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A row of yatai lit along the Nakasu riverbank at night, customers at the counters and queuing on the pavement, the canal and the city’s neon beyondA bowl of pork-bone-style ramen with slices of chashu, a marinated egg, nori and spring onionAn empty sand beach with gentle waves, a tall blue-glass tower on the right behind a line of pines and a pier building with a green roof on the far leftHakata Station at night, the JR Hakata City building lit above the plaza with the station signage legible across the frontage

Fukuoka

Fukuoka: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

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Fukuoka City's tourism site counts more than 100 yatai, in four areas: Tenjin and Yakuin, Nakasu-Kawabata, the Ohori and Rokkonmatsu side, and Nagahama. For sights, start in Hakata old town: Kushida Shrine, Hakata Machiya Furusatokan and Tochoji are within a few minutes' walk of Gion and Kushida-jinja-mae stations, and Canal City is about 10 minutes on foot from Hakata Station.

Dazaifu Tenmangu, Nokonoshima and Uminonakamichi are the day trips. For the shortest ride from the airport, stay by Hakata Station; two hotel listings put the airport about 5 minutes from JR Hakata Station by subway.

Fukuoka: food, things to do, where to stay