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Experience Fukuoka Via Fuku-Tabi

“Tabi” means travel in Japanese, and Fuku-Tabi is a new tour program that enables participants to experience the delights only Fukuoka and Hakata have to offer.

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Andrew Crowne

These days, Pilates is well known throughout the fitness world and is taught at gyms and private studios across the globe, including here in Japan.

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Mark Gänsicke

Originally from a small town in the German countryside, Mark has come a long way in his 26 years. The young software developer first came to Japan as an exchange student at Oita Un...

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The story of the Gold Seal

Most of the business cards used by the municipal employees of Fukuoka City are printed with a shiny mark. Whenever they distribute the cards, the recipients invariably ask if that ...

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Soraya Jayne Matsuda

Soraya Jayne studied in a Russian ballet school between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. She then performed with the Israel Ballet for five years.

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A lot happens on January 7

January 7 is known as Nanokashogatsu, and it has long been the date for the custom of eating the “seven wild herbs of spring” to cure any illness.

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Fukuoka’s Christmas Lighting

The streets of Fukuoka come alive in December with the decorative lighting the city puts up for Christmas. It festoons local commercial facilities and tourist spots, starting with ...

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Welcome to Now Lounge

On October 24, hundreds gathered in the stylish environs of newly-renovated Hotel Il Palazzo for Fukuoka Now’s first Now Lounge event. In this article we take a closer look at this...

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