Album: 2012 japan studytour public:part 5: Flight to Fukuoka and walking in Kokura | |
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Welcome sign at the airport: Fukuoka is on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan. |
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Fully packed at the airport |
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Views of Fukuoka from the plane |
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Pokemon airplane |
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fetching train reservations after arrival |
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We used the Shinkansen ("bullet train") quite a lot, here for the trip to Kokura |
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Its as convenient as it looks. |
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Stop sign near to a school, so colourful I had to take a picture again. |
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The 'Fuzuoka elementary school' we visited 2 years ago |
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The first afternoon we had no planned events, so time to walk through Kokura |
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Quite warm |
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turles in front of a pet shop |
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Motorbike shop |
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I like the combination of traditional and modern things |
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I did see this also at my last trip to Kokura - but this time learned that it houses a shopping mall |
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Inside the shopping mall |
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Anime fans |
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Front of the Taito station, those have all kinds of arcade games available |
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Trying out some games |
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Finally I was able to play this Taiko game again. A song is played, you have to hit the right place of the Taiko with the sticks. |
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toys |
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