Now Reports

Choun Yamazaki: A Famous Sculptor from Hakata

In the middle of Higashi Park stands a bronze statue of Emperor Kameyama, who ruled in the Kamakura period at the end of the 13th century. When the Mongols invaded, he visited shri...

• #Art & Culture
• #Fukuoka Topics
• #Fukuoka City

Hakata Ratanmen Marutan

Here, in the noodle mecca of Fukuoka, Marutan has created a brand new genre called ratanmen - an original combination of Hakata ramen and tantanmen. The first thing you notice is t...

• #Food & Drink
• #Ramen
• #Tenjin

This Month in Fukuoka: March 2017

Welcome to Fukuoka Now! Since 1998 our team of local experts have been introducing the best of Fukuoka to the world. Here are our This Month picks for the month of March, featuring...

• #Art & Culture
• #Fukuoka City

Cafe Brasileiro

Originally opened in 1934 by the state of São Paulo to promote Brazilian coffee, Brasileiro is the oldest cafe in Fukuoka. “Our number one priority is coffee,” says second generati...

• #Food & Drink
• #Hakata

Sushi Taro

When Japanese visit Fukuoka, sushi tops their “to eat” list. Fish here is abundant, extremely fresh and reasonably priced. Increasingly, more foreign visitors are also coming to sa...

• #Food & Drink
• #Guide
• #Sushi
• #Fukuoka City
• #Hakata-ku

Michael Hall

Michael Hall is one of Fukuoka’s long time residents, moving to the city some 35 years ago. Over the last few years he has funnelled his passion for agriculture into the the explor...

• #People
• #Fukuoka Prefecture
• #Hakata

World Hobby Festival 2017 Report

The World Hobby Festival, WHF for short, brought the excitement of the hobby and game worlds to Fukuoka last Sunday (Feb. 12). The event, held in the monstrously large Yahuoku! Dom...

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• #Festival

Interview with a Sento Expert: Masami Usagawa

By day, Masami Usagawa is a Korean-Japanese translator and interpreter living in Fukuoka. She also has a fascinating second life: one in which she has visited over one thousand sen...

• #Art & Culture
• #Fukuoka City