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It is located 1,100 km (684 mi) from Tokyo. The nearest overseas region is Busan Metropolitan City in Gyeongsang-do, South Korea, and the distance from Busan is about 180 km (112 miles). Fukuoka and Busan are sister cities. Climate. Fukuoka has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters.
Fukuoka (福岡) is Kyushu's largest and one of Japan's ten most populated cities. Because of its closeness to the Asian mainland (closer to Seoul than to Tokyo), Fukuoka has been an important harbor city for many centuries and was chosen by the Mongol invasion forces as their landing point in the 13th century.
Fukuoka, city and port, capital of Fukuoka ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan. It is located on the southern coast of Hakata Bay, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Kitakyūshū, and incorporates the former city of Hakata.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5,071,968. Area. 4,986.40 km². Home of Kyushu’s largest cities in Fukuoka and Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県, Fukuoka-ken) is the southern metropolis of Japan and the gateway to Kyushu.
Asia. Sunny, friendly Fukuoka (福岡) is Kyūshū's largest city and Japan's eighth-largest population centre. It's made up of two former towns: the castle town of Fukuoka on the west bank of the Naka-gawa and the merchant town of Hakata on the east bank.
Fukuoka is the capital of the eponymous prefecture, and also the main large city of Kyushu, the fourth main island of Japan in the south. More than 1,5 million people live here under a mild climate and enjoying a relaxed lifestyle.
Fukuoka (福岡) is the capital of Fukuoka prefecture and the largest city on the island of Kyushu with 2.5 million citizens including its suburbs. Understand [ edit] Hakata Port in Fukuoka, as seen from a landing airplane. Watanabe-dori, in the Tenjin area of Fukuoka.
