We flew from the airport in Osaka to Fukuoka with Peach, a Japanese low-cost airline (we’ve also flown with them to Taiwan before). The flight lasted about an hour and a half, and everything airport-related was relatively quick – after all, it’s a domestic flight (and perhaps the fact that we flew in September helped too).
The trip from Fukuoka Airport to the central Hakata Station lasted 5 minutes on the Kuko line of the city’s subway system. For those of you who aren’t so fond of flying, you can also get to Hakata Station on the bullet train, the Shinkansen (you can go there with the JR Pass).
As for accommodation, we chose to stay in the luxurious Miyako Hotel Hakata, which is right opposite the central station. I highly recommend staying near the central station. It’s so much easier to move around from there to all parts of the city and beyond (and you’ll want to travel outside the city).
I won’t bore you with stories about a misunderstanding we had with the hotel receptionist when we were given a room with two single beds instead of a double bed, or her promise that we’d get a room with a double bed the following day… I only mention it here so that you can be smarter than us and ensure that the bed in the room you’ve booked is in fact a double when you book at a Japanese hotel.
We arrived in Fukuoka in the evening, checked into the hotel, unpacked quickly, and went to bed early to build up energy for the full, beautiful day we expected the following day.
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