Now Reports

Kaiboku

At Kaiboku, owner-chef Kenji Okabayashi offers exquisitely crafted Japanese meals with seasonal ingredients. Small appetizers are followed by a second course of assorted fresh sash...

• #Food & Drink
• #Summer
• #Tenjin

Honjo Kakashi Matsuri – Scarecrow Festival

Today we visited a small village inhabited by scarecrows! As this is the year of the monkey, many monkeys represented too. The festival runs until Oct. 22. The red flower is 彼岸花 “h...

• #Events
• #Festival
• #Hita

Chun Shui Tang Taiwanese Cafe Opens in Fukuoka

This morning Fukuoka Now attended a pre-opening event for Chun Shui Tang, the famous tea cafe from Taiwan inside Tenjin Chikagai. The cafe is said to have been the inventor of “bub...

• #Food & Drink

Kimono Rental Experience in Fukuoka

Beautiful, intricate and feminine: kimono is an iconic symbol of Japanese culture. But if you want to buy one of these wearable pieces of art, it could easily set you back thousand...

• #Art & Culture
• #Fukuoka Prefecture

Sunset Live 2016 Report

The power of Sunset Live’s music and vibes kept Typhoon #12 away and, despite the predicted storm, both Saturday and Sunday went down without a single drop of rain...

• #Others
• #Itoshima

Drag Show for Foreigners in Fukuoka

Glitter, feathers and leather - welcome to Fukuoka’s biggest, brashest drag act! On Sep. 6, Fukuoka Now took a group of...

• #Art & Culture

Fukuoka Now: Life as a Freelance Contributor

I arrived in Fukuoka last September as part of a program offered by my university, which involved spending a year learning Japanese at a university in Fukuoka Prefecture. Knowing n...

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• #Fukuoka Prefecture

An Awe-Inspiring Evening: Fukuoka’s First International Ballet Festival is a Big Success

July ended with a real treat for all those who attended one-of-a-kind performances at Fukuoka’s ACROS Symphony Hall and Kitakyushu’s Performing Arts Centre. World-class ballet danc...

• #Art & Culture
• #Festival
• #Kitakyushu
• #Tenjin