Should You Go to FUKUOKA? (& Kyushu Day Trips)
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- Guide to Fukuoka: things to do, day trips around Kyushu, tips for where to stay and how to get around.
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Fukuoka is the main city on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's main islands. It's a great base for a exploring the rest of the island, and taking day trips to Kagoshima, Sakurajima, Kumamoto, the Beppu Hells (Beppu Jigoku), Nagasaki, Yufuin, Dazaifu and Yanagawa. In Fukuoka itself there's the castle ruins, shopping, Canal City Mall (with a One Piece show every night), parks, seaside areas, a zoo, aquarium, islands in the bay and more. Here's my round-up, with my itinerary, things I didn't do, travel tips and recommendations.
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I've no desire to return to Kyoto, especially with the tourist boom now, but love Fukuoka. Mountains, islands, beaches, easy access, calm environment.
It definitely is a chilled, easy-going place! It's difficult to enjoy places when they're so crowded so I think the answer is to spread tourists out more, so everyone doesn't flock to the same places!
Agreed, I’m glad we visited Kyoto & didn’t stay in the main tourist area but I have no desire to return. I’m also considering staying in Yokohama next time instead of Tokyo as it was more chilled out but not far on a JR line to get into the Centre 😀
@@masqueradingasanadult6600 You don't have to go very far outside the centre of Tokyo if you want to stay in a more chilled place - in Setagaya have a look at Jiyugaoka, Nakameguro, or Kichijoji and they're all very close to the city :-) When I went to Todoroki Gorge, I was surprised how it felt like a much smaller town and it's in the Tokyo suburbs really.
@@masqueradingasanadult6600 um, actually Yokohama will be crowded too, especially with Chinese tourists visiting, er, Yokohama's Chinatown,... (why?!!) (^_^) ... anyway, I think any town in Koto ward is the best,... especially Kameido,... quiet, no foreign tourists but still convenient to Tokyo central areas.
I recall being on the Shinkansen & seeing so many tourists getting off the train to go to Kyoto. Straight away I filed Kyoto in my mind as 'FORGET THAT PLACE'!
I far prefer the quieter rural areas & places that are not too touristy, even though I'm a tourist myself. Mmmm that sounds arrogant, but there you go.
fukuoka is where i'm watching your video
got here late this afternoon with my dad mitchell and his wife carlene
loved the video
rachel from queensland australia
I'm jealous! Enjoy Fukuoka and have an amazing time!!
Looks amazing!
Another great video. Thanks for all the effort you put into making them.
Thanks! I spend ages editing them so it's great to know you enjoy them :-)
Great video 👍 really nice to see vids on other parts of Japan 😀🇬🇧🏴
Thanks! There are so many videos about the popular places - I didn't find that much about Fukuoka when I was planning my trip so I wanted to share it!
Great video, very informative! You have a nice natural presentation for this.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! :-)
I was thinking about 3 hrs ago that i wanted another video from you xD and here we are, thank you!~
As if by magic! ･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
I live your videos, they’re really informative & entertaining. We went to Japan last year but barely scraped the surface & tried to stay in too many places so I’m already planning a return in 2021!
Thanks! I still feel like I've barely scraped the surface :-) Always finding new places I want to go!!
Great vid, I'm going to Kyushu next month and seeing your video is really refreshing :D
Ooh have a great time! When I was planning my trip I found there aren't that many videos (which is why I wanted to make some!!) :-)
Just found your channel. Loved the video as it helped me understand Kyushu better and will help me plan a future trip. Thanks!
Yay, thank you! Welcome to the channel! I absolutely loved Kyushu - planning to go back when the new leg of the shinkansen line opens next year.
All my Kyushu vids are in a playlist here - lots of ideas for things to do :-) czcams.com/play/PL-YXkErUfa4mMamzwAYQXCw0Xo55PBy-6.html
Excellent. Another great (half) day trip is Nanzoin Temple, just ½h away by train. We also travelled to Busan on a 3-hour ferry, that's also very cool. Thanks for the videos and enjoy.
Ah yes I've seen pictures of the big Buddha statue - he looks so relaxed! :-) I'd love to visit Korea one day too! (Just getting into the food, can't get enough of gochujang).
This is by far the most informative and helpful video about Fukuoka and the possible day trips around it that I have seen. THANK YOU!!! I will be travelling to Fukuoka for three days next month and this video was very helpful in helping me plan which activities to do in Fukuoka and which day trips I could possibly try to do. I look forward to watching more of your videos. :)
Thanks so much, that means a lot! When I was planning my trip to Fukuoka I found there's much less info and videos than if you're going to Tokyo/Osaka, etc, so I wanted to help other people! You'll love it, there are so many interesting day trips around Kyushu, it's an amazing place!
Cakes with Faces I’ve been watching your videos and just finished your Beppu Hells video. Getting ready to watch your Dazaifu video now. I’m liking and saving each video to my Japan playlist. Thank you again for your very informative videos. They’re so great! Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching more of your adventures 👍🏻
The Beppu Hells was my fav day trip actually! If I went back I'd definitely go to Yufuin as well!
Thanks for sharing info!! Hopfully after covid I can visit Japan again 🙏🙏
I can't wait to go back too!! :-)
Recently, I went Fukuoka! There was a great place to eat, play and shopping!
Glad you enjoyed it! It's a great city, and lovely to be by the sea! :-)
Great video!
Thank yous!! :-)
Great explanation .
Thanks! Hope you found it helpful!
thanks for this. booked a flight deal to FUK without doing my research and I was feeling a bit lost on what to do. this helped a lot
Thanks! I found the same when I was planning my trip - there aren't many videos about Fukuoka. There are lots of great day trips around Kyushu! :-)
Wow, This video is awesome, Now I know more about Fukuoka ;)
Thank you, I just moved to Fukuoka 2 months ago
Food is great and people are really friendly.
It seems like a great place to live - a big city but chilled, and nice to be by the sea!
@@cakeswithfaces Yep, absolutely agree with you!!!
Keep going, you are doing a fantastic Job
@@thejapaneseways2103 Thanks so much!! :-)
I love your ham necklace so much ☺️
Thanks! It was a gachapon! 😊✨
Thank you for an exciting idea as always!
For your information, a first Shinkansen takes less than 80 minutes from Fukuoka (Hakata Station) to Kagoshima (Kagoshima-Chuo Station) now... it’s become so convenient :)
Keep up your good work!
Wow that's really quick - amazing! I know some people who travel that length of time to gt to work every day (I wouldn't though!!) :-)
Very helpful thankyou!!
Hope it helps! I had trouble finding many videos about Fukuoka when I was planning!
Hope it helps! I had trouble finding many videos about Fukuoka when I was planning!
I am going to Fukuoka this November! :)
Yay, it's a great city! I really enjoyed it, and there are so many good day trips around Kyushu, such an interesting place.
Welcome, Fukuoka Japan! The Japanese is quite fond of Fukuoka.
The Imperial era for 2681 years is the historical place where Fukuoka is also called a Japanese era.
ありがとう！
Hope I can go back one day!
Just dropping by to appreciate your shark shirt! yey!
Haha thank you!! :-) It's my design! (there's a cushion too!) www.cakeswithfaces.co.uk/product/shark-attack-skater-dress/
clearest guide
Thank you! I try & make my videos helpful :-)
When I went to Kyusu in April 2019 I stayed in Kumamoto as my base point. Although most of the time there I actually visited stuff in Kumamoto itself. Though one day I did visit Beppu on recommendation of my Japanese language teacher. As for Fukuoka, I have to visited that myself oddly enough it was not on my radar ^^ Was a nice video to see. Been on my watch later list for a very long time but due to being stranded in home with the whole corona virus measures I finally got to it :)
Thanks! Kumamoto seems like a good central location for Kyushu. I only zoomed through it on the train but I'd love to go back one day and properly explore it. Still lots of places I'd like to go in Kyushu.
❤ your video!
Thank you!
Stayed at Washington Hotel, Canal City. Awesome foods and shops.
A good place to stay! I think Canal City's interesting even if you're not into shopping!
Another excellent video. Do you live in Japan or fly to Japan several times a year from UK? I really hope you continue videoing all about.japan for many yrs to come
I hope so too! :-) I live in the UK and go to Japan once a year at the most (as my holiday!) - I film as much as I can and edit when I get home.
You haven't read the text and explained it.
And you remember place names and Japanese words well.
You are amazing. I am Japanese
Thank you! Some Japanese place names are very long and sound complicated! :-)
I am so jealous I want to go there, can’t wait until, I have vacation.❤️, could please make a other video, where you are shopping for anime figures? That would be so cool 😎. *Please*
There is more from Akihabara coming up...! (Including the Gachapon Challenge 2!) :-)
Cakes with Faces so cool I am happy about that ❤️
I lived in Kyushu a couple years back in the 90s. I remember Fukuoka not being my favorite city on the island. I liked Nagasaki best, then probably Kumamoto. But you could have a lot of fun spending two days in Fukuoka for sure.
Real reason to be in Kyushu though is to experience the natural beauty of more rural Japan. Smaller towns, nature hikes, that kind of thing. If you spend your whole stay in Kyushu in the cities, you’re definitely missing the main point of being in Kyushu I think.
Thanks for the recommendations! Looking forward to going back and discovering more of Kyushu when the new shinkansen route opens.
"We've also been to an active volcano" My british countryside brain recoiled in terror at that statement lol, 'Aren't active volcanoes where films either start or finish?' :)
How does filming effect your holidaying? I get the impression that it does interfere with your ability to enjoy some places but that it also causes you to be more exploratory and adventurous.
My anime-loving-heart also sqeed when I saw that you were so close to Saga prefecture lol (zombieland saga). I'm not sure that you missed anything by not going there - kindof the whole point of the anime was that Saga needed saving from being boring and provincial :).
Haha, people live on the volcano so it can't be too bad! :-)
Filming does take planning, and I'm always thinking about I need for the video. However it's great to look back on and there are so many things I'd forget otherwise, and editing videos helps you get over post-trip blues!
I haven't watched Zombieland Saga - I love how anime locations are often exactly like in the anime though!
How was being a veggie in Fukuoka and the surrounding area? I’ve only been to Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto and with them being really popular places it’s been easy to find veggie stuff. But not sure about less popular places :’) any tips?
It's a little more difficult but not impossible! Although recently I was in Matsushima, a small seaside place and EVERYTHING was fish in the restaurants - I had convenience store dinner though. Fukuoka wasn't too bad but after 4 days I was struggling a bit - although I do impose additional rules on myself of trying to only eat Japanese food and not going to vegetarian restaurants because Phil eats meat. There are sushi places, had some fantastic Korean food, Mos Burger, tempura, conveyor belt sushi again, so yeah it was ok!
I've been really considering dropping by Fukuoka for 3 nights at the start of my next Japan trip as it makes a lot of sense on the route we're planning, so this video is so handy! Really tough question for you - which of you the daytrips was your favourite? I'd probably only be able to do one long daytrip, and deciding which is so hard! It's hard to fit in everything where there's so much you want to do 😱
Ooh exciting! My fav was definitely the Beppu Hells - it was amazing to see all the steam coming out of vents everywhere in the town, and know that all the boiling water pools are natural. Before you decide, if you like Studio Ghibli, look up Yufuin and Yufuin Floral Village - it's so cute!!
@@cakeswithfaces Ah cool - that's good to know! Yufuin Floral Village looks so cute, thanks so much for always being helpful 😊💕 your videos definitely inspired me to look more into Kyushu!
@@staceon That's great to hear! It's a place I never really thought about until I started looking at what there is to do, because you don't hear that much about a lot of these places! :-)
@0:20 ... hahaha! thanks a lot JNTO ... this used to be a somewhat boring but nice place, now it's effing packed with foreign tourists! (^_^)
I would like to settle down in Fukuoka. But I'm afraid the life will be boring after a while. Any suggestion?, would like to hear from you , thanks in advance
Fukuoka looks like a great city to live in. It's a lot more chilled than Tokyo but it's the biggest city on Kyushu. Apparently it has a lot of start-ups (like the San Francisco of Japan). You're by the sea and it's easy to get to other places on the shinkansen. I guess whether you'd be happy living there depends on what you like.
..is that a hamster pendant?? really cute!!!..going to Osaka - Scandal !!!...:-)
Yes! I made it from a gachapon :-)
@@cakeswithfaces ..good job!!!.. :-)
Nice vid. But you didn't mention the food. THE FOOD!!! Everywhere you go in Japan is special but every area has it's food speciali
ties.
Very true! Fukuoka's the home of Hakata tonkotsu ramen!
I think he just wanted you to keep spinning for a laugh, hehe
I have never been very graceful.... 🙈
Have you been to Nagano?
No - have you been? There's just so much of Japan to explore!
@@cakeswithfaces I will be going on my next trip, but havent found many videos on it
Fukuoka no (sorry sorry to my friend who grew up there!) ... I will definitely go back to Beppu though,... there is so much effing hot spring water it comes out of the storm drains! (^_^) ... the baths there are the next level above Atami
It was so strange seeing the steam rising up everywhere in Beppu! I'd love to explore the town more.
@@cakeswithfaces If you decide to stay overnight the hotel Umine Beppu is right next to the beach. The public bath is small but it's on the roof so the view is beautiful!
Kurume, Fukuoka, is the birth place of tonkotsu ramen.
There's so much tonkotsu and Hakata ramen around! It's Phil's fav!