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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, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~4h door to door5 stopsA wet day ashore
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Photo: Andy Li / CC0
Door to door
~4h
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — Kyushu rains hard and this city is built for it
What it costs
~¥800 pp
Transport spend: ~¥800 pp. Museum ~¥430.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
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

    ~15 minutes. A canal runs through the middle of the building

    What you will see here →
  2. +0:30
    Canal City, and the fountain show

    Roofed, warm, and genuinely odd architecture

  3. +1:30
    Hakata Machiya Folk Museum

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

    What you will see here →
    Photo: Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0
  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.

Canal City Hakata at dusk
Canal City Hakata at duskPhoto: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0
A lit yatai food stall in Hakata at night
A lit yatai food stall in Hakata at nightPhoto: Nesnad / CC BY 4.0
A Hakata Gion Yamakasa float
A Hakata Gion Yamakasa floatPhoto: lienyuan lee / CC BY 3.0
The Genko Borui stone wall along Hakata Bay
The Genko Borui stone wall along Hakata BayPhoto: そらみみ (Soramimi) / CC BY-SA 4.0
The yatai
The yataiPhoto: Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
Dazaifu Tenmangu
Dazaifu TenmanguPhoto: Jakub Hałun / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Fukuoka

Hakata in three hours2–3 hours · ~3h2–3 hours ashoreDazaifu and back4–6 hours · ~5h4–6 hours ashoreThe full Fukuoka day, ending at a yatai8 hours or more · ~8h8h+ or a late stay — the only way to do the yatai
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