After a very comfortable four hour bus journey we are now in Fukuoka, the biggest and most populated city of Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. Apparently Fukuoka is nearer to Seoul in South Korea than it is to Tokyo, I don't know why, but i found that fact rather cool.
We haven't actually done much since we got to Fukuoka, we have seven nights here so I guess we just want to relax a little. We achieved this by going to Momochi Beach twice in a row. It is a very nice beach and is located right near the "Yahoo Dome". A baseball stadium for the home team of Fukuoka, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, we may even be going to watch a game on monday night if we can get the tickets. Seeing as it is not sumo season, baseball is the next big one in Japan. So we really want to give it a go. Momochi Beach is also a great place to meet the locals. Me, Hayley, Ed and Annika got involved in a volleyball game with two Japanese fellows. Annika was with the two fellows, Naruto and the others name has slipped my memory. However, we won the match. Whatever anyone tells you.
Tonight we are heading to the streets of Tenjin, which are lined with food stalls called "yatai". These food stalls do a variety of foods, but I am really hoping to sink my teeth into some "Hakata ramen" a local speciality, and as the name suggests, a ramen dish.
We plan do to a bit more throughout the latter half of the week in terms of sight seeing and I hope my next post has a bit more content to it. On a personal note, I had a skype chat with my mother a few nights ago, she recently had a major operation, yet she looked great. It made me think about how the world has thrown so much shit at her, but she never let it beat her. She always fought back, and she always got back on her feet. She has never been a coward and has more strength than anyone I know. She is my hero. I really hope that the operation, was the last.
Thanks for reading.
Arigatou, Sayounara
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