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Fukuoka

March 3, 2024

(From wikipedia:) “Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡市, Fukuoka-shi, [ɸɯ̥kɯokaꜜɕi] ⓘ) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. The area has long been considered the gateway to the country, as it is the nearest point among Japan’s main islands to the Asian mainland”

We had a bit of an explore of the city yesterday and a rather nice lunch.

There is a canal and “canal city” is a tourist attraction so we thought it might be something like Venice but alas, it was an enormous shopping mall!

This shrine was also a working temple I think

I liked these EV scooter share scooters, great idea.

The entrance to our hotel. It’s certainly quite impressive.

Today we wanted to get out into the countryside a bit and do some forest bathing. Pauline found a promising looking forest: Sasaguri Forest of Kyushu University
篠栗九大の森

We took a local train and hiked about 25 minutes to the forest and then walked about a kilometer in a loop, it was nice to be away from the city for a bit.