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Has several well manicured gardens and fields of flowers that vary by the season.
This area is next to Tenjin and is Fukuoka's red-light district, with over 3500 restaurants, as well as ramen stalls (yatai), shopping, pubs, hostess bars, rooftop beer gardens in summer, one surviving movie theater, and sex trade. The neon lights on the Naka River are famous with over 60,000 visitors a day, and it has the busiest street in Kyushu.
This area has several historical shrines and Buddhist temples, including:
The 8th-century Kushida Shrine is starting point for the annual Gion-Yamakasa Festival.
It has a 10.8-m wooden Great Buddha.
Japan's first Zen temple.
The ACROS building has a terraced roof that merges with the park and contains some 35,000 plants representing 76 species. It is 809 steps to the top. Just east of ACROS is the former Prefectural Guest House, featuring turn-of-the-century architecture.