Hakata Ramen fukuoka japan

Hakata Ramen or Tonkotsu Ramen is one of the most famous foods in Fukuoka, Japan. It is a ramen noodle dish that is served in a pork bone based broth. If you go to a good ramen shop the broth will have been cooking for many hours so the flavor is just unbelieveable. Hakata Ramen is also served with toppings that include sliced pork, pickled ginger, sesame seeds, and pickled greens.

There are many places to eat Hakata Ramen around the city from Ramen Stadium in Canal City to a street vendor at one of the Yatai’s. If you ask a Fukuoka local where their favorite ramen shop is you will probably get many different answers, so try a few until you find your own favorite.

If you have a favorite Ramen Shop let us know and we will add it to our recommended shops!

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum is located in the RiverRain Building near Hakata Station. The museum focuses on Modern and Contemporary Asian Art from around the Region. They have a very comprehensive website so have a look and get all the information you need.

Hours:
10:00-20:00
Closed on Wednesdays (or the following day if Wednesday is a national holiday)
New Years Days (26 Dec - 1 Jan)

Address:
7 & 8th floor, Riverain Center Building
3-1 Shimokawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City

Tel: 092 263 1100
Fax: 092 263 1105

Fukuoka Art Museum

Fukuoka Art Museum

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The Fukuoka Art Museum is conveniently located inside of Ohori Koen (Ohori Park). The best way to get to the museum is by taking the subway and getting off at the Ohori Koen station.

Hours:
9:30-17:30(You must enter by 17:00)
July and August until 19:30(You must enter by 19:00) Except for Sundays and holidays.

Price:
Usually 200 Yen for adults but the prices may be higher if there is a special exhibitions.

Address:
1-6 Ohori-Koen Park, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi 810-0051 Japan
Phone 092-714-6051

Fukuoka City Museum

Fukuoka City Museum
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The Fukuoka City Museum is located in the Momochihama area of Fukuoka City, Japan. It houses lots of interesting historical artifacts from Fukuoka’s past. I highly recommend stopping by and checking it out. I would only dedicate a couple hours or half a day to the museum, since a whole day there would be a waste. Luckily, there are several other good places to visit in the area such as Fukuoka Tower, Momochi Beach, Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka Library, etc. While you are at the Museum the most important thing to check out is the “Gold Seal” (Kin-in) or “Gold Stamp”. The Gold Seal was discovered in 1784. If I remember correctly the importance of the seal, besides that fact that it’s made of gold and is old, is that it was the first recognition of Japan as a country by China. My facts might be a little off but if you visit the museum you can get the full story. Of course there are also a lot of other cool and interesting things in the museum from Fukuoka’s past.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Address:
Fukuoka City Museum
1-1Momochihama3-chome,
Sawara-ku,Fukuoka City
TEL：092-845-5011
FAX：092-845-5019

Futamigaura Beach Sunset Beach

Futamigaura / Sunset Beach is perhaps the best all around beach in or around Fukuoka. It has restaurants, cafes, shops, nice sand, waves, and clean water. Since Sunset Beach is away from the city the air is also nice and clean. You can pretty much swim from June to September give or take a few weeks here and there. The best surfing is usually in the winter so you will have to have a full wet suit to get the best of the wave action. On occasion there are some pretty nice sized waves in the summer so keep on the look out.

Better quality pictures are on the way, but I think you can get the basic idea.

Yes, you can surf in Fukuoka!

This is why it’s called Sunset Beach!

Great place to get some food and drink!

Up and down the road near Sunset Beach there are lots of cool and hip places to hang out and get some food & drink. You can get Japanese food, Hawaiian Food, Jamaican Food, and everything in between. It’s mostly a summer hang out but I have found myself jumping in my car and taking a drive out there to have a nice meal with friends and family in the winter as well.

One last thing I have to mention is that the traffic in and out of Futamigaura / Sunset Beach can be a pain in the summer! So you either have to go really, really early or go at about 3pm, which is when a good percentage of people leave.

This page is still under development so stop by a little later to get all the information on Futamigaura and Sunset Beach in Fukuoka, Japan.

Shikaka Beach fukuoka japan

Shikaka Beach

Shikaka Beach is ideal for those that don’t have a car or a friend with a car, but want to find a nice quiet beach with clean water. It is not a surfing beach, although there is a surfable beach further down at a car rest stop if you don’t mind a long walk. Shikaka Beach is probably not the real name of the beach I am referring to in this post but it’s the name that was given by many English Teachers due to it’s proximity to Shikaka Station.

JR Chikuhi Line Picture

Shikaka Station is a very, very small station on the JR line heading toward Karatsu on the Chikuhi Line. It is so small that their isn’t usually any staff to take your ticket. From Tenjin to Shikaka takes about 45 minutes to an hour depending how efficient your are at using public transport in Japan. If you are smart you will wait for a train that says Karatsu on it so you don’t have to change trains, but it’s not that important since changing trains at Meinohama isn’t that complex.

Once you are at Shikaka Station just walk down the hill and cross over 202 and you will see the beach. There is no special place to put down your beach towel, just find a place that looks good to you and enjoy the sun and fun of the beach. I recommend that you go with a bunch of people and you bring a lunch or some snacks and of course some water and sunscreen, as there aren’t many places to buy things.

Click Here to View Map

This page is under development so please stop by a little later to get all the information on Shikaka Beach in Fukuoka, Japan.

fukuoka japan Welcome to Fukuoka Japan

Here is a video that one of the Fukuoka, Japan FaceBook Group members Daniel Ashley found. It appears to be made by a government agency or by a travel agency. It shows a little bit of just about everything you can do in and around Fukuoka, Japan. It’s probably one of the best Fukuoka promotional videos I have seen, if not the best. Do you think it represents Fukuoka well?

hoerbinger in fukuoka

hoerbinger in fukuoka
Yes, we do have the Hoerbinger Coat of Arms available. We have over 1 million surnames in our database. We don't show the Hoerbinger Coat of Arms here, because there are usually more than one for a surname. So, the best thing for you to do is research on the web, find the coat of arms you like, return here and describe it on our order form. WE CAN DUPLICATE ANY COAT OF ARMS YOU SEE ON THE WEB. Or, if you just want to place an order, we will use the OLDEST Hoerbinger Coat of Arms in our records. Below is a sample of one of our Family Coat of Arms. This is not the Hoerbinger Coat of Arms, it is just a sample of our artwork.

dyson john fukuoka

dyson john fukuoka


C’est au 17^ème atelier robotique de Fukuoka au Japon que Miles Dyson Ichikawa Yutaka a présenté cette main droitière robotisée.
Cette main est ultra légère par rapport à ses ancêtres puisque l’exploit de ses 400 grammes est dû aux muscles à air comprimé qu’elle utilise, qui comparé aux moteurs classiques ne font que peu de bruit et sont extrêmement légers.

Grâce à sa technologie « next gen », elle peut effectuer sans peine des tâches délicates comme ramasser un œuf, là où autrefois le mec au joystick suait des perles de transpiration pour ne pas péter la coque avec un bras articulé de 4 tonnes.

La firme prévoit la production de 50 prototypes pour la recherche et une hypothétique future commercialisation.

La grosse déchirure sur ce proto a été faite pour faciliter la mobilité du pouce.
L’aspect humain est rendu par un mélange de fibres et de silicone.On vous tiendra au courant bien sûr pour la video..

bridge fukuoka

Last weekend I went to a professional soccer game in Fukuoka city. The teams playing were the home team, representing Fukuoka, and a team from Yokohama. One of my new friends, William, a guy who works for the same company as I, and who also lives in Iizuka, scored me a free ticket. This was my first pro soccer game experience, and I really had a good time. I can't say I noticed a great deal of differences between this game and soccer games that are played in the states or in Europe, other than the fans were all Japanese, as was most of the food. I ate a juicy sausage link on a stick.

Its been really great being able to visit Fukuoka city on the weekends. From Iizuka, a train ride to Fukuoka city takes about 45 minutes and costs about 6 dollars. Fukuoka city is the biggest city in Fukuoka prefecture and I think has around 1 million and a half people. It reminds me of Portland, OR, in a lot of ways; the city is located right on the water, its has a sort of cosmopolitan feel to it (for Japan anyway - in Fukuoka city there are a lot of foreigners living amongst the Japanese), and there is a lot to do culturally. A few weekends ago I visited Tenjin, the older, more central part of Fukuoka city. It's difficult to tell much about how old things are in Tenjin, though, or anywhere in Fukuoka city really, because most of the buildings look so new.

When I was in Tenjin there was a music festival going on and several stages were set up within a few blocks to showcase bands from Kyushu and around Japan. I caught one bigger show in front of the city hall, and there were several other groups playing well within walking distance from there. It was a free show, and went on for two days. William and I were able to catch the tail end of a Japanese "Ventures" cover band performance. This group of mostly older Japanese men played some fantastic surf-rock to a small, older crowd of Japanese people. I really loved what I saw.

Its been nice for me to be able to visit Fukuoka City and Tenjin and get a change of scenery from Iizuka. The night life is big, the food is great, the people dress stylish and funny, and it's pretty easy to get around. The pictures I'm posting are of: me at the soccer game, a nighttime shot from a bridge in Fukuoka city, a shot of people walking around Nakasu, the big entertainment district in Fukuoka city, and a clip of some Japanese guys rockin' out in tribute to the Ventures.

fukuoka earthquake

As I promised in an earlier post, these are newly posted photos from our time in Fukuoka, Japan.

You can see the entire story in photos and text here

'Fukuoka hasn't had an earthquake in 100 years-- nor a major one for centuries!'

they'd told me -- surprising for this earthquake-prone country-- however, this changed March 5^th, 2005, when our home in western Fukuoka shimmied and shook for nearly a minute. A major earthquake had struck just off the coast.

We survived with minimal damage, checked our neighbors and called our friends. One, alone with two small kids in a badly shook up top floor apartment, was panicking with the frequent aftershocks (BTW, they continued for weeks), so a few of us went to help.

On the way met a friend gripping newspapers with graphic photos showing nearly every home on her island destroyed. She told us, 'They had to leave without even their shoes.' and asked us to help.

At the shelter with a team of 'Family International' volunteers, they nearly turned us away, saying they'd provided everything, until the island's kindergarten teacher excitedly asked if we could do something for the kids...

You can also read more details on the quake at wikipedia

hikari fukuoka

GAMI's The Woman promotion held its second show on Feb. 3 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. GAMI named GAEA veteran Toshie Uematsu as associate supervisor. She's assisting GAMI with the booking. The usual wrestlers were on the show with the exception of a special appearance by retired JWP wrestler Hikari Fukuoka. Can't argue with that. I'd go a long way to watch her too.



The opening match was strange because it was more suitable for a main event. It was Azumi Hyuga & Ayako Hamada vs GAMI & Toshie Uematsu. Hamada pinned GAMI after a uraken. Afterwards, GAMI joked about Ayako flying in from Mexico and suffering jet lag. Then GANI & Uematsu discussed who their next opponents should be. Uematsu said she wasn't sure because The Bloody & Fang Suzuki have retired. The next match had Manami Toyota vs Cherry which is a waste of Toyota's talent.



Hikari Fukuoka hosted a talk show segment. I'm a huge Fukuoka mark so I'm a little biased but Hikari is still drop dead gorgeous today. And she's married with a five year old son. She rarely appears in a joshi ring. I believe the last time was at the Sumie Sakai Farewell Show in 2002. Hikari says she still works out regularly and she and her husband are planning to open their own gym.



Back to the wrestling. Next was a rookie three way match with Fuuka, Yuna & Haruhi. You can't expect much from these three. Fuuka won.The main event had Kumiko Maekawa & Michiko Ohmukai vs Dynamite Kansai & Mika Nishio. This was Nishio's first match since leaving KO Productions to freelance. Maekawa pinned Nishio with an axe kick. Nishio proceeded to post on her blog that it was a poor match. After the show, GAMI says she is already planning the next The Woman show on March 10 and she wants Maekawa just before her retirement. She then threw out a bunch of names she would like to get for the show including Commando Bolshoi & Nanae Takahashi. Who ever thought those two would be big names in the joshi business? That's what things are like in 2006. Here's the results of the show.



THE WOMAN - 2/3/06 - Shin-kiba 1st Ring
Ayako Hamada & Azumi Hyuga def. GAMI & Toshie Uematsu (Hamada over GAMI)
Manami Toyota def. Cherry
Mai Ichii def. Ayumi Kurihara in 9:50
THREE WAY MATCH:Fuuka def. Yuna & Haruhi in 7:07
Kumiko Maekawa & Michiko Ohmukai def. Dynamite Kansai & Mika Nishio (Maekawa over Nishio in 17:32)

karate fukuoka

Dentro de la olimpiadas, existen competiciones de dos artes marciales: Judo (desde 1964, mujeres desde 1992) y de Taekwondo (desde el 2000). ¿Porqué no de Karate también?

Judo en las olimpiadas de Tokyo 1964

En las olímpiadas existe un número máximo de eventos (28) con el fin de que se ajusten al presupuesto. El béisbol ha sido eliminado debido a que salía caro mantenerlo, y en el 2005 hubo una votación para sustituirlo en las olímpiadas de Londres 2012, cuyos finalistas fueron Karate y Squash, pero ninguno obtuvo dos tercios de la votación necesaria.

A mi parecer estas son las razones de porqué Karate no fue elegido deporte olímpico:

En Judo y Taekwondo, se ha llegado a un acuerdo global de lo que son las reglas y el sistema de puntaje. En cambio, dentro del Karate existen distintos grupos que cada uno tiene variaciones en su estilo y es difícil organizarlos, a pesar de los esfuerzos de la Federación Mundial de Karate.

Video promocional de la Federación Mundial de Karate

El Karate es un deporte violento, en el que invariablemente habría sangre, e incluso habría preocupación de que alguien muriera en plena justa olímpica.

Aún habría esperanza en las próximas votaciones del 2009, o de otra forma, si Tokyo fuera elegida como sede para los juegos del 2016 (la ciudad de Fukuoka se había postulado también).

mitsukoshi fukuoka

Mitsukoshi (2779) and Isetan (8238), the fourth- and fifth-largest department stores in Japan, are reportedly in talks for a capital tie-up and an integration of their operations. Together the two firms generated 1.6 trillion yen in sales for the February 2007 year. Thus the combined company would be the largest department-store operation in Japan, exceeding Daimaru-Matsuzakaya whose merger into the new firm J. Front Retailing is expected to be completed in September.

A Mitsukoshi-Isetan combination would be something like a merger of Saks and Macy's. Mistsukoshi, whose history extends back to the 17th century, caters to a rich, upscale clientele, while Isetan has a strong following among younger people for its fashion sense. Although some observers suggest that matching the old and rich with the young and hip makes a nice fit, it would also seem the new company would have to move carefully to avoid alienating either group of core customers.

Geographically, though, the two firms are a good match. Mitsukoshi's historic base in Tokyo is Nihonbashi and it has stores in Sapporo and Nagoya; in total, Mitsukoshi has 20 units. Isetan's Tokyo home is Shinjuku, with six other stores in the Tokyo area, including Kichijoji, Tachikawa, and Urawa (Saitama); it also has four regional stores and eight shops in Asia. Mitsukoshi's units are located throughout Japan and Isetan's are mostly in the Tokyo area, so except in Fukuoka, there isn't much overlap between them. There's also geographic diversity overseas, because Mitsukoshi has more shops in Europe than in Asia.

Mitsukoshi has been having financial difficulties for a long time. The chain depends heavily on seasonal gift-giving by corporate customers, and sales for this group fell 15.5% last year. Japanese department stores suffered heavily during the long business drought of the 1990s, and they have been stung by competition from supermarkets, specialty stores, convenience stores, and other retail formats. Lately things have picked up a bit: Department-store sales rose 5.5% in June, the fastest pace in nine years, although much of that may have had to do with starting summer discounts earlier to take advantage of an extra Saturday in June.

Analysts expect that a Mitsukoshi-Isetan would soon achieve benefits through integration of purchasing, logistics, etc., led by the well-respected Isetan team. Isetan has already made substantial headway in streamlining its operations, while Mitsukoshi still has a way to go in improving its stores outside major metropolitan areas.

murakami family name fukuoka japan

murakami family name fukuoka japan
Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released sarin gas into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victims's family members....It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.

In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and arguably Japan's most important contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe -- from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, Underground is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world's most perceptive writers.... Click here or on the image for details

nike fukuoka dunk yamakasa

OMG!!!! THIS IS PROBALY THIS SICKEST POST IVE DONE YET. I WAS TRIPPING BALLS WHEN I SEEN THIS SNEAKER. SHOES STRAIGHT CRACK. As part of Nike’s Japanese City Dunk Pack, the Fukuoka Dunk will see its release this weekend. Available June 28th at select retailers in Japan.

nishijin fukuoka Starting something new

Well, it has been a while since I updated the blog. I have been trying various ones to see which I like. They each have a unique flare, but I think I have decided on the Blogger and connect it to my Facebook. We'll see how it works.

And now on to the other new things. We started a community center in Fukuoka, Japan called the Friendship Center. We have begun English Classes as well as Scrapbooking and other events as well. It has been a slow but good start. We had our first Coffee and Chat. See picture:)

We also had our first Travel English class and are looking into what we will do this summer. This has been a lot of work and time consuming telephone calls, set up and maintenance as well as ministry. Please pray for this new idea as we get into a routine.

We are now also praying about when to start the House Church. This is a different kind of method of Church Planting that is gaining popularity in Asia and is just really starting here in Japan. So, we are pioneers in that sense. We are studying in the Bible what the Church is, what is it's structure and how it is done so that we model a Biblical model of the Church and not just our ideas of what we want. We will probably start in Sept after we move from our current location in Maebaru to where the Friendship Center is near Nishijin. Thanks for praying with us!!

masanobu fukuoka The One Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of "natural" farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, died of old age at his home in Iyo, Ehime Prefecture on Saturday, according to Breitbart. He was 95.

Fukuoka was the author of "The One Straw Revolution," a book that has been translated into English, Korean, Thai and several other languages, and the recipient of the Deshikottam Award, India's most prestigious award, and the Philippines' Ramon Magsaysay award for public service, both in 1988.

After attending an agricultural college in Gifu Prefecture and working at the customs office in Yokohama and an agricultural laboratory in Kochi Prefecture, Fukuoka returned to his native Ehime Prefecture to practice the natural farming method that does not require artificial fertilizers or pesticides and goes beyond organic farming.

He advocated natural farming in various parts of Asia and Africa and also made efforts at greening deserts using such ideas as enclosing seeds in clay pellets.

Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology, but at the age of twenty-five he began to have doubts about modern agriculture science.

Fukuoka wrote:

"If a single new bud is snipped off a fruit tree with a pair of scissors, that may bring about a disorder which cannot be undone…. Human beings with their tampering do something wrong, leave the damage unrepaired, and when the adverse results accumulate, work with all their might to correct them."

"To become one with nature -- agriculture is an occupation in which a farmer adapts himself to nature. To do that, you have to gaze at a rice plant and listen to the words from the plant. If you understand what the rice says, you just adjust your heart to that of the rice plants and raise them. In reality, we do not have to raise them. They will grow. We just serve nature. A piece of advice I need to give you here. When I say gaze at a rice plant or stare at its true form, it does not mean to make an observation or to contemplate the rice plant, which makes it an object different from yourself. It is very difficult to explain in words. In a sense, it is important that you become the rice plant. Just as you, as the subject of gazing, have to disappear. If you do not understand what you should do or what I am talking about, you should be absorbed in taking care of the rice without looking aside. If you could work wholeheartedly without yourself, that is enough. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature."

Fukuoka believed that farming is related to the spiritual health of the farmer. "Natural farming is not just for growing crops," he said, "it is for the cultivation and perfection of human beings."