Into Fukuoka city

 We needed to stop at our bank so my wife and I decided to go into the city, going to the bank and then having lunch and doing a little shopping. The Shinkansen train that arrived at the HakataMinami Station was one of the new streamlined types.

 Inside there were two seats on either side of the aisle. The older trains had two seats on one side and three on the other. Since the width of the trains is about the same because they use the same tunnels, having only four seats across means that they are bigger and more comfortable. Of course that really does not matter on our nine minute trip. At the front of this car, the first in the train, there is a mockup of the control room for kids to sit in and pretend that they are driving the train. My grandson loves it.

At the station we went up to the second floor outside walkway so that we could get to the bank which is across a couple of fairly main streets. As usual at Japanese train stations, there were a large number of taxis lined up waiting for fares.