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 complete with onsen (hot baths) and very Japanese dinner. A very traditional ryokan.

Some people say Walk Japan should be Eat Japan. There is 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 6.5kmLæs mere