Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Fukuoka Area

  • Kasuga Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kasugashi Haramachi 3-1-4
    A vast park filled with grass and trees where the whole family can enjoy sport, picnicking, and other activities. In addition to a grass lawn, the park has a baseball field and tennis courts, a children's hall and large fountain serving as a symbol of the facility, outdoor music hall, and more. Many people come to this spacious place to go jogging.
  • Canal City Theater
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Fukuoka-shi Hakata-ku Sumiyoshi 1-2-1 CANAL CITY Hakata North Building 4F
    A theater on the fourth floor of the Canal City Hakata shopping mall's North Building in Sumiyoshi 1 Chome, Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City. It's used for theater performances, live music, and rakugo comedy shows. Until May 2020 it will only be showing performances by the Shiki Theater Company. At the theater cafe they sell the exclusive Ca-rinto snack, a traditional karinto fried dough cake made with fresh cream.
  • Kyosei-no-Sato
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Asakura Kurogawa 1546-1
    An art museum in Kurogawa, Asakura City. The museum uses the school building of an abandoned elementary school and alongside their permanent sculpture exhibitions they also hold special exhibitions five times a year as well as workshops in topics including art production, soba noodle making, and hands on farming experiences. In the museum you'll find the Memorial Sound Room where you can listen and compare recordings from their nearly 3000 strong record collection on gramophones dating back to the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods. There's also a cafe restaurant serving meals made with local ingredients.

    2022桜の季節、妻と二人の車旅、フト立寄った深奥の、廃校利用の美術館、 応接現れ偉丈婦の、懇切丁寧ご案内、我恥ずかしき門外漢、されど溢れるご講釈、 高名作家の作品集、教室各々展示され、解ってきたよな勘違い、我恥ずかしき性なるや、マキストーフで暖をとり、珈琲頂き尚歓談、女史の豊富な交友は、英彦山山伏から更に、アメリカ、ユタヤの世界まで、広く深い世界観、或は思想哲学芸術観、旅から帰って蘇る、あの...

  • TORIUS
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kasuyagunhisayamamachi Yamada 1111
    Large-scale shopping center that boasts a floor space equivalent to 5 Tokyo Domes. Within the spacious lot, you’ll find fashion, everyday goods, restaurants and over 100 shops lined up. With a movie theater, a barbeque area, and a zoo where you can touch rare animals like capybaras, wallabies, and iguanas, there is plenty here for you and your family to enjoy.
  • Hakata Ribayan Mall
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashihakataku Shimokawabatamachi 3-1
    Hakata Riverain Mall offers a wide variety of stores from popular fashion brands to stores where you can experience the traditions and flavors of Hakata, Kyushu, as well as interior goods and sundries to add color to your life, gourmet foods, and a family-friendly atmosphere with the Fukuoka Anpanman Museum in Mall on the 5th and 6th floors and indoor playground on the 2nd floor. Directly connected to Nakasu Kawabata Station on the Subway Airport Line.
  • Strawberry Fields Chikushino Strawberry Farm
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Chikushino-shi Chikushi 1278
    A strawberry farm located along Prefectural Route 582 in Chikushi, Chikushino. They grow several types of strawberries including white strawberries (depending on the season) and offer strawberry picking from late November to early June (reservation required). With the raised strawberry beds you can easily pick berries while standing, and in the sweetshop facing the farm you can enjoy sweets made with freshly picked strawberries. They also offer blueberry picking from early July to late August.

    福岡はいちごも有名ですね。とても甘いいちごで、美味しいイチゴ狩りができます。家族連れにもカップルにもお勧めです。

  • Akizuki Art Museum
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    3.0
    6 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Asakura Akizuki Yacho 695-1
    An art museum in Akizukinotori, Asakura City. Alongside Takatori-ware pottery, which boasts an over 400-year history dating back to the early Edo period, their collection includes passed down art objects, ancient pottery and remains of ancient kilns excavated from archeological sites alongside various other pieces of art. The museum is closed every winter. Across the street you'll find the Asakura City Akizuki Museum.

    秋月博物館のすぐ目の前にある美術館。旧武家屋敷のものであったと思われる立派な門に惹かれて入場したが、展示はすべて高取焼の茶碗。茶器に造詣の深い人なら面白いのだろうが、こちらは全くの素人なので、何がすごいのか今いち、よく分からなかったのが残念。ただし、展示室は心地良い空間で、他の見学者がいなかったので、ゆっくり鑑賞できた。

  • Noko Museum
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Fukuoka-shi Nishi-ku Noko 522-2
    A museum in Noko, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka City. Exhibits include materials related to the Chikuzen Gokaura Cargo Ships which were based out of Hakata Bay and delivered goods throughout the country during the Edo period as well as Edo period Confucian scholar and Meinohama native Nanmei Kamei. The museum also features a diorama with an overhead view of Nokonoshima Island and Hakata Bay and other exhibits. From the museum's location atop a hill on Nokonoshima Island you can enjoy a great view looking out over Hakata Bay.

    能古島に行かれた場合は立ち寄ってみてもいい場所だと思います。これだけのために行く必要は無いけれど、島で時間をつぶすにはちょうど良い場所です。この島自体、季節によって雰囲気はかわるけれど何度も行くような場所ではないかと思います。

  • Gate's7
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Fukuoka-shi Hakata-ku Nakasu 3-7-24 gate's Building 7F
    A live music venue located within the Gate's shopping center. Shows cover a variety of genres from rock to pop to jazz and more and you can enjoy the show with a meal and a drink. The hall can be rented on days without planned performances and the professional facilities can accommodate any variety of events.

    Awesome City Clubのライブに伺いました。ドン・キホーテやTSUTAYA、JRAエクセルなどの入るgatesの7階。中洲川端駅より直結しておりアクセス抜群。ハウス内は、机、か椅子が並べられお酒やおつまみをいただきながら音楽を楽しめます。 以前訪れたことがある同型のライブハウス(椅子に座るタイプ)のビルボードライブに比べて小さい。逆にアーティストが間近に見られGOODです。

  • Hirai Kanko Farm
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Yame-shi Yoshida Mukai Te 54
    "A tourism farm in Yoshida-mukaite, Yame. Strawberry picking is offered from December to early May, and you can enjoy a 60-minute all-you-can-eat strawberry picking experience of three or four different types of strawberry (depending on the season). From February to early May you can also enjoy ""mix picking"" which adds cherry tomatoes and mini tomatoes (reservation required). During other seasons they offer snap pea picking and sweet potato digging."

    あまおうを始め、いちご狩りを楽しむことができます。他の農園よりイチゴが大きく、より新鮮に感じられました。

  • Ishibashi Cultural Center
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukuoka Kurume-shi Nonaka Machi 1015
    A mixed-use facility along National Route 322 in Nonaka-machi, Kurume. It was donated to the city by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of Bridgestone. It includes cultural facilities including the Ishibashi Cultural Hall, Ishibashi Cultural Auditorium, Kurume City Art Museum, the Kurume City Central Public Library, and the Shojiro Ishibashi Memorial Museum. You can also experience the abundant nature of the four seasons in the Japanese garden, rose garden, or relaxing forested area.
  • Poo San no Ichigo En
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Yame-shi Baba 600-3
    This strawberry farm is located about a 10-minute drive from Yame Interchange on the the Kyushu Expressway. One of the largest strawberry farms in Kyushu, it is equipped with multi-level elevated planters. The top and bottom planters are 110 cm and 70 cm off the ground, respectively. The farm uses this system to increase the quality and yield of its strawberry crop by keeping the plants healthy and disease-free. In addition, keeping the fruit away from soil means that visitors can enjoy picking strawberries without getting their hands or clothes dirty. The farm is also wheelchair accessible thanks to its wide aisles. Guests can enjoy 12 varieties of strawberry including Amao and Benihoppe.
  • Kurume Bird Center
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kurumeshi Higashikushiharamachi 1667 Central Park
    A facility dedicated to birds located in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Visitors can view some 420 birds spanning 82 species, including peacocks. Inside of the facility, there are also an amusement park with a Ferris wheel and a zoo that keeps rabbits, guinea pigs, and squirrel monkeys.
  • Sanno Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashihakataku Sannou 1-9
    A lush park filled with cherry trees and pines situated along the Mikasa River not far from Hakata Station. The park has a natural grass lawn and large playground for children to enjoy; the park is also often used by adults for running and physical fitness training. In the spring, the park bustles with families and others come to view the cherry blossoms.
  • Mekari Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kitakyushushimojiku Moji
    This is a park situated within northern Kyushu’s “Setouchi National Park,” with close views of Honshu across the Kanmon Straits. It is popular with both adults and children, and there are saltwater pools inside as well as one the country’s largest frescos in Arita-ware porcelain: “Genji and Heike Dan-no-ura Battle Picture Scroll.” The large viewing platform offers an unbroken view of the Kanmon Straits. At night one can see the setting sun sinking into the Hibikinada Sea, the Kanmonkyo Bridge lit up, and a night view of the Mojiko Retro area.
  • Event Hall Skala Espacio
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukuoka Fukuoka-shi Chuo-ku Watanabe-dori 4-8-28 FT Building B2
    An event hall in Watanabe-dori 4-Chome, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City. They offer a motorized stage that can switch between a runway layout, stage layout and more, as well as lighting and sound facilities and a service lift that can even accommodate cars. There's a spacious foyer with attached bar and catering is available from the Italian restaurant located within the same building.
  • Kurume Hyakunen Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kurumeshi Hyakunenkouen 2432-1
    A park created to commemorate Kurume City's 100th anniversary. The park has a large grass lawn, event space, and azalea garden. When the flowers are in bloom, from April to May, the Kurume Azalea Festival is held in the park, attracting large numbers of visitors.
  • Reisen Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashihakataku Kamikawabatamachi 7
    A public park located in an office district in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City. During the daytime, the park serves as a place for local office workers to relax and refresh themselves. At night, the park is filled with food stalls and bustles with locals and tourists alike. Events such as Oktoberfest are also regularly held here. It is a renowned destination for cherry blossom viewing in spring. In cherry blossom season, great throngs of people come here to enjoy the blooms.
  • Sato-no-Eki Hirokawa Fruit Village
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Yame-gun Hirokawamachi Yoshitsune 268
    An agricultural produce direct sales shop and tourist farm in Hirokawa Town, Yame County. They sell locally sourced fresh vegetables and fruits as well as processed goods including fruit treats. In the farm they grow strawberries, Nashi pears, grapes, and more allowing you to enjoy seasonal fruit picking and the farm is also the site of various events including concerts.

    二年ぶりに行ったら、ビニールハウスも増えていて、お客様も多く、色んな品種のいちごがありました。 感動でした。

  • Moji Akarenga Place
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukuoka Pref. Kitakyushushimojiku Dairihonmachi 3-11-1
    A tourist attraction, located in Moji Ward, Kitakyushu City, which makes use of the former Sapporo Beer Kyushu Plant. There are a variety of facilities here for visitors to enjoy, such as the Kitakyushu Beer & Brick Museum in Moji, a museum with exhibits on the history of beer; and the Museum of the Sapporo Beer Breweries, a designated National Cultural Property. Visited by large numbers of tourists, there's also a restaurant and cafe.

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The most northerly of Kyushu island’s prefectures, Fukuoka comprises castle towns, seaside parks, and Hakata ramen, one of Japan’s most famous noodle dishes. Whether due to its good location or its unique charm, the prefecture’s capital, Fukuoka city, has been voted one of the most desirable places to live in the country - a close-knit community, a thriving food scene, and accessible nature combine for irresistibly laid-back city vibes.

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