Adventures in Japan

Part Four of the Tour

Fukuoka is the largest city of this southern island of Japan. And, as logic would dictate, we found it to be the least foreigner friendly of the cities we have visited. Their tourist maps and magazines and such don't always agree on where the sites they describe are located.

We spent a couple hours using our complimentary maps trying to find a few points of interest that we thought would be interesting. When we found none of them, we gave up.

Well... I cursed a lot and then we quit. Seriously: why supply maps and pamphlets to tourists if neither actually help the tourist find what they want.

Jerks.

Half of them are jerks. Fukuoka has a lot of bridges. A while back these bridges linked two cities - Fukuoka and Hakata. Eventually Fukuoka absorbed Hakata and now it is all just Fukuoka city. Fukuoka, as the winner, did what all winners do - it became fat and lazy and obnoxious. We like the Hakata side better. It is much more Osaka like.

We spent a few hours wandering around a mall that Carla will tell me the name of when she reads this post and then I will edit this post to actually have the mall name here instead of all these soon to be redacted words. It was big and interesting looking and exhausting.

The mall was situated on the banks of one of the many rivers in this city. Also along the banks here were many, many food stalls. Fukuoka is known for these foods stalls. Yatai is the name for it. I have no idea what Yatai means. The food was decent and overpriced.

Now we are home and tired. I'm tired. Carla is asleep.

Nagasaki tomorrow.

Later.