More at Hakata Station

 This is a bread shop that sells mostly single serving pieces of bread that have all sorts of things in them or on them. People buy one or two and a bottle of tea and eat them for lunch. Some of them are things that Westerners would never think of, for example, potato salad, fried noodles, or other things we do not normally eat with bread, another starch.

 At the far end of this hall you can just see the wickets and above them the schedule of arriving and departing trains.

 This is a souvenir shop. People almost always buy packages of some sort of sweets and give them to coworkers, friends and family. Giving small gifts when going someplace or returning is an extremely common practice in Japan.

This is the Shinkansen platform. The little room is air conditioned and you can sit inside where it is cool while you wait for your train. On the floor below this, there is a much larger, air conditioned room where you can sit in comfort, but we usually come up here for some reason.