Come Away with Me

六年ぶり福岡-Fukuoka 6 years later

After the orientation at Nagasaki, I decided to make a trip to nearby (by Japanese standard) Fukuoka for a 3D2N shopping trip and also to meet up with my Fukuoka host family from 6 years back when i first came to Japan on a homestay program.

I shall post more pictures from the trip and talk less i figure :P

Boarded the limited express train 'Kamome' at the Nagasaki JR station on 23rd Aug. The round trip ticket set me back by 5000yen and the journey was a comfortable 1hr 55min to Hakata station, neat : ) I had a good nap on the train before it pulled into Hakata where i began my big city fun!

After checking into hotel, i headed straight to the big stores in the city for some much needed retail therapy. Walked around Canal City for a while but really it is just any other big department store that lacks character, nothing too fascinating here though i did bought a few cheap tops, hee!

The next day was spent shrine/temple hopping in the morning as Joe (my unlikely travel partner for this trip) wanted badly to quench his thirst for some cultural fix. There are simply so many of these though in Japan, big or small, famous or abandoned and you can find them everywhere that i've sort of grew numb to their presence. So anyway, these are some which we went to, the names of which i am sorry i can't remember ;p

In the afternoon, we wandered around the Tenjin area and happened to chance into this little indoor shopping street which still had some of the decoration left from a festival called Tanabata which is usually held in July.

After too many days of Japanese food, we decided to go for some tacos and soup for dinner.

On the last day, i met up with the Tokunagas. They picked me up at the train station and brought me to the Fukuoka city art museum where we spent the morning. It was a little strange initially to meet up with them after 6 years but Ruri, the daugther is still the same Ruri-chan i remembered. It was nice spending a lazy Friday afternoon catching up over lunch and coffee.
This is a me and Ruri at the Ohori koen.

The very dainty and yummy lunch we had. It was so pretty and everything was served in such small portion i had a hard time knowing where to begin eating :P

After lunch, they dropped me off at the station and it was the end of my city holiday. One week ago, it was such a feeling of liberation to be back in the city where everything is so much more convenient.Strangely though after a week living the hustling city life once more,this time i feel ready to head back to the island and begin life as the English teacher in my small town. I can handle the old house and whatever that comes with the whole package that is called JET program i supposed : )

posted by テレサ @ 11:06 PM