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IMS Beautiful Beer Garden – 2015 Report

Each year “Nonobudo” and “Hakata Ono” two popular restaurants located inside IMS collaborate to produce a stylish beer garden on the rooftop of IMS. IMS has a rooftop? Yes they do,...

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Morning Breakfast Meeting at Bakery Cafe Rubin

Breakfast, no one really does it like the Americans. It’s food, sure, but it’s also so much more, a social occasion that is recognized and celebrated across the country, providing ...

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Nakasu-Kawabata: A Center of Entertainment since the Edo Period

Every month, the Hakataza Theater plays host to a range of different performances, from kabuki to musicals to plays. As the largest theater in Kyushu, it draws audiences from all o...

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May 2015 Fukuoka Now

The boys of summer are already in full swing at Yahuoku! Dome – yes, we’re talking about our hometown heroes - the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks professional baseball team. Fukuoka Now sp...

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Enjoying SoftBank Hawks Baseball at Fukuoka’s Yahuoku! Dome

Fukuoka is famous for two things. The first? It’s ramen, with its unique Hakata named, pork infused tonkotsu broth. The second, its baseball; the city is home to the 2014 Japan Ser...

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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks & Japanese Baseball Guide

Four years ago, Fukuoka Now sports correspondent, Matt Schuelling, penned his first report on the SoftBank Hawks. A lot’s changed in the world of Japanese Baseball since then, but ...

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Diary of a Kyushu Woofer

WWOOF stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms and is a movement that was started in the UK in 1971 but has since expanded to provide opportunities for farming in over ...

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Golden Crab

Louisiana-style seafood restaurants have been taking the world by storm, and now there is one in Yakuin. But be prepared to dig in with your hands because there are no plates and n...

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