Nishi Park
Hilltop park with a shrine honoring feudal-era lords and sweeping views over Hakata Bay's islands.
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This guide to Nishi Park in Fukuoka centers on Mori Tomonobu, a retainer sent by his lord Kuroda Nagamasa on a strict-orders errand to a rival warlord's camp sometime in the 1590s, forbidden from touching a drop of sake. It follows the taunt that rival threw at him, and the wager he found himself cornered into accepting over an enormous bowl. Climb the stairs behind the bronze statue to Terumo Shrine, built for the Kuroda lords who once ruled this bay.
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