{"id":29974,"date":"2019-09-15T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=29974"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:50:56","slug":"11-days-in-chugoku-kyushu-day-01-fukuoka-rakusuien-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/09\/15\/11-days-in-chugoku-kyushu-day-01-fukuoka-rakusuien-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Days in Ch\u016bgoku & Kyushu \u2013 Day 01 \u2013 Fukuoka \u2013 Rakusuien Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other garden that also receives some praise online is Rakusuien Garden<\/strong>. The place is about a ten minute walk from Hakata Station. But as luck would have it, my place of stay \u2014 The Royal Park Fukuoka Hotel \u2014 is roughly just under halfway along this route, so Rakusuien was included right from my early versions of the itinerary as a ready-to-go anytime filler activity.<\/p>\n

I swung by for a visit in the late afternoon, just 30 minutes before its 5PM closing time, initially a little worried that I’d barely have enough time to give the place justice. My fears turned out to be unfounded: Rakusuien is tiny.<\/strong><\/em> There’s a small pond that’s the centerpiece of the garden, but the path that goes around it can easily be completed in about 2 minutes \u2014 and that’s if you’re walking leisurely. The admission fee to get in is a very modest \u00a5<\/span>100\/SGD1.30, and there are half a dozen very large koi that have been long conditioned to fearlessly approach with mouths opened wide, expecting food from humans.<\/p>\n

But the small size of Rakusuien itself is just one part of the problem: the garden simply isn’t as beautiful as Ohori Park’s, with little evidence of the kind of careful landscaping evident in the latter. Some Google reviewers have also commented on the rudeness of the ticket seller, and that the garden has a smell. The elderly gentleman was OK for me \u2014 but I’m on my best and most polite behavior whenever I’m visiting someone else’s country \u2014 and I didn’t detect any foul odors either.<\/p>\n

All said, the garden is a tranquil place to catch a break. Just keep your expectations low.<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/strong>: If you have the time to spare, it’s on your way, and you have a couple of \u00a5<\/span>100 coins to spare \u2014 sure, why not. Otherwise, skip this and check out Ohori Park’s Japanese Garden instead.<\/p>\n

Next post on my early evening exploration of Fukuoka City<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other garden that also receives some praise online is Rakusuien Garden. The place is about a ten minute walk from Hakata Station. But as luck would have it, my place of stay \u2014 The Royal Park Fukuoka Hotel \u2014<\/p>\n

Read More 11 Days in Ch\u016bgoku & Kyushu \u2013 Day 01 \u2013 Fukuoka \u2013 Rakusuien Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[661,608,613],"class_list":["post-29974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-chugoku-kyushu-japan-2019","tag-sony-a7-iii","tag-sony-fe-24-105mm-f4-0","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blog-2019-japan-chugoku-kyushu-day-01-A7_06988.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38504,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions\/38504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}