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Ōtemon, Fukuoka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ōtemon is a single chōme of Fukuoka registered as 大手門一丁目 and ringed by Minato, Arato and Akasaka.
About Ōtemon
Where to stay in Ōtemon
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Ōtemon sits a little back from the busiest of Fukuoka's central ground, with Nagahama, Minato and Akasaka each about the same short walk away and Maizuru only a touch further. Arato is equally close. You trade a headline address for quieter streets. Kuromon, Daimyō and Ōhori sit at the far end of that walk, which is the whole range of choice from a room in 大手門一丁目.
About Ōtemon
What are the main landmarks in Ōtemon?
Nagahama, Minato and Arato all hold ground within a short walk of Ōtemon, but the register enters no landmark at all inside the district's own boundary. 大手門一丁目 stands alone in its entry. A single chōme with a name and a boundary is the whole of it, and what a visitor walks to belongs to Akasaka, Maizuru, Kuromon or Ōhori instead.
What is the history of Ōtemon?
Ōtemon holds one numbered chōme and no recorded founding. The register gives 大手門一丁目 a name and a boundary, and it gives Fukuoka the district, but it does not reach back past the address to anything that could be called an origin. Fukuoka Prefecture governs above, in Japan. Maizuru, Nagahama and Arato share that silence, so an older Ōtemon, if these streets ever knew one, is not what the file preserves.
Where is Ōtemon?
Ōtemon is one chōme of Fukuoka with Nagahama, Minato, Akasaka and Maizuru at much the same remove, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Updated August 2026