Our first morning breakfast in Fukuoka ,was the breakfast included in our hotel stay at Prince Smart Inn, Fukuoka, Japan. There is a small restaurant on Level 1 of the hotel (hotel reception is on Level 2).
There's few selection of burgers for us to choose that comes free with our hotel stay. We can top up for other selection with a fee. We can dine in the restaurnat or takeaway.
The breakfast really was good just the right portion for me. I had the ham and egg cheese burger.
After breakfast, we headed to Hakata Station to take the Shinkansen for our day trip to Kumamoto. As we had bought the 3 day pass on Day 2 in Nagasaki, we just need to reserve our return trip as we had only reserve for the going trip but not the return trip in Nagasaki when we first purchased the pass. It is very easy to make the reservation for our seats for the Shinkansen. Just need to fill in the form with the time that we taking the train and the dates and present out main JR Kyushu pass. As it was morning, there's not a long queue at the Rail Pass Counter.
There's also locker to store luggages at Hakata Station.
This our Shinkansen seat ticket to Kumamoto
Before entering the Shinkansen Station , we looked at the information board. Our train is on Track 15. So it is really very easy to take the Shinkansen, as all information are in English too.
There's information on where to queue. Even if you queue wrong, can always walked inside the train to your seats.
The train is very clean and comfortable.
Depending on the train, the journey could take from 30 mins to 1 hour to reach from Hakata Station to Kumamoto Station. My train journey was around 30 mins.
Finally, we reached Kumamoto Station. Kumamon is a mascot created by the government of Kumamoto Prefecture Japan. It was created to attract tourists to the region after the Kyushu Shinkansen line opened.
