Fukuoka (
福冈) is a port city of about 1.6 million on Kyushu's north coast and the closest major Japanese city to mainland China - about 900 km from Shanghai. It's famous for tonkotsu ramen (
豚骨拉面) and yatai street-food stalls, and the historical port of Hakata (
博多), which received tribute missions from China for over a thousand years, sits inside its city limits.
