One of many of the yatai (food stalls) in Nagasaki which sell beer and snacks out on the street

Our local vending machine selling homemade snacks. We had some tasty sweet potato chips 🍟

Enjoying lots of good local fish at a standing sushi bar for meal 3 of Eat Nothing But Sushi day

The very lovely and delightful Ohori Park, featuring huge carp and turtles fighting for bread

Of course we took a swan pedalo out for a turn (and raced the locals, though you can't go very fast)

Fukuoka has some particularly good flyovers

A trip up Fukuoka Tower which looks like a skyscraper but is empty. Admiring Italian pastiche below

Fukuoka

May 15–19, 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

Last stop in Kyushu is up to Fukuoka - closest city to Korea and far more full of tourists because of it!

We were proud to have ticked off everything on the YouTube @abroadinjapan list of things to do in Fukuoka and still had time to have a day in which we ate only sushi and to plan a ski holiday for next year, as you do.

We did this by walking about 30000 steps a day though that's partly because our hotel was nowhere near the centre. 🤷‍♀️

All in all some delightfully overengineered road infrastructure, some very tasty food (mostly but not all sushi), a really very enjoyable park on a lovely sunny day and a very entertaining and pointless view tower overlooking the bay and a very fake beach. We enjoyed it a lot.Read more