{"id":9730,"date":"2019-10-11T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:11:39","slug":"japan-day-38-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9730","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 38: Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. I met a rugby ref from Albuquerque who was originally from Australia and we watched the rugby game together. Once again I’m going to be posting later in the day\/morning because I stayed out too late.<\/p>\n

I started out the day pretty simply, at the Pronto across the street. I like these easy breakfasts.<\/p>\n

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I went to the tourist bureau (at the station, as expected) to ask what I should see and they told me Dazaifu. That wasn’t on the web sites but it looked interesting so I got on the 40 minute bus ride to Dazaifu. It sounded like just another shrine, but there was a museum nearby and that sounded interesting.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to do the shrine thing so I had to line up behind a whole high school\u2019s worth of kids. I overheard one of the boys and he said he was going to wish for a girlfriend. I should\u2019ve told him it hasn\u2019t worked for me so he might want to reconsider especially since Dazaifu is traditionally where you pray for academic success.<\/p>\n

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Behind the shrine was a Inari shrine. I forgot what the Inari shrine was supposed to deify, but I started to think Inari was the god of staircases.<\/p>\n

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Two interesting features: instead of one bell, there were 12 bells for each sign of the Chinese zodiac, plus the main bell.<\/p>\n

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There was a cave behind the shrine as well, something I\u2019ve seen once before.<\/p>\n

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I went by the \u201cwaterfall\u201d that was barely a trickle.<\/p>\n

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Then it was museum time. The first museum I went to held the treasures of the shrine.<\/p>\n

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Then I followed signs to the Kyushu National museum, which I figured out might be a big deal on the way. First, there\u2019s two escalators to take you up a mountain.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s two people movers to get you to the museum.<\/p>\n

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When you finally get there, the building is HUGE.<\/p>\n

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I doubt this Miyoshi can move. It looks awfully top-heavy.<\/p>\n

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I went to the regular exhibit floor where they had the standard history of Japan stuff. There was a special exhibit from the 3rd century in China. I also went to the third museum that showed history with Hakata dolls but I just sped through that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all I had for lunch. Ume and matcha soft ice cream. It wasn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n

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I went back to my room and booked my tickets for Hokkaido and my trip to see the easternmost point of Japan at Cape Nosappu near the end of October. I was just taking it easy until the night market started.<\/p>\n

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The night market was mostly international food and some people I talked to told me to go to the traditional yatai instead and the yatai weren’t far away.<\/p>\n

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I walked around until I found a place that was crowded and had tonkotsu ramen and teba gyoza. The gyoza was stuffed into the chicken wing!<\/p>\n

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Sadly, it wasn\u2019t the best ramen I\u2019ve had on this trip. In fact, I think I liked the ramen I had at the street fair in Sapporo better. But it wasn\u2019t expensive.<\/p>\n

I went on to a yakitori place and it cost twice as much as the ramen. It wasn\u2019t twice as good. That\u2019s where I met the guy from Albuquerque who wanted to watch rugby and I told him I knew a place. We ended up talking for a while and having a couple more beers. Just enough to keep me from being able to finish this post last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh boy. I met a rugby ref from Albuquerque who was originally from Australia and we watched the rugby game together. Once again I’m going to be posting later in the day\/morning because I stayed out too late. I started out the day pretty simply, at the Pronto across the street. I like these easy breakfasts. I went to the tourist bureau (at the station, as expected) to ask what I should see and they told me Dazaifu. That wasn’t on the web sites but it looked interesting so I got on the 40 minute bus ride to Dazaifu. It sounded like just another shrine, but there was a museum … Continue reading Japan Day 38: Fukuoka<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10239,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}