The nice woman in the information booth told us that our bank was at the far end of this passageway. There is a huge underground shopping and restaurant area, but there are also long passages that lead to exits near above ground facilities. We went to the bank and, as I said yesterday, we were unable to do our business. We also need to stop at a different bank at Hakata Station, so we took the subway back.
This is Hakata Station as seen from a second floor walk way. There are many stores and restaurants in the area and inside the station building. There are two large bookstores, both of which carry English books. One of my favorite places to stop is Tokyu Hands. They sell many things but I particularly like the section for tools and hobbies. I can easily kill an hour just wandering around in this section, to say nothing of the kitchen appliances, stationary, and gadgets sections. Since I was with my wife, we went to the kitchen appliances section and she bought a couple of small items. We then thought it was time for our Shinkansen home, so we went and bought tickets and then went up the platform.
On the platform we discovered that I had misread the schedule so instead of five minutes we had to wait half an hour. We found a seat and drank a Coke while we watched the other Shinkansen trains come and go. From here they go south to Kagoshima and northeast to Osaka. If you want to go passed Osaka, to Tokyo, for example, you have to change trains.
On the way home, our long ten minute ride, I had a window seat so I too some pictures. This is still downtown Fukuoka, but an area that contains mostly apartments as opposed to the commercial areas around the stations.
Getting close to home, you can see that the buildings are mostly one and two stories with only a scattering of taller apartment buildings.
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