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<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n The first stop for us was Ohori Park, the largest park in\u00a0Fukooka which is\u00a0surrounded by a \u00a0lake. The lake provides habitat for a variety of koi fish (!), turtles and numerous kinds of birds.<\/p>\n Right next to Ohori Park are the Fukuoka Castle Ruins, featuring some middle-age Japanese buildings and an astonishing Ume Tree park.<\/p>\n Okay, now the Japanese sun is boiling your head, you need to cool down and get some food. What do you do? Exactly: Canal City. So we took the subway\u00a0to Canal City Mall\u00a0and the surrounding Yatai (street food parlors).<\/p>\n The inside of Canal City Mall\u00a0is a whole city within the city with (seriously) the most awesome architecture highlights i’ve ever seen,\u00a0omst noticably\u00a0Canal Fountain, where you\u00a0occasionaly can experience water\u00a0fountain shows with classical music, an experience as if you just entered the opera house for free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So we ate a bit, had our first beer, and from that point: Random Japan picture time!<\/p>\n The first day\u00a0exploring Fukuoka held so many amazing impressions, I hardly know where to start. After some amazing pancake breakfast at Hakata Station – the main train station and largest shopping mall in Fukuoka – we started hitting up random places\u00a0using mostly subway trains and busses. As one might expect from the Japanese, singns are … <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>