The Kitakyushu Manga Museum is located next to JR Kokura station. The museum is located on the 6th floor of Aru Aru City, a multi-floored shopping mall devoted to products and services for anime, manga, idol cultu …

Manga Museum and Aru Aru City…の続きを読む

  Uomachi and Kyomachi Ginteigai are the arcade downtown shopping streets connected from JR Kokura Station. The literal meaning of Gintengai is the Silver roof arcade shopping street and Uomachi Gintengai is the bir …

Uomachi & Kyomachi Shopping street…の続きを読む

  Munakata Region is located in the west part of  Fukuoka-prefecture  and facing to Genkai Sea. The area are consist of Munakata, Fukutsu, Akama and Oshima Island.     Munakata     Munakata Shrine Hetsu-gu …

Munakata & Fukutsu travel Guide…の続きを読む

  It is the only Station building that is designated as an Important National Cultural Property  together with Tokyo Station. Mojiko Station is a beautiful station built in the Renaissance  style and modeled on the …

Mojiko Station…の続きを読む

  The shopping area in the Mojiko Retro district located by the sea. “Full of a romance market which stir up forgetting contentment” is the direct translation of the concept Kaikyo Plaza is based on .    The ar …

Kaikyo Plaza…の続きを読む

  Situated on the 31st floor of the high-rise apartment building “Retro Hi-Mart”. The 103m high observatory offers magnificent views of the Mojiko Retro district, the Kanmon-kyo Bridge over the  Kanmon S …

Mojiko Retro Observatory…の続きを読む

  Only the place in the world !   You can cross the strait on foot. The Kanmon Strait, separating Honshu and Kyushu, is a very beautiful and busy waterway with as many as 700 small and  large ships a day passing thr …

Kanmon Pedestrian tunnel…の続きを読む

  Dr. Albert Einstein who awarded Nobel Prize in Physics stayed here. It was built by the Mitsui Co., Ltd in 1921 as a reception centre and to provide accommodation for VIP’s.  It is now designated as an important c …

Mitsui Club…の続きを読む

  Kokua Castle Garden made at the former site of Shitayashiki (lord’s guest house) located next to Kokura Castle. This garden consists of a Japanese garden and a daimyo yashiki  (a lord’s house), a building of the S …

Kokura Castle Garden…の続きを読む

  Unzen is a gentle Onsen resort situated in the Unzen National Park. The Resort area was originally developed for foreigners as a place close to Nagasaki.     Unzen Onsen Resort Located in the centre of Shimab …

Unzen travel guide…の続きを読む