The "Kokura Castle bamboo light" event, enveloping the castle in warm light, is being held around the main keep of Kokura Castle in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Many visitors are ...

Alight at Kokura Station to explore the rugged charms of Kitakyushu, a powerhouse of a port city that gave birth to Japan’s modern steel industry in the early 1900s and remains a key industrial hub – ...

In the Fukuoka prefecture in southwestern Japan today sits a city named Kitakyushu. It was founded only in 1963, combining five smaller towns in the region. One of these was called Kokura. Kitakyushu ...

Kokura Castle in Kitakyushu City is adorned by around 300 cherry trees planted in Katsuyama Park. Visitors took photos of the scene despite cooler than usual temperatures and a later bloom than ...