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Thursday 2 April
Welcome Drinks 19:00-20:00, Bar Fizz Grand Hyatt Fukuoka followed by Yatai food stalls, craft beer excursion, cherry blossom viewing
Late arrivals can meet at the GH reception at 21:00.

Friday 3 April
Half-day trip to Dazaifu (not organised)
Official Do Dinner - Yanagimachi Ikkokudō Haruyoshi-ten, 19:00-22:00

Saturday 4 April
Day Trip to Nagasaki Depart Hakata 07:54 (Kamome #7, Platform 4), Return Nagasaki 17:20 (Kamome #38) – arrive Hakata 19:14

Sunday-Monday 5-6 April
Post-do trip to Kurokawa Onsen
Lunch, day trip to Kumamoto, etc. for those still in Fukuoka

Planning to attend Welcome Drinks – Thursday, April 2, 7PM~8PM, Bar Fizz, Grand Hyatt Fukuoka
NewbieRunner
greendx
kpcs
kpc+1
Awesom Andy
JY1024 (arriving FUK @ 9:35PM, but will get to GH ASAP)
kirkwoodj (arr FUK 8pm)
lili (arriving FUK @ 9:35PM, GH)
BOB W (arriving FUK @ NH249 at 12:25 PM)
beckoa (arriving FUK @ NH249 at 12:25 PM)
ClaudiSTR (50% chance for 7 pm, but sure after arriving at 8:05pm at FUK)
DENchick
iris30
ParanoiaTX (arriving FUK 18:30 on OZ136)
ParanoiaTX+1 (arriving FUK 18:30 on OZ136)
Moomba
nme7
gvdIAD (arriving FUK @ 20:05 on NH2145)
nomadic.relief (arriving FUK @ 12:25 on NH249)
upup&away(arriving by train,Thursday, April 02 (16:39)
ZFW-ATC
Henwurst
The_Wrath_of_Khan - I'll be there as soon as the 1800 Hawks game is over.
Sykes (going to the Baseball game with The_Wrath_of_Khan, so will arrive at the end)
El_Duderito+1

Planning to trip to Dazaifu
(Unorganized - link up information)
Awesom Andy
restlessinRNO
JY1024
kirkwoodj
BOB W
beckoa
ClaudiSTR
pfbloom
lynnevt
DENchick
lili
iris30
Moomba
Sykes
~~violist~~ got rained on too much this morning
nomadic.relief
upup&away
ZFW-ATC
nme7
O Sora
Henwurst
The_Wrath_of_Khan
El_Duderito+1

Do Dinner - Friday, April 3, 7:00PM
See post #3 for confirmed attendees.

Planning to join Day Trip to Nagasaki – Saturday, April 4, Depart Hakata 7:54AM
NewbieRunner
greendx
kpc
kpc+1
serfty
Awesom Andy
restlessinRNO
JY1024
kirkwoodj
lili
BOB W
beckoa
ClaudiSTR
DENchick
iris30
Moomba
Sykes (50/50 on going)
gvdIAD
nomadic.relief (assuming I'm capable of waking up early enough!)
upup&away
ZFW-ATC
El_Duderito+1
BigRedBears+1
nme7
O Sora
Henwurst

A summary of the events may be found in post #2.

This event also has a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/JapanDo2015/ if you are interested in the event and enjoy a bit more social interaction with fellow attendees / organizers, feel free to join in.

Japan Do #3 - The FUK Do - April 3-5, 2015

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Feb 24, 2015, 1:13 am

#316

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Nishitetsu runs a specially decorated train called 'Tabito' to Dazaifu. Tabito when written in Japanese (旅人 normally pronounced 'Tabi-bito') means 'Traveller' but the name is also associated with a Japanese poet, Ōtomo no Tabito (大伴旅人), who was Governor-General of Dazaifu between 728-730. He and his son, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, contributed to compiling the Man'yōshū, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after 759 AD during the Nara period.

It appears to be a BYOB (Beverage, bento, etc)

Thanks for keeping us excited NewbieRunner ^

Feb 24, 2015, 1:52 am

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Will you choose 'Academic Achievement' or 'Love Knot' or anything in-between?

Feb 26, 2015, 10:18 am

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Indeed! Plenty of rooms are available on Thursday and Friday nights but it could be a challenge to find a reasonably priced room on Saturday night. Japanese hotels usually have generous cancellation policies, so you could expect last minute cancellations. I think some FTers have multiple hotel bookings during the Do.

Ouch - I'm seeing little to no availability anywhere within 30 miles for Sat. 4/4 !! Checking all the usual booking sites...

Any tips from the in-crowd? Is anybody planning to cancel a duplicate reservation that I might pick up?

And BTW, yes - pfbloom and +1 will likely be attending at least some of the festivities!

Feb 26, 2015, 10:49 am

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Like NewbieRunner stated.... keep checking, changes are decent that cancellations will happen and a room will be available.
I am looking for a room in Kyoto myself around the same time. And today one date has opened up after the hotel has been sold out for months.

Feb 26, 2015, 3:24 pm

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I think this is starting to look more and more likely for me.

Flight options look decent - now to see if I can find hotel options that don't cost an arm and a leg.

Woohoo - all booked!

I've updated my info in the wiki.

Anybody else staying at the GH FUK? I'm just Plat with Hyatt, so won't have fancy lounge access, so if anybody wants to grab breakfast in the mornings with me, let me know.

I'll also be attending the post-DO trip to the onsen and Kumamoto. ^

Feb 26, 2015, 3:35 pm

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It looks like unfortunately I might be out as I just got scheduled to go to Korea for work for 3 weeks starting March 30th. I do have a suite reservation for 4 nights at the GH Fukuoka if anyone wants to take that over once my cancellation is definite.

Feb 26, 2015, 5:57 pm

#322

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Perhaps you can come for the weekend? Take a flight to FUKuoka late friday night and return on Sunday afternoon.

Feb 26, 2015, 9:26 pm

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Originally Posted by SQ421

I want to go (and if I do, I'd be up for the DMZ tour, stay at one of the Hyatts), but I'm still negotiating with work whether I take a few days off on the other side of The Do or take the red-eye back to Sydney on the Sunday and make it to work Monday.

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Thanks for the update. Keep me posted as I can look into more of the particulars.

Beck & myself are out for the DMZ tour. We will be leaving FUK Sunday afternoon into ICN. We leave a few hours later for DXB, 26 hours there and then DXB-LAX. Creative routing requires that we travel on EK in F on the A380 INC-DXB & DXB-LAX. It took a lot of convincing to get Beck to agree to this massive amount of time in the air

, but he relented when I pointed out (again) how fabulous EK F really is.

Feb 26, 2015, 10:51 pm

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Originally Posted by BOB W

requires that we travel on EK in F

That is definitely a first world problem.

Feb 26, 2015, 11:04 pm

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I have three separate strategic bookings I made at the Hyatt Regency for Fri, Sat and Sun which I will not be using (I was going to cancel).

These are each for a standard "DOUBLE ROOM" (Two Beds).

The Rates are for Fri and Sun: ¥11,500 and for Sat ¥14,500.

Is it possible to assign these to another FTer?

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Yes, Fri and Sat have been taken.

Sunday Night at ¥11,500 still available.

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Feb 27, 2015, 1:51 am

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I do have a suite reservation for 4 nights at the GH Fukuoka if anyone wants to take that over once my cancellation is definite.

I still have a few DSU's that are about to expire... Was your stay from April 2-6 by any chance?

Feb 27, 2015, 9:58 am

#327

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I will be able to attend as well.....

Mar 1, 2015, 12:08 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BOB W

requires that we travel on EK in F

That is definitely a first world problem.

Well it turned into one

Was watching Kiko TV in ITO tonight and they had a program with English subtitles from Japan- Kenmin.tv - they were talking about a prefecture that ate chicken as sashimi

. Wonder what culinary treasures FUK has?

Mar 1, 2015, 12:33 am

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They do a pretty nice Ramen with pork bone broth....and the food stalls are a nice experience too:

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4811.html

Mar 1, 2015, 1:36 am

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A better known speciality is horse meat sashimi which is popular in Kumamoto. It is offered as part of a set dinner at most ryokans and I'll have to call our ryokan in Kurokawa Onsen again nearer the date to confirm we don't want any.

Another Fukuoka speciality is mentaiko, spicy marinated cod roe.