Kawabata Street is located between Nakasu Kawabata Subway Station and Canal City Hakata. The famous Kushida Shrine is located here. It is within walking distance to the Nakasu and Tenjin Niotayadai area. The Hakata River next door gathers gourmet restaurants, and there are many cherry blossom viewing spots along the river. It is highly recommended to walk here to find food and cherry blossoms. There are also many cheap hotels and youth hostels nearby, so transportation and accommodation are very convenient.
How to get there: How to get to Kawabata Street?
Kawabatori Shopping Street is located next to Nakasu Kawabata Station on the Fukuoka Subway Airport Line. Exit 5 is the northern entrance of the shopping street. It takes only 4 stops and 9 minutes to reach the airport line from Fukuoka Airport.There are many office buildings, gourmet restaurants, and various lodgings around Nakasu Kawabata. Transportation and accommodation are very convenient.
Go to Fukuoka on the first day of the cherry blossom viewing trip, check in at noon next to the shopping streetKawabata Cold Spring Court Hotel, In the afternoon, starting from the food in the shopping street, from the south entrance of the shopping streetKushida Shrine, You can turn to Hakata River, walk along the road to visit many cherry blossom spots along the coast, and experience the well-known house culture of Nakasu. If you like to go shopping, the Canal City Hakata shopping mall next to it is also a good choice.
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▲ Next to the north entrance of Kawabata Street Shopping Street is Exit 5 of Nakasu Kawabata Subway Station.
▲ Kushida Shrine and Canal City Hakata are next to the south entrance of Kawabata Street.
The Hakata style of Kawabata Street Shopping Street
Kawabatori Shopping Street has more than 130 years of development history and a total length of about 400 meters. It is divided into two store organizations, Kawabata Central Shopping Street and Kamikawabata Shopping Street. The Kawabata Central Shopping Street Promotion Association (30 member stores) and Kamikawabata The Shopping Street Revitalization Association (100 member stores) is responsible for promoting the development of the business district, and regularly organizes activities such as the Drum Drum Festival, Gion Yamakasa, and special sales festivals every year.
Kawabatori Shopping Street is a pedestrian shopping street with a common light-transmitting and rain-shielding ceiling design in Japan. There is no need to worry about the sun and rain. It combines restaurants, clothing, groceries, jewelry, Buddhist tools and souvenir shops. The types of shops are diverse and there is no zoning plan. Various types of shops are mixed together. Anyway, the length of the shopping street is only about 400 meters, which is very suitable for sweeping the street and digging for treasures. There are even many youth lodgings suitable for backpackers in the shopping street.
When we first visited Kawabata-dori shopping street, we made a special trip to the owl coffee shop in the shopping street. It was rainy and rainy, and we did not visit the famous Kushida Shrine next to it. We directly enjoyed the barbecue commercial set meal at the nearby Daitoen restaurant. This time, taking advantage of the warmth of the sky, I visited Cold Spring Park and Kushida Shrine at the end of the shopping street. I also ate in the shopping street. By the way, I bought some fruit snacks and prepared for the next cherry blossom viewing picnic.
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▲ It is a favorite of many parents to go shopping on the flat grindstone road with shade and rain.
▲ A shop selling all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. It happens to be here to purchase fruits for cherry blossom viewing and picnic.
▲ Owl Coffee Shop, the goal of our first visit to Kawabata Street.
▲ Hakata’s famous Gion Yamakasa Festival and Dongda Drum Festival, Kawabata Street Shopping Street is one of the protagonists.
🎞️Additional scene: &AND Hostel youth hostel attached restaurant
After admiring the cherry blossoms in Cold Spring Park with our little burgers, we walked into the Kawabata Street Shopping Street to find a restaurant, ready to enjoy the long-lost Japanese cuisine, and saw a restaurant with a bar. The menu was exquisite and cheap, Wendy also If you can have a drink by the way, choose this restaurant. The meals are far more exquisite than Matsuya but the price is equally reasonable. In fact, this is a restaurant attached to a youth hostel called & AND Hostel. In addition to serving guests’ breakfast, it can also be served in the evening. It will be transformed into a multifunctional food space for bars.
This &AND Hostel is a chain of youth hostels based in Tokyo. The &AND Factory is responsible for the hostel operation and coversKanda,Akihabara,(I.e.,Asakusa,Kita AsakusaWait 5 places,FukuokaIt is the first base outside of Tokyo. It is a lodging experience that focuses on the concept of the Internet of Things. In fact, you will get a mobile phone with pre-installed APP when you check in. It can be used as a room key and can also control the room air conditioning, TV, curtains, and lighting. And other equipment.
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▲&AND Hostel has a restaurant attached to it.
▲ The price of the set menu is the same as that of the well-known Matsuya chain store, but the meals are more exquisite and rich.
▲ The attached restaurant has a bar counter design, which turns into a bar at night.
▲ The "young" little hamburger, just six months old, this was his first meal when he went abroad for the first time.
◎ Kawabata Street Shopping Street
– Address: 〒812-0026, XNUMX Kamikawabatacho, Hakata District, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
– Phone: +81 92-281-6223
– Official website: http://www.hakata.or.jp/
