Originally Posted by
VoiD
Thank you for the valuable link! I will be staying Monday-Tuesday in early Sept, so I'm pretty much set to stay near Hakata station and take the shinkansen to get dinner.
I'd just let you know you have a change at kokura w SKS and a direct train with limited express.
add: it's probably a good idea if you want to try - otherwise limited express might be a but more convinient. actually if i were you i would just take whatever come up first... that would probably mean local train to kokura then SKS. I forgot about them last week but if you can handle a ticket shop you would get some small discount. or if you have time to go to a reservation desk, you can pay by credit card.