Japan · Fukuoka Prefecture · Fukuoka
Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ropponmatsu is a district of Fukuoka registered as Ropponmatsu 1-chome, known for the Fukuoka City Science Museum standing among its blocks.
Hotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Where to stay in Ropponmatsu
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Ropponmatsu keeps one public draw. A stay here means the Fukuoka City Science Museum within the same few streets, with Kusagae and Tani adjoining and Ōhori about a kilometre out for a longer walk. Baikōen lies a short way off, which gives Ropponmatsu 1-chome a choice between museum-side streets and quieter residential ones. You would pick it to keep Fukuoka at arm's length without leaving the city.
Find hotels in Ropponmatsu
Direct booking searches for these neighbourhoods.
Fukuoka City Science Museum blocks
The streets holding the Fukuoka City Science Museum, the one public draw inside Ropponmatsu.Find hotels in Fukuoka City Science Museum blocksa short crossing into KusagaeKusagae edge
Ropponmatsu's boundary with Kusagae, residential and a few minutes from the museum doors. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Kusagae edgethe closest neighbour reached on footTani side
The Tani flank of Ropponmatsu, nearest of the district's neighbours and still after dark. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Tani sidewalkers making the trip out to ŌhoriToward Ōhori
Ropponmatsu's outer streets pointing at Ōhori, roughly a kilometre of pavement away. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Toward ŌhoriHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Ropponmatsu
What are the main landmarks in Ropponmatsu?
The Fukuoka City Science Museum is the one catalogued institution in Ropponmatsu, and it does the work a shrine or a castle does elsewhere, giving the district a fixed point on the map. One museum is all the catalogue holds. Visitors wanting more cross into Baikōen, Kusagae, or the ground toward Ōhori, none of it far from Ropponmatsu 1-chome.
What is the history of Ropponmatsu?
Ropponmatsu has no recorded founding. Its documented life runs through the register, Ropponmatsu 1-chome, and through the Fukuoka City Science Museum, the institution that gives the district a public face inside Fukuoka. Fukuoka Prefecture holds the administrative layer above it in Japan, and the surrounding blocks of Tani, Kusagae, and Baikōen are documented on the same terms.
Where is Ropponmatsu?
Ropponmatsu covers a stretch of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, with Tani closest of its neighbours and Kusagae and Baikōen not much further.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Ropponmatsu?
Fukuoka City Science Museum blocks: families heading for the science museum. Kusagae edge: a short crossing into Kusagae. Tani side: the closest neighbour reached on foot. Toward Ōhori: walkers making the trip out to Ōhori.
More areas in Fukuoka
Updated September 2026