Day Two in Fukuoka

First order of business on our second day at Fukuoka was to find Ohori Park and the Japanese Garden. We had a handy map of the main areas in Fukuoka that showed us the way. What this map lacked was a scale and after endless walking and crossing two rivers we were wondering if we were even close to it. We tried asking for directions but it didn't help since I was able to ask but not able to understand the directions. We did understand when he said "walking?". We knew we were a long ways away. After an hour of walking we stopped for lunch since we didn't know how much longer we had. Another half hour later we saw a sign that guided us to Ohori park. The Japanese gardens were worth the hour and a half walk. When we first got there, we were the only ones in them so we had a lot of time to take these wonderful pictures. Here are some of them, if you want to see tons more click on Our Yahoo! Photos link.








Next on our to do list was to find the Fukuoka Costco. We knew it was a little ways away so we took the subway until the end of the line and took a taxi from there. Twenty-three dollars later we were in the middle of nowhere; suburbia with a giant Costco in the middle of it.

I was specifically looking for scrapbook albums, a couple of familiar food items and also wanted to take advantage of the cheap photo center. We had no luck with the scrapbook albums but we did find some macaroni and cheese and parmesan cheese and were able to print our digital pics really cheap. The mac n' cheese we got because it is non-existant in Japanese supermarkets and the parmesan was so cheap compared to supermarkets here. We did realize how much you need a car to shop at a place like this. These are pretty much the only things that we could carry. It must have looked pretty funny to see us walking around with this giant box of mac n cheese on the trains.....such foreigners! Nick really wanted to buy some of the frozen foods such as chicken patties and chimichangas but without a car or a cooler we were unable to do so.

(Guess what we had for lunch today...yummy!)

We had dinner at Costco's quality food stand. Dinner consisted of a hot dog, a slice of pizza and ice cream for each of us. I think everyone was staring at us and placing bets to see if we would eat it all, which we did (except for the bad part of the pizza).
After our large dinner we decided to head on to the train station and call it a day. It was a great weekend trip. I'm sure we'll be back soon.