Journey to the East: Day 5 Fukuoka

We got up early for an early flight to Fukuoka.  We were exhausted.  The taxi driver was chatty. We had time to have some McDonald's breakfast before boarding the plane.  

Before noon, we landed in Fukuoka.  I had to use my Japanese right the way.  It is always polite to ask if they speak English before speaking English to them anyway.  It took us a few minutes to get all the SIMs working, we validated our rail pass and went into town.  The Fukuoka tourist board keeps trying to sell us chive offal hot pots...

We were early to the hotel, so we just went to the hotel and dropped of the luggage then found some food. With limited brain power, I went to the chain beef bowl place, somewhere with little thinking required.

We found enough energy to take a local train to go to the Buddha, which was nice.  We came back the long way and went to another chain restaurant, more Japanese required.