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Al Bacaro
Italian Cafe, Deli & Florist Tree-lined Keyaki-dori is one of Fukuoka’s most pleasant streets and also home to a growing number of fine eateries. This month we’re p...
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Cross-cultural Communicator
Anieza Noor Fukuoka is well known as a comfortable place to live for Japanese, but what about foreigners? Both Rainbow Plaza and Kokusai Hiroba do a great job at providing informat...
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Fukuoka After Dark
Surving Hot Summer Nights! ‘Tis the season for midsummer night’s dreaming, but you can’t dream without sleeping, and who can sleep on a steamy, sultry Hakata nigh...
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Bingo Love
Bingo! Aural Love “Fukuoka’s Oyafuko-dori area is well known for its dance clubs, international bars, and live houses ? in short music. So when the DJs and musicians ar...
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Kumamoto Prefecture Yamaga Toro Festival
A Dazzling Expression of Darkness and Light As veterans of Fukuoka’s own Yamakasa know, Kyushu’s summer festivals tend to celebrate manly, sweaty virtues. Yet an elegan...
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Fuji-Cho, Saga Prefecture Fuji’s Fall Film Festival
A town of rivers and ravines Yes, the summer may be coming to an end, but it’s still hot out and frankly, who wants to get out of vacation mode? If you’re looking for o...
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Ledoux
Oishii Oitan Oasis You’re already familiar with Fukuoka’s favorite local dishes, such as mizutake, motsunabe, ramen, and anything with mentai in it, but what about cuis...
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Game Boy
Hiroshi Matsuyama Since the early nineties, Fukuoka has built a reputation as a center of high quality design, video production and, more recently, software and multimedia producti...
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Ania
Utterly Unpretentious “Eight years ago when Toyota-san opened his one-man Italian restaurant he chose the Kiyokawa area off of Niseki-dori mainly because it was dirt cheap, a...
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Asia Month storms into Fukuoka
ALERT! Asian Film Tsunami Approaching! Now that Hollywood’s summer flock of blockbusters has come and gone, the cool breezes of autumn herald the arrival of a different artis...