Lonely planet guide says bad stuff about this city and the guide i got (Fodor’s) don’t even care on mention it… ok, it is an industrial city and has little of the traditional turist is specting to view, but maybe it is worth giving it a chance..
this city has a population over 1,000,000. it was created in 1963 when these 5 cities where merged together: Moji, Kokura, Wakamatsu, Yahata and Tobata. althrought, most of the people keeps thinking in these names instead of visualizing kitakyushu as a whole.
Kokura is the main urban center and for centuries was the crossing line between kyushu and honshu islands. It has a famus castle just beside a shopping mall. In 1945 kokura escaped from the atomic bomb because it was cloudy and the american bomber headed to the second target instead: nagasaki.
Moji is the link with honshu island, where there are a bridge and tunnel that comunicate both islands. also ferrys to osaka and other places depart from there. In march 2006 an airport constructed over the sea will be finished. in Mojiko Retro there are some nice buildings to see and of course shopping and souvenirs.
Wakamatsu, as i mention before is famous because its bridge that links with tobata. there are some beaches and also the kitakyushu science and research park is located here.
In tobata you can find the famous “space world”, a park with roller costers and some other shows. also here you can find the art museum of kitakyushu.
Yahata is a nice place just below of mount sarakura, where this picture was taken aiming to orio station, of course there is some fog, anyway in the horizon you can’t see nothing because there is nothing but the sea.
Of course every place has its own identity and own matsuri(festival).
In short, kitakyushu is the best touristic city of north kyushu 
Turisting Kitakyushu, part 1 (Mojiko Retro)
Turisting Kitakyushu, part 2 (Mt. Sarakura)
Mt.Sarakura at Night
Turisting Kitakyushu, part 3 (Municipal Art Museum)
Turisting Kitakyushu, part 4 (Kurosaki)
Turisting Kitakyushu, part 5 (Kokura Castle)
Kokura Station
Sea Food in Kitakyushu
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Hi, can you add another good point? We can have good food especially seafood. I love it!
i like food here, there are many options of what to choose. i will try seafood. i ate some strange fish, and i have the pics to prove it, i’ll upload them some other day.
then i’d like you to add that point BUT with some saefood pictures:))
i ate seafood today! that fish is nothing comparing to what i ate today.. it was strange but delicious. wait for the picts