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Sakurai Shrine Romon Gate and Iwatogū

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A shrine founded in 1632 by Tadayuki Kuroda, second lord of the Fukuoka domain. Behind its halls is a cave said to have opened when the rock split.

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Shima Sunset Road Roastery

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A tin-roofed coffee roastery on the cliff along the Sunset Road. No music plays inside; you hear only the waves.

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Fukae Beach Wild Sea-Bream Chazuke

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Fukuoka has long landed more wild sea bream than any prefecture. A restaurant near the port dresses morning-killed bream in sesame sauce over rice wit…

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Kafuri Bay Clam-Grilling Hut

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A tidal flat where the Raizan and Zuibaiji rivers meet the sea — one of the few places in Japan where wild clams still grow.

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Nijo Organic Cidery

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A small cider works in a converted barn, pressing whole low-spray apples and fermenting on the wild yeast of their skins.

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Nogita Beach Surfing and Bakery

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One of Kyushu's leading surf breaks, catching the north swell of the Genkai Sea, with a bakery on the sea wall firing bread in a wood oven.

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Shima Kishi Himejima Ferry Landing and Natural Hijiki Sun-Drying Hut

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The only scheduled boat to Himeshima, six kilometres offshore. In spring, hijiki gathered by free diving is dried in sheds at the port.

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Nijo-Yoshii Rice-Terrace Soba Restaurant

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Terraced paddies walled in granite at the foot of Mount Nijodake, with the Genkai Sea and the single-track Chikuhi Line below.

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Kafuri Port Morning Fish Market

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A fishermen's market at Kafuri port on weekend mornings, where they will clean what you buy on the spot.

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Shima Sunset Road Beach Swing

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A wooden swing hung from a palm that leans from the sand toward the sea. Swing and you seem to be going out over the water.

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Maebaru Karatsu Kaido Townhouse Cafe

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Maebaru, a post town on the Karatsu highway. A mid-Meiji draper's townhouse now holds a bookshop and cafe, its beams and plaster left as they were.

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Nijo Forest Herb Distillery

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A pesticide-free herb farm in the hills, drawing essential oil and floral water from the harvest in a copper alembic.

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Shima-Keya Itoshima Beef Steakhouse

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Itoshima beef, of which only a few hundred head go to market a year. Almost all is eaten within the prefecture, so it rarely appears elsewhere.

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Itoshima Coastal Cycling Base

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Cycling the peninsula between sea and hills. Electric-assist machines can be hired at Maebaru Station and along the coast.

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Raizan Free-Range Egg Patisserie

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Run by a poultry farm at the foot of Mount Raizan, serving sweets made from free-range eggs and birds raised on the mountain's spring water.

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Keya Fishing-Village Seafood Restaurant

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A restaurant in a back lane of the Keya fishing village. The owner comes from a fishing family and buys at the morning auction.

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Itoshima Nijō Fukuyoshi "Fukuyoshi Oyster" Farming Rafts and Charcoal-Grilled Oysters

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Fukuyoshi port, where the evergreen forest of Mount Nijodake comes down to the sea. Oysters grow where plankton from the hills meets open water.

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Koganemaru Natural Citrus Orchard

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A south-facing slope at the west foot of Mount Kaya, where citrus is grown among the grasses, without herbicide or chemical fertiliser.

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Mount Kafuri Summit Trail

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A 365-metre cone rising alone from the Itoshima plain, written of in the Man'yoshu and called the Fuji of Itoshima.

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Shima-Hatsu Natural Indigo Workshop

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An indigo workshop in a converted barn, fermenting sukumo with wood-ash lye and sake instead of chemical reducing agents.

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Keya Beach and Seaside Sauna

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The only beach in the prefecture chosen among Japan's hundred finest. The water is calm and shallow, with private sauna tents on the grass.

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Shima-Kuga Farmhouse Soba Restaurant

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A soba house in a late-Edo village headman's residence, stone-grinding Kyushu buckwheat each morning and cutting it pure, without wheat.

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Shima Sunset Road Trailer Cafe

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A cafe in a vintage trailer set on grass at the water's edge, facing the sun as it goes down into the horizon.

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Fukuyoshi Citrus Hills Jam Workshop

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Terraced mandarin groves on the southeast slope of Mount Nijodake, the fruit grown without pesticide or wax and boiled down in a workshop among the tr…