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A store that makes and sells Japanese prepared foods by hand. Among them, Shirawa (100g 220 yen) and old-fashioned croquettes and tuna cutlets are popular items.

A long-established corner of the market, located inside a long-established market with a style of drinking alcohol standing at the storefront of a liquor store. You can enjoy a variety of sake, from delicious sake purchased by examining it, to Habu sake and Akadama wine with a real hub. I want to taste the old-fashioned horned atmosphere.

Riverwalk Kitakyushu is a complex space with advanced functions such as culture, art, information dissemination, and commerce, which was born in a prime location surrounded by lush nature and history, such as Shiki River, Kokura Castle, and Katsuyama Park.

A large commercial complex with a site area of 21,11 square meters in Sunazu, a shopping zone with a variety of shops and restaurants, and a cinema complex with 10 screens are full of fun. A large 50-meter-diameter Ferris wheel overlooks the Kanmon Strait and Shimonoseki.

Kokura Station The complex, with a floor space of 80,000 sq m, is connected by a sidewalk moving from the Shinkansen entrance. The second floor contains a passport center and a travel supply store. The third floor is an indoor park where preschool children can play happily, "Child care contact exchange plaza" and an exhibition hall, and from the fourth floor is an office floor.

The museum is located on the 4th and 5th floor of the "Riverwalk Kitakyushu", a large commercial complex in the Kokura-Kita district. It was opened in 2003 as a branch of the "Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Main Building Annex" in Tobata-ku. It is an urban-type gallery that allows you to feel more familiar art. There is no permanent exhibition. It has a wide variety of genres and themes throughout the year, such as planning based on works held by the Kitakyushu City Museum, photography, picture book, dyeing, design, etc.

As a commemorative business to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of TOTO in 2017, the TOTO Museum was opened in August 2015 at the site of the headquarters and the site of the Ogura Daiichi factory. Along with the culture and history around the water from the founding of TOTO to the present, we introduce thoughts on manufacturing and the evolution of products. The exhibits also feature familiar products such as toilets and baths, as well as products stored in Japan's first unit bathroom (according to JIS), and prominent architectural buildings such as the Capitol and the Akasaka Guest House. You can enjoy the transition of life culture with abundant materials about water, such as toilets.

A memorial hall tracing the achievements of the writer Matsumoto Seiyō, a native of Kitakyushu, who wrote such representative works as "Dotto Line" and "Suna no Tenki". In addition to a huge chronology of Seiwari's life with news images of the time, the museum also recreates his home in Tokyo, displaying a study and 23,000 books. It takes 40 minutes.

Including Bungo Ogai, Hisame Sugita, Takako Hashimoto, Fumiko Hayashi, Yuhei Hino, and Sakon Sou, he introduces the precious material and his life in graphic form, as well as introducing the history of literature in Kitakyushu by genre including novels, poetry and haiku. In addition, he will introduce 35 contemporary writers, including Keiichiro Hirano, Lily Frankie, Suzuki Matsuo and Kiyoko Murata, who are currently active in various fields, along with their favorite items.

Leiji Matsumoto, a native of the local community, is the honorary director of the museum, which has three themes: "see, read, draw." the charms of manga are introduced in such corners as "Manga Time Tunnel", "Manga Seven Wonders", and "Manga Town, Kitakyushu". In the viewing zone, you can read about 70,000 comics, from masterpieces that shine in the history of comics to recent popular works. Facilities that a wide range of generations can enjoy, from children to adults.