These areas are the trend-setters of Fukuoka and always catch people’s attention. Even the narrow backstreets are packed and busy all through the night with popular shops, ranging from boutiques, cafes and ramen noodles and motsunabe (pork offal hotpot) restaurants, that lead fashion and gourmet culture of Fukuoka. They are old and new at the same time, where you can find a century old factory of soy sauce and a Japanese confection shop with a lingering atmosphere of old days right next to the cutting edge retailers.