A trip into Fukuoka City

 This is the pedestrian bridge from the Station Building to the Shinkansen platform. My wife and I are on our way to visit a bank in downtown Fukuoka.

 The Shinkansen has just pulled into the station. This is the train that takes us into Fukuoka in only 10 minutes. However, except for the rush hours, there is only one train an hour.

 At Hakata Station, we went to the lowest level and took the subway to Tenjin Station. The bank is quite near the station but we do not know where.

We walked through the underground shopping area and found this stained glass picture. The black sign is for Doutor, a chain of inexpensive coffee shops. They have pretty good sandwiches. The blue sign is for the subway that we just left. The white sign is general directions for the trains. We finally decided not to try to find the bank on our own and instead went looking for an Information Kiosk. We quickly found one and the woman in it gave us directions without even looking at her reference material. The bank probably has a lot of foreigners looking for it since it is part of an American chain but it is not on most of the maps. The directions were perfect and we found the bank within a few meters of the last subway exit. However, we found that we needed a different hanko, name stamp, so we had to leave and will go back again later.