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Canal City Theater Signs Contract with Tokyo Entertainment Company
Canal City Theater signed a ten-year contract with Sunrise Promotion Tokyo for exclusive rights to use the 1,144 seat hall. In July 2022, the Tokyo-based entertainment company will...
Office Building to Occupy Site of the Former Hakata Star Lanes
NTT Urban Development and Taisei Corporation have begun construction on the Hakata Ekimae 1-Chome Development Project in Hakata Ward. The two companies will build a 10-story buildi...
Rendering of New Hakata Ward Office Released
Fukuoka City revealed a rendering of the new Hakata Ward Office, scheduled to open in May 2022. Construction will begin on Aug. 29 on the neighboring plot of the current ward offic...
JR Kyushu hotels offers monthly stay plans
JR Kyushu Hotels is offering monthly stays at four of its group hotels in Fukuoka and Tokyo. The Blossom Hakata Premier (Deluxe Twin rooms: ¥158,000/month), JR Kyushu Hotel Blossom...
Italian, Mexican, Chinese Collaborative Outdoor Beer Garden Opens
Three popular restaurants in Fukuoka City, Comatsu (Italian) El Borracho (Mexican) and Mandarin Market (Chinese) are collaboratively operating a beer garden inside Bayside Place Ha...
Large Gatchapon (Capsule Toys) Store Opens in Fukuoka
Bandai Namco Amusement Inc. opened one of Japan’s largest capsule toy shops inside Canal City. The ‘Gashapon Department Store’ offers 2,200 capsule-toy vending machines for all gen...
Asahi Beer to Begin Alcohol-free Beer Production in Hakata
Asahi Breweries, Ltd. announced the development of a new non-alcoholic beer production line in Hakata. According to an announcement on July 21, Asahi will invest ¥3.1 billion to re...
Olympic Kimono Project Including Kurume Kasuri and Hakata Ori Now Online
A thirteen-minute online video, featuring 213 sets of kimono and obi designed using imagery of countries and regions worldwide is now online. Developed by a Tokyo-based project own...
Hojoya Festival Cancelled for 2020
The traditional fall festival of Fukuoka, Hojoya, announced its cancellation for 2020. The September festival is considered one of ‘Hakata’s three grand festivals,’ and attracts mo...
Free Bamboo Fans With Amabie Design at Kawabata Shopping Arcade
Kawabata Shotengai, a covered shopping arcade in central Fukuoka, will distribute ‘amabie’ designed hand-held fans to shoppers. The association created five-thousand pieces of the ...