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#CatTravels: Walking the lively streets of Fukuoka

By Catherine Toth Fox • September 7, 2013 • #CatTravels, Food

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We hit the streets of Fukuoka early, around 8 a.m., and headed toward Hakata Station. Though the sidewalks here are huge, they also serve as bike lanes, and dodging bicyclists wasn't as easy as it may seem.

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Fukuoka may not as bustling as Tokyo or as culturally significant as Kyoto. But this city — the capital of Fukuoka Prefecture and the sixth largest in Japan — has its own kind of charm.

First off, it’s walkable. Meaning, from our hotel in Gion, we can literally walk anywhere — to the shops in Hakata Station to the 767-foot Fukuoka Tower. And along the way, there are shrines and restaurants and huge parks. (Fukuoka was ranked No. 12 most livable cities by the London-based magazine Monocle because of its many green spaces in an urban setting.)

So on our first full day in Fukuoka, we donned walking shoes and hit the streets, deciding to just wander around and see what we’d find.

With a map, of course.

Follow my #CatTravels adventures in Europe and Japan on Twitter @thedailydish and on Instagram @catherinetoth.

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4 Comments

  • Reply Stephanie Mah September 7, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    thanks for sharing, the food is making me hungry.lol

  • Reply M September 7, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    Hello Cat and Racie!
    Fukuoka is a great city!

  • Reply Dennis September 8, 2013 at 1:16 am

    Hi Cat! I love Japan and the food. My next stop for retirement for sure!

  • Reply David Jackson September 8, 2013 at 4:22 pm

    Love the Fukuoka pics, enjoyed my time thee and these are good memories.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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