Full-day tour from Fukuoka: Saga Strawberry Picking & Yutoku Inari Shrine & Ouo Shrine & Takeo Onsen
Last updated: August 26, 2026
Pick sweet Saga strawberries, stand before the cliffside halls of Yutoku Inari Shrine and watch Ouo Shrine's torii float on the tide — one day from Fukuoka. The morning starts in the greenhouses, eating plump winter berries straight off the vine, before the coach reaches Yutoku Inari, counted with Kyoto's Fushimi and Ibaraki's Kasama among Japan's three great Inari shrines, its vermilion halls stacked against the mountainside on towering stilts. On the Ariake Sea, Ouo Shrine's lone torii rises from the water — quieter and stranger than Itsukushima's famous gate — and the day winds down along Takeo Onsen's 1,300-year-old hot-spring street before returning to Hakata Station.
Itinerary
Departure
- Start point: Lawson at Oriental Hotel Fukuoka (Hakata Station)
- Stop at: Saga Strawberry Farm
- Stop at: Yutoku Inari Shrine
- Stop at: Ouo Shrine
- Stop at: Takeo Onsen Street
- Stop at: Hakata Station Chikushi Exit
Frequently Asked Questions
Winter into spring — Fukuoka and Saga are famous for winter strawberries, above all the prized Amaou variety. The farms use elevated beds in barrier-free greenhouses, so children and older visitors pick comfortably at waist height, and eating as you pick is the whole point.
Of Japan's roughly 30,000 Inari shrines it is revered among the top three, alongside Fushimi Inari in Kyoto and Kasama Inari in Ibaraki — and it may be the most theatrical, its lacquered main hall raised on a lattice of pillars against the cliff face like a stage hanging over the valley.
Ouo Shrine's gates stand in the Ariake Sea, which has Japan's greatest tidal range — at high tide the torii seem to float on the water, and at low tide the seabed opens so you can walk right up to them. It's a solitary, mysterious counterpoint to Itsukushima's celebrated gate.
A hot-spring town with over 1,300 years of history — not one isolated inn but a whole strolling district gathered around its baths, entered through the vermilion tower gate designed by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station.