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sabina
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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:30 am Post subject: Fukuyama/Hiroshima |
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| Can anyone give me some information on Fukuyama? (Besides the basic info that one can easily find on the internet...) I'd like to find out if there are good stores/markets/restaurants/nightlife/bars/clubs/expat community...and if not, where are (nearby) places that have those things. Any recommendations are most welcome! |
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ciccone_youth
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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I was just in Fukuyama last week for a business trip. Are you coming here to work with Peppy Kids Club by any chance? They were missing teachers so I had to cover in the area.
Fukuyama is a small city. There's everything you need but it's small. It has a beautiful castle. I don't know about the nightlife, I mostly wandered around during the day. It has a foreigner community, and at least one gaijin bar. The shopping is great, a few department stores and the usual 'big city' shops you find everywhere else in Japan. It's pretty nice and clean, and near the water. I was actually staying in a beautiful small city called Onomichi, which is stunning.
Hiroshima is about an hour away from there, Hiroshima is amazing, one of my favourite cities in Japan.
I wrote a blog post about my stay in Fukuyama:
http://vivianlostinseoul.blogspot.com/2010/11/around-hiroshima.html
You can check out my blog, I think I posted about Hiroshima back in March. |
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sabina
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. I really like your blog!! I've just spent about an hour reading through it.
I'm actually going to be working for a small private school there. Please let me know if you can recommend any cafes/restaurants in Fukuyama! Or any historical/cultural sites in the nearby areas that I should check out. |
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Hi, never been to Fukuyama but my friend is from there and she really likes the place. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say with a population that size, you probably got a few good bars but no major clubs. If you wanna dance till the first train a better bet would be Hiroshima.
To the west you have Kurashiki and Okayama. Kurashiki is about 45 minutes away by local train, and is a good place for a daytrip (much like Onomichi, which I also recommend). 15 minutes past Kurashiki there is Okayama, which has a few decent clubs, but probably Hiroshima's are better.
Any place you're gonna go to in Japan will have karaoke, izakayas, movie theaters and the like. Hope you enjoy Fukuyama. |
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ciccone_youth
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| sabina wrote: |
Thanks for the reply. I really like your blog!! I've just spent about an hour reading through it.
I'm actually going to be working for a small private school there. Please let me know if you can recommend any cafes/restaurants in Fukuyama! Or any historical/cultural sites in the nearby areas that I should check out. |
Thank you! I think Fukuyama is a nice, livable city, but not the place to party until dawn.
I saw many cool little caf�s and shops, around the main shopping area in front of the station. Nothing in particular I can recommend, I only ate some nice ramen.
As for cultural sights I only saw the castle. Onomichi is only 20 min away and it is so beautiful. As mentioned above, Kurashiki is also gorgeous and traditional. Okayama is another 'small-ish' city, and of course you can always go to Shikoku for some real countryside (that's where I live now). |
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