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Four seasons of Fukuoka
Glittering Winter of Fukuoka
Fukuoka is a part of the southern island of Japan and you may think it is a warm place. Actually, the cold breeze from the Japan Sea makes it snow sometimes.
The city of Fukuoka is illuminated with Christmas decorations and filled with a lively atmosphere from late-November to Christmas day.
New year’s visit to the shrine (1st – 3rd of January) that people make their wishes for the new year, attracts many worshippers to the shines, including Kushida Shrine, Sumiyoshi Shrine and Hakozaki Shrine. Visit there in the New Year. The New Year opening sale and bargains are held from January 2nd at the shopping facilities and areas in the city such as Tenjin and Hakata Station. A discount is applied to all sorts of items, mostly outfits, making it a great opportunity for shopping at low prices at this time of the year.
Moreover, two festivals are held in January at Toka Ebisu Shrine and in February at Kushida Shrine. At Toka Ebisu festival you can pray for business success, and at the Setsubun festival, Tochoji Temple invites happiness and tells us when spring has come. Both are unique Japanese festivals and will give you a lot of fun!
New Year’s Visit to the Shrines in Fukuoka
New Years are an important event for Japanese.
From around the midnight of New Year's eve to the 3rd of January, people go out with family or friends to visit a shrine and pray for the health and happiness through the year.
The most popular shrines in Fukuoka includes Sumiyoshi Shrine, Kush...
Setsubun Festival
The 3rd of February, the traditional last day of winter, people visit Kushida shrine to pray and get rid of bad luck. Going through the Otafuku face (smiling face of a woman) installed on the shrine gate, you will see not only people throwing beans but also devils dancing and monsters paying visi...
Christmas – the streets of Fukuoka twinkles with Christmas lights
Christmas lights color the whole town of Fukuoka in December.
Christmas trees and ornaments twinkle and gorgeous-looking Christmas cakes and Christmas gifts are displayed at department stores and fashion stores in Tenjin, the biggest shopping district of Fukuoka, at Canal City Hakata, the popula...
Hatsuuri／Bargain
If you would like to enjoy shopping in Fukuoka, wait till “Bargain” time in January and July!
“Bargain” is a sale of all kinds of items from clothing, household goods to interior goods with a discount of 10-70 %.
In Japan, the first sale of New Year’s holiday is called “hatsuuri”, or an openi...
