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Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡市, Fukuoka-shi, [ɸɯ̥kɯokaꜜɕi] ⓘ) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. The area has long been considered the gateway to the country, as it is ...
Fukuoka Prefecture (Japanese: 福岡県, Hepburn: Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. [3] Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 km 2 (1,925 sq mi). [4] Fukuoka Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the southwest, Kumamoto Prefecture to the south ...
Phone number. 092-441-2131. Address. 2-9-3 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken 812-8512. Hakata-ku (博多区) is a ward of the city of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Many of Fukuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka City's principal government, commercial, retail and entertainment establishments are located in the district.
Christmas and Winter illumination decorations in 2018. Hakata Station (博多駅, Hakata-eki) is a major railway station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the largest and busiest railway terminal in Kyushu, and is a gateway to other cities in Kyushu for travelers coming from Honshu by rail travel. The San'yō Shinkansen from Osaka ends at ...
Inunaki Village. The Inunaki Village (Japanese: 犬鳴村, Hepburn: Inunaki-mura, lit. 'Howling Village') is a Japanese urban legend dating back to the 1990s, about a supposed village in Fukuoka Prefecture, whose aggressive residents refuse to follow the rules of the Japanese constitution. The village is said to be located in the vicinity of ...
Fukuoka Airport is the principal airport on the island of Kyushu and is the fourth busiest passenger airport in Japan, serving 25 million passengers in 2018. [6] As of 2017, the airport is the fourth busiest single-runway airport in the world by passenger traffic (after Mumbai , London–Gatwick and İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen ). [ 7 ]
Hakata Bay (博多湾, Hakata-wan) is a bay in the northwestern part of Fukuoka city, on the Japanese island of Kyūshū. It faces the Tsushima Strait, and features beaches and a port, though parts of the bay have been reclaimed in the expansion of the city of Fukuoka. The bay is near the site of the Mongol invasions of Japan of 1274 and 1281 ...
The Kanenokuma Site is located on a tributary hill of Tsukiguma Hills in the southeastern suburbs of Fukuoka City, and elevation relative to the surrounding rice fields is approximately 25 meters. The site was found by chance in 1968 during construction of a farm road. Archaeological excavations from 1968 found 348 Jar burials, 119 earthen pit ...