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Mar 8, 2019 Event
Kyushu Spring Sake Festival
Thirty-two breweries from around Kyushu gather in front of JR Hakata City for a 4-day sake extravaganza. Sake, shochu, wine, beer and mocktails will line the parched throats of sak...
Mar 8, 2019 Local News
Fukuoka City’s Plans For a Ropeway Left Hanging
A plan by Fukuoka City to build an urban ropeway between Hakata Station and the Port of Hakata might be on hold. The project, which was listed in Mayor Soichiro Takashima’s manifes...
Mar 7, 2019 Event
Gundam World 2019 in Hakata
Gundam fans unite! Gundam World returns to Fukuoka, this time in Hakata. Explore 40 years of Gundam history as 2019 marks the 40th year of the Gundam franchise. Find scaled Gundam ...
Mar 4, 2019 Local News
Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Fukuoka’s Third Anniversary
Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Fukuoka celebrates its 3rd anniversary with a special fair. The New York-style steakhouse arrived in Fukuoka in March 2016 and has since been a popular destin...
Feb 27, 2019 Event
Japan Pizza Festival
Attention pizza lovers! This will be one of the largest Napoletana pizza events held in Japan! Produced in collaboration with the prestigious “Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana”...
Feb 6, 2019 Local News
Port of Hakata Reports Record Number of Shipping Containers
The Port of Hakata announced on January 31 that their facility handled more than one million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the first time in 2018. Metal products were among t...
Feb 2, 2019 Local News
Committee to Support Hakata Redevelopment
JR Kyushu announced on January 25 plans to establish a committee of 15 companies that own land around Hakata Station. The group will explore what measures can be put in place to ge...
Jan 31, 2019 Event
St. Valentine’s Day Chocolate Expo at Hakata Hankyu
Over 140 international and Japanese brands of chocolate go on sale, including French and Belgian chocolate bonbons, local chocolate with dried persimmons and Fukuoka’s Amaou strawb...
Jan 24, 2019 Event
Setsubun at Kushida Shrine
On the day before the first day of spring, beans are tossed to shouts of “oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi” (Demons out! Luck in!) in a ritual that wards off evil. Sweets and lucky charms...
Jan 24, 2019 Local News
Hakata Starlanes to Close in March
Hakata Starlanes, one of the largest bowling centers in Kyushu, will close this March. In addition to domestic and international bowling tournaments, the place frequently had been ...
