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NORTHERN KYUSHU

By Lucy, founder of Souvenir, who travelled with her two kids (5 and 1)

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of a trip coming together. Here is the full itinerary below with all our insider notes.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Lush scenery, mountaintop shrines, ancient forests, tea fields and an active volcano
  • Visiting three very different ceramicists’ studios in Arita
  • Bathing in an onsen and experiencing a traditional ryokan
  • Learning about traditional lantern-making from an 8th generation maker that supplied Vivienne Westwood
  • A jaw-dropping playground park

"So many memories: a smiley fisherman's wife spotted us wandering around her town and offered us freshly barbecued oysters from her fire pit that were so huge, the shells longer than my shoe; lunch in a tiny restaurant, cooked with love for seasonal and wild, local produce; hunting down a zingy citrus fruit that only grows in Kyushu, used for its tasty pith!"
Kyushu

Kyushu

Days

9 Days

Stay

A traditional wooden Machiya, an Onsen hotel, a modern apartment, a country cabin

Best Age

3 to 12

Getting Around

Rental car. Kyushu also has an excellent train network.

When

The itinerary will the best from March – October

TRAVEL DAY

MORNING

We purchased our Shinkansen tickets at Kyoto station, where we'd spent a few days previously, and shopped for bento box lunch to take with us on the train. A couple of hours later we arrived at Hakata, the main terminal for Fukuoka city.

AFTERNOON

We walked to our apartment and had some downtime before heading out to explore our local
area and shop for provisions.

EVENING

Fukuoka is famous for its rich and creamy pork tonkotsu ramen. We headed for Ichiran which is one of the most well-known sites.

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