about 7 months ago - 1 comment
What can we say……WE LOVE FUTAMIGAURA BEACH!!! 二見ケ浦大好き!! We also love the Palm Beach Cafe,
which has the best location of all!!
If Fukuoka Talk were to rate all the beaches in and around Fukuoka, we would have to put Futamigaura in the number one position!!
about 7 months ago - No comments
There are lots of good music and guitar stores in Fukuoka, Japan. Right in Tenjin there are three that come to mind. The first two are right next to each other. One is in the Tenjin Core building on the 7th floor, and the second one is right next door in the IMS building. More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
This picture was taken outside of URAS in Fukuoka, Japan. Uras is a car shop that specializes in Drifting and is owned and operated by Nomura Ken, also known as NOMUKEN. NOMUKEN is a professional drifter that drives in the Japanese D1 Series and has drifted all over the world from Europe to the United More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Nishi Nippon Newspaper 西日本新聞
The Nishi Nippon Newspaper is Kyushu’s most popular newspaper and the best source for news from Fukuoka and Western Japan. Unfortunately, there isn’t an English Edition and if you want to get the news from this newspaper you will have to break out your Kanji Dictionary and start translating! They do have More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
What is a Bounenkai?
First let us break down the meaning of the world by defining the Kanji (Borrowed Chinese Characters).
忘= Forget
年= Year
会= Meet
So as you can see from the Kanji definitions the word Bounenkai is a “Forget The Year Party”. The cool thing about Bounenkai’s in Japan is that you usually get to go to More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
A good friends of mine over at 808Talk the site that inspired this one made a little Flickr mashup. The idea of this mashup (a program or site using programming API’s to create something new. Like Google maps and Flickr combined to form a unique site) was to give a zooomed in view of a More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Our friends over at URAS turned a usual “Jiisan” (old mans car) car into a VIP Drift Car. It took them a couple months to finish it and the biggest problem they had was the wiring. Unlike a lot of American turners that just scrap the wiring and run a stand alone computer system to More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Misia is a Japanese R&B artist that was born and raised in Fukuoka. Misia is all of 153cm (5 Feet), but packs a voice of a person three times here size. Her trademark is her dreadlocked hair and her powerful soulful voice. I was lucky enough to catch one of her amazing concerts at the More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Recently, a friend of mine in Tokyo was talking about the Hachiko Statue in Tokyo. He was telling me that it was the best and easiest land mark or meeting place in Tokyo. Of course I knew this and knew of the statue and the story very well. It got me thinking as to what More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Here is a video I made a while back of a drive through Fukuoka City.
