Monday, August 13, 2012

road trip! part 2: fukuoka!

 off to fukuoka!
i slept in my car at a parking lot at the onsen.
needed to be on the freeway by 4AM but woke up at 3:30
drove real fast. 

 fukuoka is famous for ramen
(you knew that already)
this shopping mall had a floor dedicated to it

everyone told me to eat a bowl for them,
so i made sure to eat ramen as often as i could 
in the three short days i was in fukuoka

 bowl one:

 actually this was bowl two, 
didn't take a pic of the first bowl


 bowl three:
 fukuoka was actually a really big city!
almost up there with tokyo and osaka, 
so most of my time in fukuoka was spent roaming the city
that night, actually, that whole day,
my buddy was sick so i didn't have anyone to hang out with
no problem! 
wandered the city through the day, 
and looked for a tiny izakaya at night.

 
came across this spot, with a counter for about 6 people
and ended up staying there til 4am, hahaha

 they were good people! real good people!
totally enjoying life

ate a nabe by myself, it was small, promise.
but it was soooo good
mentaiko motsu nabe. bomb bomb bomb


went across the street for bowl four:
 this girl was working there but ended up getting off early
and sat and ate with us!
she kept making fun of me for eating a soloing a nabe, haha

 the next day Tsugeru and his brother Aogu
came out to hang out!

this is where we had bowl five:
 they knew all the good spots to shop,
so we ended up shopping all day. 
didn't buy much tho, but it was good fellowship

 told them i was into bicycles so we walked all day
trying to find this place 
ended up being pretty cool, small bike shop

 went to that girl's cafe the next day
(her name is Kanako [for my future reference])


 she was on break as we rolled in, which worked out all right


went to praise team practice

 then hit the beach!
it was cool, they had all these stands out and places to grill

 this is Tsugeru and Aogu's father's church
they were kind enough to let me stay here :)

 aaaand that was fukuoka! 
good times! i wish i had more money!





2 comments:

Unknown said...

You went to Fukuoka by your car? How long did it take? Anyway I've been wanted to visit there for a long time, so I'm JEALOUS lol

maxdesu said...

yeah man! it took a long time but it was a lot of fun. i went to hiroshima first, then to fukuoka! i wanted to go deeper into kyuushuu but i had no money..