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File:Platform_of_Ohorikoen_Station_2.jpg, Platform
is a railway station
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located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka
is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
in Japan
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. Its station symbol is a Japanese cherry blossom
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in pink, because many cherry blossom trees are planted near this station.
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Vicinity
*Fukuoka Family Court *Ōhori Post Office *Konkokyo
, or Konkō, is a Shinto sect with origins in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs. It is part of the . It was founded by (also known as ) in 1859. Konkōkyō primarily worships a kami named ''Tenchi Kane No Kami'' , as well as other kami, namely the Mita ...
Branch
*Tenrikyo
is a Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheistic nor pantheistic, originating from the teachings of a 19th-century woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as "Oyasama". Followers of Tenrikyo believe that God of Orig ...
Branch
*Ōhori Park
is a park in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan and a registered Place of Scenic Beauty.
History
The name Ōhori means a large moat and it derives from the fact that Kuroda Nagamasa, the old lord of Fukuoka, reclaimed the northern half of a cove ...
*Ōhori Park Noh Theater
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. It is Japan's oldest major theater art that is still regularly performed today. Noh is often based on tales from traditional literature featuri ...
*Fukuoka Art Museum
is an art museum in Fukuoka, Japan. It contains a notable collection of Western and Asian art, and exhibits various temporary exhibitions. In November 2010 it hosted a large exhibition of Marc Chagall's work.
'' The Madonna of Port Lligat'' by S ...
*Fukuoka Elementary School Attached to Fukuoka University of Education (UTEF) is a national university in Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876, and it was chartered as a university in 1949. The present name was adopted in 1966.
Campus and Location
Located in Munakata, a city ...
*Fukuoka Junior High School Attached to Fukuoka University of Education
*Ōhori Junior High School and High School Attached to Fukuoka University
Fukuoka University is a private research university located in Fukuoka, Japan.
The university has nine faculties with a total of around 20,000 students, 800 of whom are foreign. Its two campuses are in Nanakuma and Kitakyushu. Fukuoka Universit ...
*Nishi Park ( ja)
*Fukuoka Castle
is a Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is also known as Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城 Maizuru-jō) or Seki Castle (石城 Seki-jō). Completed in the early Edo period for ''tozama daimyō'' Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been decre ...
Ruins (Maizuru Park ( ja))
*Heiwadai Stadium
was a Baseball park, ballpark located in the Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. From 1950 to 1978, it served as the home ballpark of the Nishitetsu Lions, a team in Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League. It also briefly served as ...
*Fukuoka Financial Group
is a Japanese multinational investment bank company that was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Fukuoka Bank and the Kumamoto Bank respectively. Based in Fukuoka, the company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Fukuoka Stock Exchan ...
, Inc.
*Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory
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*NHK
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NHK ope ...
Fukuoka broadcasting station
*Japan Post Insurance
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's Fukuoka Service center
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