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#FindingFukuoka: Making the last day count

By Catherine Toth Fox • April 19, 2012 • #CatTravels, Food

On my third and final full day in Fukuoka, I just wanted to wander around the area.

There are so many things to do in this place, I’m sure it would amaze you. From visiting shrines and castles to shopping at some of liveliest malls, there’s no way you can get bored here — and there are always reasons to come back.

Melissa and I met up with her running friends from Honolulu — this meant we’d be doing a lot of walking! — to tour around the city. So she had planned for us to head to Fukuoka Tower, shop at Canal City Hakata, and, of course, eat ramen.

Whatever happened in the meantime, well, happened.

And it did.

Here’s what our third — and my last — day in Fukuoka looked like:

Walking the streets of Fukuoka

Walking the streets of Fukuoka
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It was our first day to really explore the city on our own, and Melissa had planned out an entire day of activities. So we headed out early — we caught the morning commute crowd — to see the sights.

I’m heading to Kyoto and Tokyo for a few days, then I’m off to Chigaski to be part of a Hawaii festival there. Stay tuned for more of my adventures in Japan!

For more of my adventures, follow me on Twitter @thedailydish.

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6 Comments

  • Reply matt April 19, 2012 at 11:45 am

    you guys did so much. we’re usually driving all over kyushu, so i haven’t spent that much time in Fukuoka City. I have a list of things to do next time, though.
    have fun i Kyoto and Tokyo (can’t wait for pics).

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 19, 2012 at 12:50 pm

      Thanks! I’m excited — though I wish I had more time here. Really. There’s so much to still eat!

  • Reply M April 19, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Konnichiwa Cat!
    Great pixs, I have to go to Fukuoka the next trip to Japan. Any of you speak or read Japanese?

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 19, 2012 at 12:50 pm

      Not really. I BARELY speak, but I’ve been managing!

      • Reply M April 19, 2012 at 1:11 pm

        When we travel to Japan, because my wife and I can’t speak or read Japanese we look for restaurants with either menus in english or menus with pictures.

        • Reply matt April 20, 2012 at 5:39 am

          when we go, I can read the katakana and hiragana and my wife can sort of read the kanji (she reads chinese). between the two of us and my rudimentary vocabulary, we can fumble our way through signs and sort of figure out what’s going on.

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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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