Kyushu, plainly.
Most English guides to Kyushu are written by people who spent four days here. This one is written from the other side. I grew up in Fukuoka and still go back, and everything here is checked against the operators' own pages before it is published.
What that changes is not the list of places. It is the twenty minutes you lose at a ticket machine, the reserved train that sold out two weeks ago, and the shuttle bus that starts later than the trains do. Every time and fare here carries its source and the date it was checked. Where a number could not be confirmed, the page says so instead of guessing.
Guides
- The first train from Tenjin to Fukuoka Airport (and whether you'll make a 6:30am flight) Same question, opposite answers — it depends which terminal you're flying from.
- Which IC card to buy at Fukuoka Airport — and when you don't need one If you already have Suica, the answer is: none. Plus the card that doesn't exist.
- Yufuin no Mori is sold out. Here's what actually gets you to Yufuin The train runs 2–3 times a day depending on the date. The bus runs 14.
- What a private driver in Kyushu actually costs Listed full-day charters are US$270–490. The real question is whether you need one.
- Itoshima, Takachiho and Kurokawa without a rental car Takachiho has four buses a day from Hakata. The gorge boat closes bookings two days out.
- Fukuoka Airport to Hakata with a group and big suitcases Only one airport bus says in writing that it has a luggage hold — and it doesn't go to Hakata.