Yamanaka, a Sushi Restaurant in Fukuoka
I made a short trip to Fukuoka. For lunch, the only place I knew was Yoshizuka Unagiya, so I decided to try somewhere new. Yamanaka, a sushi restaurant with a modern interior I was told it’s the work …
I made a short trip to Fukuoka. For lunch, the only place I knew was Yoshizuka Unagiya, so I decided to try somewhere new. Yamanaka, a sushi restaurant with a modern interior I was told it’s the work …
For dinner in Fukuoka I picked Kiharu, an izakaya famous for its saba (mackerel) dishes. It’s not far from Nakasu. Maybe it’s because I’ve turned into a middle-aged guy, but lately I keep cra…
After lunch I went back to the hotel in the late afternoon, took a nap, and headed out again in the evening. Maybe because Dontaku was over, things had calmed down a lot, but it was still Golden Week, so the y…
In Japan, pretty much every neighbourhood has at least one good place for eel, tonkatsu and sushi. Partly for that reason, and partly because it isn’t eel season right now, I didn’t particularly wa…
I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…
After Shimonoseki, the next stop was Fukuoka. During Golden Week, Hakata is famous for a huge festival called Dontaku. Not that I had much interest in the festival itself, but schedule-wise there wasn’t …
Because of the nature of my work, there’s no slow season at any point in the year’s twelve months. Even at year’s end, when everyone is in holiday mode, I’m the only one pretending to b…
As soon as I got to Hakata Station I had breakfast first and then headed straight for Karo no Uron, but even though I ate at 9 and strolled over slowly, I got there before 10 -_-; So with loads of time to kill…
I got to Hakata Station, the western end of the Shinkansen line, at 9 in the morning. Looking around for something to eat, I found a few places in the station basement serving breakfast. I guess that’s w…
I went to Karo no Uron, a hand-made udon specialist that has been in business in Fukuoka for 130 years (“uron” is Hakata dialect for udon). It turns out it’s near Nakasu. There are plenty of …
Having come all the way to Fukuoka, I couldn’t just eat ramen the whole time. I’d decided to skip sushi, soba and wagyu on this trip, so I was thinking of trying a French or Italian place, and this…
I used the weekend to go to Fukuoka. I left at 3 a.m., got to Hiroshima at 7, and took the shinkansen to Hakata Station in Fukuoka, arriving at 9. I didn’t get back to the hotel until after midnight and …