Bayside Place Hakata

This guide to Bayside Place Hakata follows a 1988 partnership between Fukuoka city, the port authority and Kyushu Electric Power, betting on a harborfront leisure mall to pull crowds off the new ferries. It traces the mall's strong opening in 1991 through years of sliding revenue and departing tenants, down to the single anchor tenant whose troubles put the whole complex at risk. Look for the market stalls of Kyushu seafood and produce filling the space today.