16. KOKURA

Hotel room, view from the window (one night).

I keep the Okinawa short trousers in my bag and went out.

Kokura (also named Kita Kyushu) is an industrial harbour.

It was the first target in World War Two although got save due to the weather.

 

It is also the link from Kyushu to Honshu.

 

 

 And a modern city with singular buildings.

Lord Hosokawa Tadaoki built this castle in 1602.

 

It is the town of Musashi, famous samurai, author also of "the book of five rings".

 

Friendly way to advertise very common in Japan.

It keeps a medieval atmosphere on its urbanistic structure with narrow streets that kept the name of guilds.
It is not worthy to show them now, so I choose the toriis of entrance to Tsukimi Tei shrine wiew from the top of the castle.

Into the castle there are some pieces of interest and an small theater that reports about the city in a fun way.

These girls were enjoying a nice spring day under the sakura.

Matsumoto Seicho wrote more than 400 books, crime fiction style. This huge Museum is dedicated to him.

So there are flowers, nature.

And as far as I know in proportion to its size the most industrial city I have ever seen in Japan.

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