Hakozaki Shrine
Hakozaki Shrine founded in 923, is one of the three great Hachiman shrines in Japan along
with the Usa Shrine.
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It is one of the representative shrines of Fukuoka-city and the place where many people come
to hatsumode or to worship at the beginning of the year and during festivals such as Tamaseseri
in January and Hojoya in September.
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Tamaseseri / wooden ball catching festival
New Year’s Festival held in January, including a traditional form of fortune-telling. Several hundred
men wearing lion cloths compete on piggy back in two teams, the “sea” team and the “land” team
team, for possession of a wooden ball.
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Fukuoka Chuo Wholesale fish Market
Well known as the Kitchen of Hakata dealing with fresh sea food. The Wholesale Market is
open to the public on the second Saturday of every month as Citizens Appreciation day.
Time is from 9h to 12h. The Special event is the Tuna Cooking Show, don’t miss it.
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At Sengyo ichiba kaikan or Fresh fish market hall, the wholesale work of fishes can be seen from
the visit corridor where is open to the public 24 hours. At the first floor the hall, there is Marin product
souvenir shop where you can buy local specialties including dry fishes and Mentaiko.
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General information
| Address | 3-11-3 Nagahama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-city, Fukuoka-prefecture |
| Access |
20 minutes by a vehicle from JR Hakata station 20 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport |
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Fukuoka Citizens’ Disaster Prevention Center
The Center has been built to enable citizens to actually experience various types of disasters
and obtain information on how to handle these disasters.
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What to learn
Guidance theater
Learn about disaster prevention on huge screen
Fire fighting drill
You will learn the correct way to extinguish a fire. A projector will create various fire
situations that you can practice fire extinguishing with.
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Earthquake simulation
Experience the shaking ground during earthquakes from 1 to 7 on the intensity scale.
You can also see the effect of earthquakes.
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Strong wind simulation
How much wind can you endure?
Experience wind traveling at velocity of up to 30 m/sec
Fire simulation
The force of smoke is terrible. As if in a real fire, evacuate quickly through a maze of
doors while practicing effective postures for prevention of asphyxiation.
General information
| Address | 1-3-3 Momchihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-city |
| Access |
20 minutes walk from Nishijin Subway Station
20 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport 15 minutes by a vehicle from JR Hakata station 30 minutes by a vehicle from Dazaifu 30 minutes by a vehicle from Itoshima 70 minutes by a vehicle from Yanagawa 70 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city |
| Open hours | 9:30 to 17:00 |
| Admission fee | No fee is required |
| Days closed | Monday, last Tuesday of the month, December 28 to January 4 |
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Marinoa City Fukuoka
The urban living area where you can enjoy a resort lifestyle full of fun and entertainment.
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There is also a large shopping mall, a sports equipment store, a car accessories store,
an interior design shop, a baby specialty mega store, some restaurants, a Ferris wheel,
and many amusement attractions.
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General information
| Address | 2-12-30 Odo, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka-city, Fukuoka-prefecture |
| Access |
25 minutes by a vehicle from JR Hakata station 30 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport |
| Open hours |
10:00 to 21:00 |
| Admission fee | No fee is required |
| Days closed | No closing days |
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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival
One of the most exciting summer festival in Japan. takes place from July 1 to 15 and is
held at Kushida-jinja Shrine in Hakata. There are two kinds of festival floats called Yamakasa.
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One is Kazari-yamakasa with 15 meters high, a gorgeously decorated festival float which is decked
with elaborate dolls and castles. The other is Kakiyamakasa with 6 meters high, a simply decorated
festival float which is made for carrying on the shoulders and used in the Oiyama race.
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The festival features the exciting race called Oiyama climaxing on July 15.
Teams of men clad in short happi-coats and loincloths dash down the city street at full
speed carrying their own one-ton Kakiyamakasa on their shoulders along a 5-kilometer course.
A spectacle that must be seen to be believed.
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Fukuoka Hydrogen Station
World’s first hydrogen station for vehicle to utilize the wastewater treated in the Fukuoka
Chubu Sewage Treatment Center. The process has been developed as a result of the
verification testing of technology for hydrogen creation sourced from wastewater biogas.
The hydrogen supply to vehicle
In March 2015, Fukuoka City and Kyushu University installed a station where the hydrogen
is derived from renewable energy, which produces hydrogen from biogas generated from the
fermentation of sewage sludge. This facility forces the biogas through a separation membrane
to separate it into methane and CO2, and produces hydrogen via steam reforming in which
this methane is made to react with steam.
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Fukuoka Chubu Sewage Treatment Center
It was adopted as a Breakthrough by Dynamic Approach in Sewage High Technology (B-DASH)
Project in FY2014 as part of the Hydrogen Leader City Project, which is being subsidized by the
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It will produce 3,300m3 of hydrogen from
the 2,400m3 of biogas generated per day from sewage treatment. Since there are sewage
treatment plants located all over Japan, this could be tied in with the local production of energy for
local consumption. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, it is
estimated that 130 million m3 of hydrogen could be produced each year by making use of the
2,100-some such plants found throughout Japan. (October 2015).
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Wastewater supply |
Swage treatment plant |
Sludge treatment |
Location of Fukuoka-city
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Solid Waste management & Recycling technologies in Kitakyushu
Historically, waste management systems focused on collection and disposal waste to protect
the health of city inhabitants and to improve the aesthetic appearance of territories. 19th century,
as cities grew and industrialized, more waste was produced and its composition changed dramatically.
Environmental protection and conservation started to receive increasing attention, and by the 20th
century waste was increasingly viewed also as a resource to recover materials and energy.
In the more economically developed countries, waste management gradually evolved from a focus
on disposal to a focus on prevention, recycling, and recovery.
Now, Japan is a global leader in the development and application of environmental policy in the
waste sector and Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of solid waste management in Japan.
Solid waste management in Kitakyushu-city
Comprehensive solid waste management system can be learned from waste collecting procedure
at household to the final stage of waste treatment such as incineration, landfill and recycling.
Visitor Center
Eco Project information center that supports the Eco-town. It introduces initiatives and activities
implemented in Eco-town to encourage people to proactively used the facility for such activities
as environmental study sessions and interaction amongst visitors.
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The museum has Environmental learning function, Environmental information function and
Environmental activity function. The Environmental improvement history of Kitakyushu, Global
warming and other various environmental issues can be learned.
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Waste Collecting and separating facilities
・Hiagari can and bottle recycling Center
・Honjo can and bottle recycling Center
・Hiagari bulky garbage recycling Center
Recycling facilities
Plastic PET Bottle recycling / Nishi-Nippon PET Recycling
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are sorted by municipalities and recycled into pellets
and flakes, which can be used as raw materials for polyester fibers and egg cartons.
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Waste paper recycling / Kyushu Seishi
Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers. Sludge generated during the toilet paper production
process is used to produce a foaming inhibitor used by steel works.
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Other facilities
・Plastic material recycling
・Office equipment recycling
・Automobile recycling
・Home Appliance recycling
・Fluorescent tube recycling
・Medical instrument recycling
・Mixed construction waste recycling
・Comprehensive nonferrous metal recycling
・PCB-polluted soil purification project
・Cooking oil recycling
・Can recycling
Final treatment facilities
Melting Furnace / Sin-Moji Plant
The collected waste including metals is melted at over 1,700 degree Celsius in the Melting Furnace
and then the melted slag and metals are discharged. The slag is used as raw materials for pavement
and bricks and the metals are re-used for other steel products. The process and technology of the
Melting Furnace can be learned.
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Other facilities
・Kogasaki Incineration Furnace
・Hibikinada Landfill area
Other facilities related to Recycling and Waste management
World’s first hydrogen station for vehicle to utilize the wastewater treated in the Fukuoka Chubu
Sewage Treatment Center. The process has been developed as a result of the verification testing
of technology for hydrogen creation sourced from wastewater biogas.
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The biomass recycling facility that started operations in November 2006.It takes kitchen waste
from the town’s households and restaurants, along with septic tank sludge and raw sewage,
and uses a methane fermentation process to turn it into a biomass that can be used for power
generation. After the fermentation, the digestive fluids are used as liquid fertilizer. Furthermore,
Oki Town was the second in the country to make a zero-waste declaration, which it officially
announced in March 2008 with its Oki Town Mottainai Declaration.
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Hiagari Sewage water treatment plant
The sewage come through the sewer pipe is purified in the plant and flow into the sea. There is an
also new technology plant which the electricity is generated using the sludge from sewage. At the
Visitor Center established in 2015, sewage treatment process and technologies can be learned.
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The Plant making fresh water from sea water and sewage water established in 2011.
The desalination process and technology can be leared.
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Nippon Steel / Yawata Works
Japan’s first modern steel making company established in Kitakyushu in 1901. Now, becoming
the best steel maker with World-leading capabiities. Process of steel making can be learned to
visit Blast Furnace and Hot rolling mill plants.
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Japan’s largest Biotope, the Pradise of creatures made over the year in the waste disposal site.
237 kind of birds including circus spinouts listed on the Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind
of vegetation have been confirmed in the Biotope of 41 hectares.
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Tenjin Underground shopping arcade
The cobblestone walks leading to the Tenjin Subway Station add a quaint atmosphere
to this underground arcade. Shops in the arcade bring the fashion of Tokyo, Paris, Milan,
London and New York to Fukuoka.
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The mall is also connected to about 20 nearby buildings and shopping facilities, allowing shoppers to avoid
bad weather.
Location of Fukuoka-city
General information
| Address | Tenjin Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-city |
| Access |
A short walk from Tenji Subway station
20 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport 10 minutes by a vehicle from JR Hakata station 30 minutes by a vehicle from Dazaifu 30 minutes by a vehicle from Itoshima 70 minutes by a vehicle from Yanagawa 70 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city |
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
Tel : +81-93-521-8897, Fax : +81-93-521-8898
Address : AIM buiding 6th floor, 3-8-1 Asano, Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
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