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福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Mekari Jinja

北九州市北九州

Before dawn on the first day of the lunar year, priests wade into the sea to cut wakame. It stands on the shore of the Kanmon Strait.

福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Komyozenji

太宰府市福岡

The Bukko stone garden draws the character for light in white sand and stone. The only Zen temple in Dazaifu.

福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Kaidanin

太宰府市福岡

One of the three ordination platforms of Japan, with Nara and Shimotsuke. Monks of the west became monks here.

福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Nogakuden

福岡市福岡

It has a Noh stage. One view holds Sumiyoshi Jinja here to be the first of all Sumiyoshi shrines.

福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Kego Jinja

福岡市福岡

It sits surrounded by the office blocks of Tenjin. Unusually, its grounds include a foot bath.

福岡県 · Shrines & temples

Torikai Hachimangu

福岡市福岡

Said to be tied to Empress Jingu. Its halls were rebuilt in 2023.

福岡県 · Tourism

Dazaifu Seicho

太宰府市福岡

The administrative base of Kyushu, called the distant court. Only the foundation stones remain.

福岡県 · Tourism

Nokonoshima

福岡市福岡

An island afloat in Hakata Bay, sung of in the Manyoshu.

福岡県 · Tourism

Kawaradake

田川市北九州

Limestone quarrying changed the shape of the mountain. It stands next to the Chikuho coalfield.

福岡県 · Tourism

Hakata Gion Yamakasa

福岡市福岡

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Before dawn on 15 July, the floats race through Hakata in the Oiyama.

福岡県 · Tourism

Hakata Yatai

福岡市福岡

Four in ten of all the food stalls in Japan are in Fukuoka. They line Nakasu and Tenjin.

福岡県 · Tourism

Umegae Mochi

太宰府市福岡

From the legend of an old woman who brought Michizane a rice cake. They are sold fresh off the griddle.

福岡県 · Tourism

Kawachi Fuji Garden

北九州市北九州

A wisteria tunnel 110 metres long. Overseas photography sites made it famous overnight.

福岡県 · Tourism

Mojiko Retro

北九州市北九州

A Taisho-era station building and customs house. It faces Shimonoseki across the Kanmon Strait.

福岡県 · Tourism

Yanagawa Boat Ride

柳川市筑後

You tour the canals by donko boat. The birthplace of Kitahara Hakushu.

福岡県 · Tourism

Yame Tea

八女市筑後

First in Japan for gyokuro. The traditional hon-gyokuro of Hoshino village.

福岡県 · Tourism

Itoshima

糸島市福岡

The wedded rocks and sunsets at Sakurai Futamigaura. Studios and cafes are scattered along the coast.

福岡県 · Tourism

Tagawa Coal Museum

田川市北九州

Yamamoto Sakubei's paintings of the coal pits are on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.

福岡県 · Tourism

Hakata Ori

福岡市福岡

Obi sashes in the kenjo pattern. The dolls are unglazed clay, painted after firing.

福岡県 · Tourism

Kokura-jo

北九州市北九州

Built by Hosokawa Tadaoki. Its keep is in the karazukuri style, with the upper storey larger than the one below.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Art Museum

福岡市福岡

A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

福岡市福岡

The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

福岡市福岡

Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kyushu National Museum

太宰府市福岡

Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.