Day five Fukuoka 福岡

I flew down from Tokyo to Fukuoka, almost didn’t😳. I confirmed with no less than five people that all ANA flights depart from terminal 2 of Haneda airport. apparently, that does not hold true for any small partner airline of ANA. Where did I need to be, terminal 1. with only one operative shoulder, I dragged the backpack 400 m through the tunnel, joining terminal one and two. Big fun. After that, things got much better.

Kiyoshi Natori picked me up at Fukuoka Airport whereupon we drove to his house, albeit with a couple of detours, one being for me to buy a roller bag because the shoulder still would not permit me to wear the backpack. so much for planned hiking in the Tango Hanto the following week. we had tea and sweets with his wife at their house. Very enjoyable, great conversation. The three of us left for lunch at a resort where Kiyoshi had driven a tour bus, for a time, after his retirement as a patent attorney for the parent company of Subaru. we returned to the house and dropped off his wife, and then the two of us went off for a sightseeing excursion. We spent the afternoon at Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine. Thereafter, we left to check in at my hotel, where he also booked a room for the first night that I would be there. That was cool! We explored Hakata Station where he showed me how I would board the Shinkansen a couple of days later to head to the Tango Peninsula north of Kyoto on the Sea of Japan. we wandered the town a bit, stopped into and informal tempura shop for dinner, and called it a night.Read more