Yanagawa is the birthplace of renown poet Hakushu Kitahara, whose accomplishments  are marked by a memorial park and the many stone monuments bearing his works placed throughout the city.    The house harmoni …

Birthplace of Hakushu Kitahara…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                        HOME    The urban living area where you can enjoy a resort lifestyle full of fu …

Marinoa City Fukuoka…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                          HOME    The Kanmon Straits, separating Honshu and Kyushu, is a very busy waterway …

Kanmon Straits…の続きを読む

  The narrow chasm cut through the rock by the Gokase River. The nearly sheer cliffs lining  the gorge are made of slow forming volcanic basalt columns which resemble the scales of a dragon where the stone twisted a …

Takachiho Gorge…の続きを読む

  The tour visits Christian Pilgrimage sites in Nagasaki, Sotome, Shimabara and Unzen Hirado and Fukuoka.   Japanese Christianity has a Unique history of continuing faith while coexisting with  Japanese traditi …

6 days Christian Pilgrimage tour in Naga…の続きを読む

Hakozaki Shrine founded in 923, is one of the three great Hachiman shrines in Japan along with the Usa Shrine.        It is one of the representative shrines of Fukuoka-city and the place where many people come …

Hakozaki Shrine…の続きを読む

Hakata Dontaku Festival, the name Dontaku is a corruption of the Dutch word  Zontag, meaning Sunday. The festival is said to have started as a New Year parade of merchants going  to the local lord’s residence to celebrat …

Hakata Dontaku Festival…の続きを読む

  One of the largest entertainment districts in western Japan, bustling at night with young people and business men and women. Around 2000 eating and drinking establishments including Yatai is crammed in this area, …

Nakasu…の続きを読む

  Tamaseseri, a lively New Year’s Festival held on January,  at Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka-city, including a traditional form of fortune-telling.         　 Several hundred men wearing lion cloths compete on pi …

Tamaseseri / wooden ball catching festiv…の続きを読む

Hojoya is the festival held Hakozaki Shrine to celebration of all living creatures.  It has a history of over 1000 years.        Hundred of doves and carp will be released on September 18 in reverence  of all living thin …

Hojoya…の続きを読む