Dazaifu. Japan’s most famous Starbucks
Day: April 11, 2025
Trooping through Dazaifu
Today we decided to take another trip out of Fukuoka and see the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. It was a thirty minute train ride to Dazaifu where the shrine takes up enough mountainside acreage to include an amusement park and a mall-size modern museum. The street from the train station to the shrine gate was lined with shops…
Sunglasses scored
I lost my sunglasses a few days ago (cheap ones) and have been trying to find sunglasses to buy ever since. In the US, seems every corner Walgreens and CVS has a rack of them. Not here. In Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu, in Japan. Sunglasses = yakuza (the evil Japanese crime syndicate so…
Food stuff
Lunch 2 days ago. Total = $14.00 Lunch yesterday. Total is $43.00 Lunch today. Total is $25.00