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Fukuoka
Kyushu's most-visited shrine, dedicated to the deified scholar Sugawara no Michizane and framed by 6,000 plum trees.
The guardian shrine of old Hakata and the beating heart of the frenetic Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival.
The oldest Shingon temple in Kyushu, home to Japan's largest seated wooden Buddha and an atmospheric walk through darkness.
Founded in 1195 by the monk Eisai, this is regarded as the very first Zen temple established in Japan.
Said to be the origin of all Japan's 2,000-plus Sumiyoshi shrines, with a main hall in the rare ancient Sumiyoshi-zukuri style.
Home to the Nehanzo, claimed to be the largest bronze reclining Buddha statue in the world at 41 metres long.
A romantic mountainside shrine on sacred Mount Homan, celebrated for matchmaking and blazing autumn maples.
Famous for Japan's largest sacred straw rope and the twice-yearly Path of Light, when the sunset streams straight down its steps.
A UNESCO World Heritage shrine complex worshipping three sea goddesses, guardian of ancient sea routes to the Asian mainland.
A serene Rinzai Zen temple by Dazaifu Tenmangu, home to Kyushu's only classic karesansui dry-landscape garden.
Fukuoka's most iconic riverside food-stall strip, where dozens of glowing yatai serve tonkotsu ramen under the neon of Nakasu.
The everyday yatai scene of Fukuoka's downtown, where locals outnumber tourists and prices stay honest along the Tenjin avenues.
The gritty, ramen-focused yatai district beside Fukuoka's fish market, and the birthplace of thin-noodle Hakata ramen and the kae-dama refill.
Known as 'Hakata's Kitchen', this compact covered market packs some 40 stalls of Kyushu seafood, produce and prepared food into one lively lane.
A themed floor inside Canal City where a rotating line-up of ramen shops from across Japan lets you compare regional styles in one sitting.
The birthplace of the global Ichiran tonkotsu chain, where solo 'flavour concentration booths' and a customisable order slip started it all.
Fukuoka's central wholesale fish market on the harbour, with a public hall of seafood restaurants and a lively monthly open-market day.
A compact ramen street inside JR Hakata Station gathering several noted tonkotsu shops, ideal for a quick, authentic bowl between trains.
Fukuoka's beloved central park built around a huge former-moat pond, with island bridges, a jogging loop and a serene Japanese garden.
Fukuoka's premier cherry-blossom park, draped over the stone ramparts of the old castle with about a thousand blooming trees.
A hilltop park above Hakata Bay, one of Japan's 100 famous cherry-blossom spots, with sweeping sea views and a historic shrine.
A serene walled Japanese garden in Hakata built around a pond and a restored Meiji-era merchant's tea house.
A vast seaside flower park on a sandbar across Hakata Bay, blazing with tulips, nemophila and cosmos through the year.
A hilltop flower park on an island in Hakata Bay, famous for its seasonal fields of cosmos, rapeseed and marigolds framed by the sea.
