New Ferry to Remote Nagasaki Islands
On Apr. 1, Kyushu Yusen launched a new ferry service- connecting Hakata with the Tsushima & Iki Islands (Nagasaki Prefecture). The “Kizuna” ferry takes around 4.5 hours to reach Na...
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Fly Like a Star for ¥10,000 to Tokyo!
StarFlyer is offering discount flights from Fukuoka to Haneda for just ¥10,000 on Wednesdays between the 4/4 ~ 6/27 with five rounds trip per day. Tickets sold up until the previou...
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Drug 11 Internet & Home Delivery
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Fukuoka Busan Cafe Website Opened
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Multimedia Broadcast Trials to Start for Cell Phones and other Terminals
A Fukuoka organization for conducting trials of multimedia broadcasts, whose members include FM stations in Kyushu and Okinawa, announced it will begin trials in April in Fukuoka P...
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Kijima Koen Park to be Sold
The Morgan Stanley group, owners of the Kijima Koen Park leisure facility in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, announced their intention to sell the park and its hotel and golf course to a n...
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Kyushu Companies Cutting Back on Hiring
A survey of the hiring plans for the spring 2013 by major regional companies by the Nishinippon Shimbun found that 24 of the 114 surveyed, or 21.1% of the total, said they would ei...
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Softbank Group Buys Yahoo! Dome
The Softbank Group has purchased the Yahoo! Dome in Fukuoka City from GIC Real Estate of Singapore for 87 billion yen, it was learned. The stadium is the home park of the Fukuoka S...
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Real Estate Bubble Growing in Hakata Station Area?
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released its land price values for major metropolitan areas on the 22nd. This showed that the value of four properties near the...
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Shinkansen Benefit to Kumamoto: 19.5 Billion Yen
The Distribution Economics Institute of Kumamoto Area (TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: This is how the name is written on their website), a Kumamoto City think tank, estimates that the benefit ...