My favorite spot is Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka City.

I would like to introduce Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, one of the towns where I was born and raised.

Japan’s three major Hachiman and Hakozaki shrines are located, and the Japanese military commander Hideyoshi Toyotomi has a history of holding a tea ceremony in Hakozaki.

Hakozaki shrines(筥崎宮)

This time, I’m not talking about such major things, but about one cultural event.

My friend says, “Hakozaki has an incense smell.”

There is a part of memory that is unclear. I’m sorry if I made a mistake.

There are many Jizo in Hakozaki.

Jizo is said to be the guardian deity of children in Japanese culture.

Many people worshiped Jizo and offered incense sticks.

Every July, there is an event where children offer incense sticks.

I checked the Jizo Festival “doll decoration” that is held in Hakozaki every July.(Japanese site)

箱崎で毎年7月に行われている地蔵まつり「人形飾り」を調べてみた。

Certainly, at this time, the smell of incense sticks can be found all over the town.

When I was a kid, this festival was called “offering incense stick(Senko-Sashi 線香差し)”.

When children offer incense sticks, adults give sweets.

I think it’s different from Halloween, but you can get sweets together.

There were Jizo in various places in the olden days.

A stone in the corner of Hakozaki Shopping Street called Kinshai Dori.

It used to be a very lively shopping street, but in recent years it has become very lonely.

There are always offerings here as well.

※Kinshai is a dialect of Fukuoka.

Kinshai means come on.

I remember that there were many Jizo here, but I don’t know what happened.

Isn’t it common in every country to thank and worship the guardian deity?

There must have been a lot of Jizo in Hakozaki, but this time I’ll leave this alone.

Introducing Hakozaki’s charms other than Jizo

1.Okyuto

Okyto is said to be a seaweed processed food that originated in Hakozaki and was born in the Edo period.

Hayashi-Ryuzo Shoten(林隆三商店)

2.Ramen

Since there was Kyushu University in Hakozaki, there were many ramen shops.

Ramen noodles that are cheap and full are becoming popular, and some of shop have become famous.

This ramen shop called “Shunyoken” is a long-established store still operating in Hakozaki, where Kyushu University moved.

3.Location of the drama

One of the most popular police and action dramas in Japan, “The Western Police (Seibu-Keisatsu)” was filmed in Hakozaki.

My grandfather went to see the drama location.

Reference video

西部警察 PARTⅠセレクション 大門BOX1 TVスポット 30.Ver

I hear that the scenery in this area is almost the same as it was at that time.

Hakozaki has more places to introduce, but this time it’s here.

Would you like to take a look again at the place where you grew up?

If you look at it from an adult’s point of view, you may see something else!

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@yamamo_cchi さん

面白い風習と文化をご紹介いただきありがとうございます!香を出してお菓子をもらう仕組み、面白いですねえ。言われている通りハロウィンをイメージしますがはじめて聞きました。

ラーメン屋も素敵ですね。そういったシンプルなラーメン、大好きです :yum:

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@HiroyukiTakisawa さん

私も初めて参加したときはびっくりしました。

こちらはいたずらじゃないですが、線香を供えて敬意を払う(ちなみに何に敬意かは覚えておりません)と駄菓子ですがお菓子をもらえます。

春陽軒は箱崎で廃業せずに続いている数少ない店舗のうちの1つです。

日曜日もやっている個人的におすすめのお店です。

このお店だけかもしれません、昔から箱崎で健在なのは。

箱崎のラーメン店は海苔が入るのが特徴です、昔は海苔の養殖も盛んでして、私の祖父も海苔工場を持っておりました。

http://www.nishitetsu.co.jp/museum/library/04/113.html

の網屋町電停付近、小さいですが載っています。

全国的に有名な「だるま」も九大前電停写真に載っています。

これも箱崎生まれのラーメン店です。

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@yamamo_cchi さん

海苔ってのってることもありますがそれほど気にしたことがありませんでした。そういった地域柄というのもあるんですねえ。

ちなみに私は岩海苔が好きで、扱っているお店に行くとついつい注文してしまいます。

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幼少のときにラーメンに海苔は当たり前という感じで育ったので、他所でのりが入っていなかったことにびっくりしたものです。

次第に海苔が取れるエリアだからなど地域柄と気づくようになりました。

岩のり、いいですね~

私も好きですよ!

Hello @yamamo_cchi ,

I just wanted to say that your post has a Japanese language label. Please note that I’m going to remove the label because you didn’t write in the Japanese language.

Please take a look at the How do I find posts in my preferred language? article, where you can find how to use language labels and search for posts in your preferred language.

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