How this site
decides

thingstodofukuoka.com exists to resolve one Fukuoka or Kyushu decision per page and commit to an answer. Every verdict starts from the same place: the real yen price, the exact train or subway that reaches it, the hour of day that changes the experience, and whether a paid tour beats simply turning up.

Where a tour only sells a driver and a narration for something that is free to enter or a five-minute subway away, we say so. Where it genuinely unlocks a place — a Takachiho gorge that public transport reaches badly, a yatai crawl that solves the cash-only, no-reservations, no-English failure modes — we say that too.

If you want a ranked “top 20 things to do” list with no verdict attached, this is the wrong site — every page here commits to an answer, which means it will sometimes tell you to skip something you were looking forward to. The Fukuoka Tourist City Pass page is a straight ‘skip’, and we show the arithmetic rather than soften it.

It is also not a live booking engine. Prices move, ticket windows change, ferries and trains re-time, and after the July 2026 Kumamoto earthquake some southern Kyushu routes have been changing month to month. Every page shows the date its facts were last checked, but the operator’s own page is always the final word on price and availability on the day you travel.

Prices are collected from operators’ own published rates and posted fares. This site publishes no star ratings, review counts or booking counts — not its own and not a provider’s — because they move weekly and a printed copy is stale by construction. None appear in its structured data either.

Where a fact is genuinely disputed or moving — which southern Kyushu lines are running after the earthquake, whether a seasonal wisteria or oyster window is open — we date it and say it is provisional rather than pick the answer that reads more cleanly. That is a deliberate limit, not an omission.

A page whose facts have been re-checked says so under its headline — “Facts checked” and the date — and ends with a Sources box listing what it was checked against. We prefer primary sources: the venue’s or operator’s own site, Fukuoka City Subway, Nishitetsu and JR Kyushu for fares and service status, Fukuoka City and Prefecture, the Japan National Tourism Organization and Japanese government agencies for rules. A page without that stamp shows the date the site was last updated instead and has not been through a dated check — treat its prices as a guide and confirm on the linked official page.

What we deliberately do not publish. Opening hours: they change too often for a printed copy to stay right, so every venue page links to Google Maps instead, which shows today’s times. Ratings and review counts from TripAdvisor, Google, Klook or GetYourGuide: they move weekly and are not ours to restate.

If a price, a fare, a train status or a verdict on this site is out of date or mistaken, email [email protected] with the page and what changed. We check it against the source and fix the page; a confirmed correction moves that page’s “Facts checked” date.

This site earns from some of the booking links on it — see the affiliate disclosure for exactly how that works and what it does not change.

thingstodofukuoka.com is an independent guide, one of the Uncompromised Travel city sites (the footer links the others). It is not affiliated with Fukuoka City, any tourism board, or any venue or operator it covers, and no one pays to be included.

We count visits and clicks on outbound links with Google Analytics 4 (page views are sent through Cloudflare) to learn which pages help and which links people use. There are no ads, no accounts and no sign-up forms on this site.