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The rainy-day Fukuoka, Fukuoka

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The rainy-day Fukuoka

Wet weather — Kyushu rains hard and this city is built for it. Timed from the gangway and back.

4 hr door to door5 stopsA wet day
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Photo: City Foodsters / CC BY 2.0
Door to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — Kyushu rains hard and this city is built for it
Room to spare
None
Fits a 6-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
about ¥2,800
Per taxi return (our estimate), or ¥420 pp by bus. Hakata Machiya Folk Museum ¥200.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to Canal City Hakata

    About 5 minutes and about ¥1,400 (our estimate). A canal runs through the middle of the building

    What you will see hereFull guide: Canal City Hakata
  2. +0:30
    Canal City, and the fountain show

    Roofed, warm, and genuinely odd architecture

    Full guide: Canal City Hakata
    Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka
    Photo: FlyingToaster / CC BY 3.0
  3. +1:30
    Hakata Machiya Folk Museum

    Five minutes on foot, indoors, and it explains Yamakasa properly

    What you will see here
    Kushida Shrine and the Yamakasa float, Fukuoka
    Photo: mdid / CC BY 2.0
  4. +2:30
    Tonkotsu ramen, then Tenjin’s underground mall

    Tenjin Chikagai runs 590 covered metres

    What you will see here
  5. +3:30
    Back to the berth
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Fukuoka, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

The Naka River at Nakasu, between Hakata and Fukuoka
The Naka River at Nakasu, between Hakata and FukuokaPhoto: Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
A lit yatai food stall in Hakata at night, Fukuoka
A lit yatai food stall in Hakata at nightPhoto: Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
A Hakata Gion Yamakasa float, Fukuoka
A Hakata Gion Yamakasa floatPhoto: Nissy-KITAQ / CC BY-SA 4.0
The Genko Borui stone wall built against the Mongol invasions, Fukuoka
The Genko Borui stone wall built against the Mongol invasions, FukuokaPhoto: 震天動地 / CC BY-SA 3.0
The yatai, Fukuoka
The yataiPhoto: Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka
Dazaifu TenmanguPhoto: redlegsfan21 / CC BY-SA 2.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Fukuoka

Hakata in three hoursNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3hDazaifu and backNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hThe full Fukuoka day, ending at a yataiNeeds a 12-hour call · ~10hOnly on a sailing at 21:00 or later — the only way to do the yatai
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