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Hanagen Honzenan

On the 10th floor of Kitte Hakata is a laid-back soba restaurant called Hanagen Honzenan. The noodles are carefully crafted every morning from soba flour milled in-house and delive...

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• #Fukuoka City
• #Hakata
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Merican Barber Shop Fuk

Merican, located down a dark and twisting stairway, bills itself as a modern-day speakeasy. But wait, it’s a barber shop too?! Walk through the old-school barber shop and there’s a...

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• #Bars
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• #Fukuoka City

Chai Tea Heron

Located on the first floor of an old apartment building, Chai Tea Heron specializes in the spiced milk tea called chai. Owner Kunihiro Takei, who also runs a curry shop, opened the...

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Barba Bianca

Gofukumachi still retains much of its old charm, including the renovated 120-year-old house that Barba Bianca calls home. Longtime chef and sommelier Kazuya Okubo uses seafood sour...

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Gaggan Anand and Tsuyoshi Fukuyama – GohGan Fukuoka opening 2021

In January 2018, the Ayutthaya Kizuna Ekiden road race was held to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral ties between Japan and Thailand. In this uniq...

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Emi Udon

In business for more than 50 years, Emi Udon is run by Satoru Ichinomiya. After graduating high school, he went to train in Kagawa, Japan’s most famous prefecture for udon, so he c...

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33 Cafe Green

This July, green juice maker Asahi Ryokuken opened a cafe specializing in—you guessed it!—green juice in its head office building near Hakata Station. The menu features a range of ...

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• #Hakata

Toriichi

Toriichi specializes in course-style yakitori. It’s counter-only with the owner Ippei Matsunaga stoically standing behind a small binchotan charcoal grill...

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• #Guide
• #Yakitori
• #Chuo-ku
• #Fukuoka City