04/07/09 TUESDAYAfter a late night, we woke up late for Hakata. We ate lunch at the hostel and made our way by Shinkansen to Hakata. Known for it's mobile food stalls called Yatai. There were other things that we went to see as well - garden, temple, and malls. The only problem was that by the time we got to the garden and temple, they were closed only by a few minutes before we arrived. And then the one mall that was highly recommended in one of our guides was completely shut down and secluded. I don't know what happened there. The other malls we went to check out were sad malls, nothing close to the extravagant malls in Kyoto or Kashiwa. But we did see an indoor snowboarding arena.
We were truly hoping that Hakata had something great to offer with their food stalls :) The brochure said that there were up to 2,000 existing food stalls along the river near Tenjin.
Honestly, we didn't see more than 20 maybe. We ate at 2 food stalls. At the first food stall, we had Hakata ramen, and oden (a traditional winter dish of different components - tofu cakes, fish cakes, and cabbage wrapped pork in a broth). The ramen was good, not as good as Ippudo, and the Oden was tasty. The 2nd stall, we had grilled Wagyu beef, and sardine. Beef was tasty, and the sardine was excellent!
We left Hakata a little later than we thought on the Shinkansen train. We missed the last local bus and had to walk back to the hostel :( Took about 45 minutes walk..so sad. I guess we had good exercise right?
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