'elloooo
We landed in Hakata airport, Fukuoka, Japan on the 24th of March in the morning. First thing we did? Got ourselves a hired car to start our road trip of course! Then it's off to go and enjoy some yummy fresh cooked oysters!
Apparently we arrived during the oyster season so my friend had pretty much made it a must to go and have these yummy oysters! Well if you're going to be enjoying these fresh seafood then we must also have ourselves some beer. Since it is also cherryblossom season, a lot of the packaging is cherryblossom printed including this little Asahi beer can. If you are down south in Fukuoka and are interested in cooking your own fresh oysters and other variety of seafood then take a look at the links below for the little hut we went to.
This was a surprise discovery. Originally after brunching on oyster we were to keep driving south to our first place of stay and well I had wanted to go to Tanada Rice Terrace but the weather was dearily and so the photos turned out not as nice as the ones you see floating around the web. Still when we got there and saw this little monument, I just had to take a picture. There is actually a few of these Yumi Katsura Lover's Sanctuary placed all around Japan and we found ours in the south. These were placed in order to bring about awareness of the declining birthrate. If you can read Japanese or have google translate please go check out their website on the link at the bottom of this post and maybe next time you're in Japan you can take a look and see where your closest Yumi Katsura Love Sanctuary monument is.
For our first night we stayed in a little onsen village in Saga. Our ryokan of choice was Ryokan Oomuraya. We had a Japanese traditional meal which is also known as Kaiseki, using the most in season ingredients to create a course meal for the guest to enjoy. The onsens were amazing and perfect to start our road trip adventures, and their private onsen were great too!
Well that was day one of our road trip adventures in Fukuoka, Japan.
A.
Related Links:
