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Hakozakigu
One of the three great Hachiman shrines with Usa and Iwashimizu. The plaque on the gate reading enemy nations surrender dates from the Mongol invasions.
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Kushida Jinja
The tutelary shrine of Hakata. The Hakata Gion Yamakasa is a rite dedicated to this shrine, and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Sumiyoshi Jinja
One view holds it to be the first of all Sumiyoshi shrines in Japan. With Osaka and Shimonoseki it is one of the three great Sumiyoshi.
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Kego Jinja
It sits surrounded by the office blocks of Tenjin. Unusually, its grounds include a foot bath.
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Hakata Gion Yamakasa
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Before dawn on 15 July, the floats race through Hakata in the Oiyama.
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Hakata Yatai
Four in ten of all the food stalls in Japan are in Fukuoka. They line Nakasu and Tenjin.
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Hakata Ori
Obi sashes in the kenjo pattern. The dolls are unglazed clay, painted after firing.
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Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
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Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.
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Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.
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Fukuoka City Museum
Holds the gold seal a farmer dug up in 1784 - 2.3 centimetres of metal that anchors the start of recorded Japanese history.
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Hakata Textiles
Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.
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Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.
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Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.
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Nexus World
Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.
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Shikanoshima
Where the gold seal was found; a tied island whose very geography explains the ancient sea routes.
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Hakata Bentwood Ware
Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.
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Canal City Hakata
A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.