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Gokushomachi, Fukuoka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Gokushomachi, written 御供所町, is a temple quarter of Fukuoka, holding Shōfuku-ji Precinct, Junshin-ji Temple and the Tōchō-ji Rokkaku-dō.
About Gokushomachi
Where to stay in Gokushomachi
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A stay in Gokushomachi puts temple walls at the end of the street, since Shōfuku-ji Precinct, the Tōchō-ji Rokkaku-dō and Junshin-ji Temple all fall inside the same quarter of Fukuoka. Mornings here are temple mornings. That suits travellers who would rather walk to a precinct than to the Hakata Bay shore, and it costs them the immediacy of the waterfront. 御供所町 is the address on the signs, and the stela for former Okunodō marks older naming in the same streets.
About Gokushomachi
What are the main landmarks in Gokushomachi?
Temples set the register here. Shōfuku-ji Precinct and the Tōchō-ji Rokkaku-dō, listed under Tōchō-ji, stand alongside Junshin-ji Temple, and a stela for former Okunodō records a name the streets no longer use. Old names survive on stone.
Fukuoka keeps its museums elsewhere; the Gokushomachi list is temple and marker from end to end.
What is the history of Gokushomachi?
Gokushomachi has no founding year in the record. Its past shows up in stone and precinct instead, in Shōfuku-ji Precinct and Junshin-ji Temple, and in the stela for former Okunodō, which keeps a superseded place name legible on the street. Fukuoka itself handled trade with the Asian mainland from ancient times, and the entries gathered in this quarter are religious rather than civic. 御供所町 remains the written form.
Where is Gokushomachi?
Gokushomachi occupies a temple-lined patch of Fukuoka, the Kyushu city that faces the Asian mainland across Hakata Bay.
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Updated August 2026