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Oct 8, 2015 Food & Drinks
Canezees Doughnut Hakata
Less than 10 minutes on foot south of Hakata Station is Fukuoka’s first indie doughnut shop. With an eclectic selection of regular and seasonal flavours ranging from Congan vanilla...
Oct 7, 2015 Event
Bayside Theater at Bayside Place Hakata
Catch two of the best films the eighties has to offer at this outdoor film screening: Ghostbusters (Sat.) and Back to the Future (Sun.). This outdoor night cinema takes place on th...
Oct 7, 2015 Food & Drinks
Bunryu
If you know ramen, then you know some of the best places, like Bunryu, are found in the warehouse districts. Instead of a snazzy decor, Bunryu focuses on getting the food right: fr...
Oct 7, 2015 Food & Drinks
Jab
If you love swing jazz music or old-fashioned Japanese coffee shops, then Jab is for you. Akiba-san opened the cafe sometime around 1969, and not much has changed. The nostalgia-pr...
Oct 6, 2015 Event
13th International Japanese Speech Contest – Audience Wanted!
Participants will give speeches in Japanese about living in Fukuoka and Japan from their perspectives as foreigners. Come along and find out how...
Oct 6, 2015 Event
The Anthem of the Heart – Yokoso Eigakan #2
Check out one of the most touching Japanese animations of this autumn - subtitled in both English and simplified Chinese (courtesy of T-Joy Cinemas)! The makers of the acclaimed A...
Oct 6, 2015 Places
Bayside Hakata
27 years ago the warehouses of this port area were torn down, and from the dust arose Bayside Place. Bayside is a complex of shops, restaurants and attractions next to Hakata Port,...
Oct 6, 2015 Event
“Hafu” Film Screening and Panel Discussion.
One in forty-nine children in Japan was born from parents with different nationalities. Some are recognizable and others are not. “Hafu” is a documentary film which follows the liv...
Oct 5, 2015 Now Reports
Hakata Akihaku 2015
Hakata Autumn tour – Hakata Akihaku 2015 The Hakata area comes alive in fall, with the Hakata Akihaku (Autumn Festa) – a series of colorful events and festivals from October ...
Oct 1, 2015 Now Reports
Interning at Fukuoka Now
Oscar Boyd sums up a year working for Fukuoka Now: Finding Fukuoka Now Late one September evening in 2014, I emerged from Fukuoka Airport’s International Terminal half blind ...