Fukuoka Restaurants and Dining: What to Eat

Fukuoka, Japan,
Many restaurants in Fukuoka serve food from all around the world, including dishes from China, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Thailand, to name but a few. However, if you travel all the way to Fukuoka, you simply must try dining at one of the local Japanese restaurants, where you can expect:

* Hakata gyouza - tasty stuffed dumplings
* hirame - squid
* karashii mentaiko - hot and spicy pollock roe
* Fukuoka ramen - noodles in a tasty broth served with various toppings
* soba - buckwheat noodles
* tempura - deep-fried, lightly battered vegetables and often also seafood
* yakiniku - a variety of grilled meat

Fukuoka Weather and Fukuoka Climate Information

As with the Fukuoka Prefecture, the city of Fukuoka offers a fairly moderate climate, with an average of five hours of sunshine each day and frequent cloudy skies. Warm weather can be expected during much of the year in Fukuoka, and although the winters can feel rather cold, temperatures rarely fall below freezing at night-time and daytimes average at least 10°C / 50°F in both January and February, the city's coldest months.


Fukuoka offers approximately 180 cm / 71 inches of rainfall during the year, with rainy weather being spread fairly evenly month by month and by no means excessive. However, there are slightly higher levels of precipitation during the winter months and also the brief summer rainy season (tsuyu) during June and the beginning of July, when humidity levels rise.

Maximum	Minimum
Fukuoka weather in January	10°C / 50°F	2°C / 36°F
Fukuoka weather in February	10°C / 50°F	3°C / 37°F
Fukuoka weather in March	14°C / 57°F	6°C / 43°F
Fukuoka weather in April	18°C / 64°F	10°C / 50°F
Fukuoka weather in May	23°C / 73°F	15°C / 59°F
Fukuoka weather in June	26°C / 79°F	19°C / 66°F
Fukuoka weather in July	31°C / 88°F	23°C / 73°F
Fukuoka weather in August	32°C / 90°F	25°C / 77°F
Fukuoka weather in September	27°C / 81°F	20°C / 68°F
Fukuoka weather in October	23°C / 73°F	15°C / 59°F
Fukuoka weather in November	17°C / 63°F	9°C / 48°F
Fukuoka weather in December	12°C / 54°F	5°C / 41°F