Attractions · Fukuoka

Things to do in Fukuoka.

A tower, an aquarium and teamLab in the city; the onsen towns of Oita as its day trips.

234 metres over Hakata Bay on the Momochi waterfront, lit up at night.

How to book: Tickets online or at the door.

The Kyushu aquarium on the sandbar: dolphins and sea lions performing with the bay behind the tank.

How to book: Tickets online or at the door.

The catch-and-collect digital forest inside the E-ZO complex beside the baseball Dome.

How to book: Timed tickets online.

The entertainment tower by the Dome: teamLab, a rooftop tube slide and the baseball museum.

How to book: Each attraction tickets separately online.

The city's lake park: boats, a Japanese garden, and the art museum on the south shore.

How to book: Free; the Japanese garden charges a small fee.

Hakata's guardian shrine, home of the Gion Yamakasa festival floats, displayed all year.

How to book: Free.

The shrine of the god of learning, thirty minutes out: plum trees, exam prayers and umegae mochi.

How to book: Free; trains run from Tenjin and Hakata.

The great stone walls above Ohori Park, cherry blossom country in spring.

How to book: Free.

The onsen towns of Oita in one day: Yufuin's lake street and Beppu's steaming jigoku hells.

How to book: Full-day tours from Hakata.

Slow punts down the canals of the water city, an hour south of Fukuoka.

How to book: Boat tickets at the boarding piers; tours from Fukuoka bundle the famous eel lunch.

The great caldera's grasslands and, when the volcano allows, the crater itself.

How to book: Full-day tours from Fukuoka or Kumamoto; crater access depends on gas levels.

Planning the stay itself: the city guides cover what is on, and the hotels page covers where to sleep near it.