Daimyo

This guide to Daimyo in Fukuoka walks the tangle of alleys that feudal-era lords built to confuse attackers approaching the castle, laid over moats that still run somewhere underfoot. It follows a small wooden church raised here in 1896, barely two decades after Japan lifted its centuries-old ban on Christianity, and the parish's path through the following decades as Fukuoka became its own Catholic diocese. Look for how these boutique-lined lanes still bend and double back without warning.