is an island in

Nishi-ku, Fukuoka is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, Japan. Meaning literally "west ward," it is bordered to the east by Sawara-ku, and to the west by Itoshima. As of 2003, it has a population of 173,813 people and an area of 83.81 km2. As of 2016, it ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The island was seriously damaged by the

2005 Fukuoka earthquake The struck Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan at 10:53 am JST on March 20, 2005, and lasted for approximately 1 minute. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) measured it as peaking at a magnitude of 7.0, whereas the United States Geological Survey ( ...

. The affected areas of the island were reconstructed by 2008.

Access

* **Hakata Port - Genkai Island PortFukuoka Municipal Ferry Service Timetable
/ref> File:Fukuoka Municipal Ferry Service New Genkai.jpg, ''New Genkai'' at Genkai Island Port

References

Geography of Fukuoka Islands of Fukuoka Prefecture {{Fukuoka-geo-stub