Kitakyushu
Mekari Jinja
Before dawn on the first day of the lunar year, priests wade into the sea to cut wakame. It stands on the shore of the Kanmon Strait.
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Dazaifu
Komyozenji
The Bukko stone garden draws the character for light in white sand and stone. The only Zen temple in Dazaifu.
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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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FukuokaCastles & HistoryDazaifu
Dazaifu Seicho
The administrative base of Kyushu, called the distant court. Only the foundation stones remain.
Tagawa
Kawaradake
Limestone quarrying changed the shape of the mountain. It stands next to the Chikuho coalfield.
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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.
FukuokaHistoric DistrictsDazaifu
Umegae Mochi
From the legend of an old woman who brought Michizane a rice cake. They are sold fresh off the griddle.
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Kawachi Fuji Garden
A wisteria tunnel 110 metres long. Overseas photography sites made it famous overnight.
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Mojiko Retro
A Taisho-era station building and customs house. It faces Shimonoseki across the Kanmon Strait.
FukuokaHistoric DistrictsYanagawa
Yanagawa Boat Ride
You tour the canals by donko boat. The birthplace of Kitahara Hakushu.
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Tagawa Coal Museum
Yamamoto Sakubei's paintings of the coal pits are on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
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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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Kyushu National Museum
Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.