backpacking Through Japan – An Overview
In the spring of 2019, my fiancée and I spent three weeks backpacking from Tokyo to Okinawa. Traveling over 2000 kilometers using a mix of almost two dozen local trains, five buses, and one boat, we managed to traverse more than half...
Frittering About in Fukuoka: Tokyo to Okinawa Day 10
Sometimes, the best days of a vacation are the ones where things fail to go as planned. When an amusement park turned out to be defunct, and an art gallery closed, we ended up on a self-guided tour of Fukuoka. Instead of...
All Aboard the Sanyo Main Line: Tokyo to Okinawa Day 9
After a two-day stay, we left the city of Hiroshima behind us and boarded a series of local trains on the Sanyo Main Line bound for Fukuoka. The 9thday of our trip would prove to be the longest. All told, we travelled...
Kengo Kuma’s Starbucks design in Fukuoka
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has been making headlines lately for his epic design of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium, now under construction. Kuma is known for incorporating timber in his designs to create stunning spaces; as such the stadium will feature cedar and larch...
