Back to Hakata Station: The Walk

Explored Kagoshima's shops, checked out, caught the bullet train to Fukuoka (all without crossing a road), and met the Walk Japan people with guide Andrew Daniels (Yorkshireman 110%) at Hakata Station. We bought the usual lunch and caught a local train to a town (Nakatsu (Oita Prefecture)) and a minibus to our first hotel at Yabakei, which came complete with onsen (hot baths) and very Japanese dinner. A very traditional ryokan.

Some people say Walk Japan should be Eat Japan. On our Walk/Eat tour we have an Australian travel writer, two Singaporean Indians who are very much like Devika and Sanjiv from HK in 2000-2002, and four Americans. There was a fifth American, but she was stressed and went back home on Day 1. We were therefore mostly a group of 10. A mere 8859 steps, or 6.5kmRead more