Sunday, May 18, 2014

Tezca in Fukuoka

Tezca took his journey to the south part of Japan.

He had stayed at Fukuoka for 2days

DAY1 

Dazaifu

Dazaifu is a tourist city with long history, located in the central part of Fukuoka Prefecture. Historic sites such as Dazaifu Tenmangu which is dedicated to Sugawara Michizane, worshiped as "God of learning", attract many people year after year .


Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine

The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara Michizane who is known as the god of learning, it is busy all through the year with a lot of visitors praying for success in exams and academic achievement. 6000 plum trees are planted on the site and they start to decorate the shrine beautifully around early February to mid March. It is said there are 200 kinds of plum trees, which were dedicated to the shrine from the temples of all around the nation.





















Omikuji










Daikichi
excellent luck!




Tezca tied the written oracle to a tree in the precincts of the shrine.



worshiping







a well



Event for children was holding at the precincts of the shrine.


 Children who play a top.


Picking balls






The approach of the temple is always busy with many stalls selling popular local specialties such as Umegae-mochi(sweet rice cake with bean jam) which is associated with the plum trees.














at Dazaifu Station



At Kyushu National Museum
Asippa, Interactive learning center for Asian and European cultures.





Japanese chess



another chess


Tezca is wearing a costume of Europeans who visited Japan in Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600 CE)





Japanese toys



I found the same one with Mexican toy



Tezca tried "Monkiri-asobi"











at the night, we went Izakaya(Japanese style bar)





the restaurant's fish-tank



DAY 2

at a play park in Hakata.




Ojizo-san




at a restaurant

Hakata ramen
(Chinese noodle which was made originally in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, using a pork bone broth and thin noodles)


Tezca is holding decorations of Hakata Dontaku Festival.



At a resting room of  a day spa.






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