4K Walking around Hakata City (博多駅周辺の散歩)

Hakata is the area of ​​Chikuzen Province in northern Kyushu, now Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture.It is a port town and port city facing Hakata Bay, and was also called Hakata Tsu.
It prospered from ancient times in history and from the latter half of the 3rd century in archeology. It is one of the oldest ports in Japan (Minato). Historically, it has been the center of diplomacy and trade starting with the envoys to Sui and Tang, and on the other hand, it is one of the key points in defense that is exposed to wars and arrivals with peninsulas and continents, including Tsukushi and northern Kyushu. there were. This situation, which functioned as the outer port of Dazaifu, continued until around the Kamakura period, when Dazaifu occupies an important position in national affairs and there were severe outports such as the Mongol invasion.
In the Middle Ages, it prospered as the first autonomous city in the history of Japan, which was governed by a collegial system of large merchants. I was repeating.
In the Edo period, Mr. Kuroda entered Japan and built a castle town Fukuoka across the Nakagawa River, and Hakata and Fukuoka prospered as bipolar cities. In the Meiji era, the city system was enforced as Fukuoka City, and the place name of Hakata remains as Hakata Ward.

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