Fukuoka City

Wall stones part neatly, west and east.

Genko Borui, Ikinomatsubara area

Photo by 震天動地 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Korokan Site

A dig for a stadium renovation confirmedthe remains of an ancient guest hall.

Korokan (鴻臚館) was an ancient guest hall for welcoming foreign visitors. It was set up in three places, Heian-kyo, Naniwa and Tsukushi, and the city explains that remains have been confirmed only in Fukuoka. In December 1987 an excavation linked to renovating Heiwadai Baseball Stadium confirmed the remains, and the site was designated a National Historic Site in 2004.

Remains from five phases, late 7th to mid-11th century
Excavation for the stadium renovation, December 1987
National Historic Site (designated 2004)

02 ／ Hobashira-ishi of Najima

A stone with a legend of a ship's mastis a fossil tree in nine pieces.

Najima's Hobashira-ishi (名島の檣石) is petrified wood on the shore within Najima Shrine, made from a trunk of the oak genus Quercus. Lying in strata about 35 million years old, nine blocks run in a straight line about 15 m long, and are almost submerged at high tide. A legend says the mast of Empress Jingu's ship turned to fossil, and it is also called Hobashira-ishi (帆柱石, "mast stone").

Strata about 35 million years old
Nine blocks lined up over 15 m
National Natural Monument (designated 1934)

03 ／ Gion Yamakasa of Orono Island

The float is taken down right after the eve,its decorations kept a year in each home.

Orono Island (小呂島, Oronoshima) is the northernmost and westernmost point of Fukuoka City, and its Gion Yamakasa is held every July 15 as a festival of the local guardian shrine, Shichisha Shrine (七社神社). The carrying poles number three. The float's decorations are displayed in each home for a year to ward off evil, and flags bearing fishing boats' names serve as the boats' charms.

Held every July 15
Three carrying poles
City Intangible Folk Cultural Property

Living here

It is 144 minutes to Osaka and 292 to Tokyo.

about 1,610,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

Hakata Station on the Shinkansen is in the city's Hakata Ward; the Nozomi No. 1 leaves Tokyo at 6:00 and reaches Hakata at 10:52. The city has seven wards: Higashi, Hakata, Chuo, Minami, Jonan, Sawara and Nishi. Orono Island in Nishi Ward is about 65 minutes by the city ferry from Meinohama Ferry Terminal.

People living here: 1,612,392people
Area: 343.47km²
Households: 831,124households
Rent (average for rentals): 56,947yen
Healthcare: 115 hospitals ／ 1693 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —203 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Fukuoka City in Japan33.590°N 130.402°E

to TokyoTokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen292min
to NagoyaTokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen197min
to OsakaSanyo Shinkansen144min

Travel times follow JR西日本「JRおでかけネット」区間時刻表『東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り』（2026年9月29日のダイヤ。本体が保存した $SP/jr-shinkansen-down-20260929.json の『東京・名古屋・新大阪発』と『博多着』の行から計算）。下り区間時刻表 https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/1796 は第1段が2026-09-30に開いて確かめた (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 12 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Fukuoka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

49.8km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 糸島市, 那珂川市, 粕屋町, 志免町, 春日市, 大野城市, 久山町, 宇美町, 新宮町
Saga Prefecture: 佐賀市, 神埼市, 吉野ヶ里町

Fukuoka City isthis kind of town.

01The Genko Borui (元寇防塁) is a stone wall (ishitsuiji) that the Kamakura shogunate had built along Hakata Bay's coast in Kenji 2 (1276), and a National Historic Site. In the Ikinomatsubara section in Nishi Ward, the stones are pegmatite on the west side and sandstone on the east, and the city says this may mark the areas assigned to Hizen and Higo.
02On Shikanoshima in Higashi Ward stands the place where a farmer is said to have found the gold seal (漢委奴國王) in 1784; the gold seal, a National Treasure, is displayed at the Fukuoka City Museum. The Minamimaru Tamon-yagura (南丸多聞櫓) at the Fukuoka Castle site, nationally designated, was dismantled and restored over two and a half years from 1972.
03The Fukuoka Castle moat is where Cyperus ohwii (ツクシオオガヤツリ, Tsukushi-ogayatsuri) was first found in the world in 1906 (Meiji 39), and it still grows there as a prefectural natural monument. The plant has also been found in ponds elsewhere in the city.

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fukuoka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗