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Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Koko Kobo & Cafe
Perched above the Nijo Parking Area along coastal Route 202, Koko produces original ceramics inside her own studio complete with a kiln...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Hideaway Sunset Camp
Kenji Hayashi, the founder of Sunset Cafe, Itoshima’s legendary beach cafe in Futamigaura in the early nineties, breaks new territory this month with the opening of Itoshima’s firs...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Analog Craft Chocolate
After 16 years of baking cakes in Kitakyushu, Kenji Nagatomi is focusing on his passion – chocolate. Luckily for us, he opened a shop just steps from Chikuzen-Maebaru Station where...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Shanti
Since the mid-eighties, Masato Sakoda has journeyed around Asia collecting and trading antique beads. In January 2018, Masato and his French wife moved their workshop and gallery f...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Wild Mart
Few places are more appropriately named! Built by hand by the owner Masato Yamakita and his friends ten years ago, the shop/cafe is located on a forested hillside overlooking farm ...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Kawakubo Saketen
The only hint of what awaits inside is a large and precariously hung grape vine. This stark white building, without any signboards, is where Toyochika Kawakubo’s father once ran a ...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Lion Kitchen One Love
Unless you’re headed for Kafuri Port’s oyster huts, you may never drive past here. But for those who enjoy hummus, tandoori and tempeh, this off-the-beaten-track with a bohemian vi...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Maruta Katsugyo
Azuma Tanaka’s father was a fisherman, and their family has run this roadside seafood dinner in Kafuri since 1986. The massive tanks are a temporary home to up to thirty kinds of f...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Itoshima Togeitaiken Shima Kobo
Enjoying the variety of ceramics made and used here is a highlight of living in Kyushu. But have you ever seen how earthenware is made? Or wanted to try making something by yoursel...
Oct 27, 2020Itoshima Now
Bench & Mug
Kaori’s cakes look good. So good, you just know they’re going to be scrumptious. Born in Kitakyushu, she spent a few years in Australia’s Gold Coast and then ran her own cafe in Ky...
