There are endless urban centers to visit in Japan beyond Tokyo and Kyoto. To shift in a different direction from those two heavily touristed cities, head southwest to the island of Kyushu and its ...

Amid the baseball games, art galleries and temples, Kyushu island’s largest city has a street food and nightlife culture ...

FUKUOKA--A packed crowd of revelers reached to catch bags of beans tossed by Kabuki actors in the seasonal setsubun ceremony held on Feb. 3 at Kushidajinja shrine in Hakata Ward here. “I love ...

A Shinto shrine in Japan's western prefecture of Fukuoka has held a traditional ritual of collecting seaweed from the ocean and offering it before an altar to pray for navigational safety and a large ...

Fukuoka, a vibrant city in Japan, is renowned for its unique food culture. Small, open-air, mobile food stands – called yatai – offer an array of local delicacies and give the city its unique ...

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of the Upper House, and Takamaro Fukuoka, health minister, also sent masakaki offerings to the shrine on Oct. 17. A bipartisan Diet members' group for visiting Yasukuni ...

Ahead of China’s Lunar New Year holiday, a cruise ship carrying approximately 1,800 Chinese tourists docked at Hakata Port ...