~2.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
The outer moat of Fukuoka Castle, remade as a Chinese-style pond garden with islands and bridges. The castle itself is ruins and stone walls — no keep survives — and the park is where the city actually goes.
The lake was the outer moat of Fukuoka Castle, built by the Kuroda clan from 1601, and became a public park in 1929 modelled on the West Lake in Hangzhou. The castle above it was deliberately left as ruins: stone walls and gates, no reconstruction, which is rarer in Japan than it should be.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr for bothSpicy cod roe, brought from Korea and reinvented in this city in 1949.
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4 hr for bothJapan’s largest seated wooden Buddha, over ten metres, with a dark walk-through passage beneath it representing hell.
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4 hr 30 min for bothPork bone boiled until it emulsifies, thin straight noodles that cook in seconds, and kaedama — a second helping of noodles dropped into the broth you have left.
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