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Furukogarasumachi, Fukuoka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Furukogarasumachi is a small district of Chūō-ku in Fukuoka, Japan, named for a shrine that left it for Kego Shrine in 1608.
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Where to stay in Furukogarasumachi
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
This is one of the quietest addresses close to the middle of Fukuoka. Apartment buildings and shops line the Jōnan Line along the north-western edge, and behind them the district is residential and still, much like Goshogadani next door. It is very small.
Yakuin-Ōdōri and Sakurazaka stations are both a short walk off, on the Nanakuma subway line.
About Furukogarasumachi
What are the main landmarks in Furukogarasumachi?
Nothing monumental stands in Furukogarasumachi, and the district's interest is in its name rather than its buildings. A funeral hall occupies part of it. Along the Jōnan Line the frontage is shops and apartments, while Kego across that road holds the shrine that this neighbourhood is named after having lost.
What is the history of Furukogarasumachi?
A temporary hall of the Kogarasu shrine stood on this ground in the Edo period, and in 1608 that shrine was merged into Kego-gū, which is now Kego Shrine. The name kept the memory. Furukogarasumachi means the old Kogarasu town, and the district was carved out of Shimo-Kego and Yakuin, took in part of Yakuin in 1934, and gave up parts of itself to Yakuin, Kego, and Sakurazaka in 1967 and again in 1971.
Where is Furukogarasumachi?
Furukogarasumachi sits a little south of the centre of Chūō-ku, south-south-west of Tenjin. Yakuin-Ifukumachi lies north-east of it and Goshogadani east-south-east, with Sakurazaka south-west and Kego north-west across the Jōnan Line. Few districts in the city are smaller.
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Updated September 2026