Today I arrived to Fukuoka. Its been more than year and half since my last visit here, so there was a few things that I felt I had start with.

I’m living at a hostel called Khaosan which is really near the airport. My taxi driver had some problems where it was located, even though I had a map and the exact address printed out He called the hostel however and got instructions. 5~10min and 1080 yen later I arrived. Very cozy place with nice personnel and  free internet access and stuff.

After I got out from the hostel, I started walking towards the central parts of Hakata and Tenjin instinctively. Bought on the way; hot coffe from a vending machine (good since its actually quite cold), and an onigiri with mentaiko flavour. Yeah, things are looking good so far.

Quick visit to Yodobashi camera which is on the way to Hakata station. Subway to Tenjin, and without realizing it I had walked to my favorite gaming center: Sega GIGO Tenjin. I got beaten’ up by some bloke, but I was sooo close to beating him this one time

Onwards to BicCamera too look at some more tech. Then past Kego Koen, a park behind Solaria Plaza, onwards to Best Denki.

After all the tech hunting, I was pretty hungry so I headed to Ichiran Ramen. This place is the best. Best noodles ever, and the best service one could possibly ask for.

And now, for dessert, I’m sitting at Seattle’s Best coffee with free wifi and a macha.

I have been using Anthy on Ubuntu for quite some time, and I think that it has worked perfectly up until 9.4. I didn’t have time to explore that release so much, but I noticed now that in 10.04 the Japanese input does not work out of the box.

First thing first; install language support if you haven’t done that. (System->Administration->Language Support-> Install)

Install Anthy if you haven’t done so:

sudo apt-get install scim scim-anthy anthy kasumi scim-tables-ja

sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk ibus-qt4

Next, add Japanese input through the IBus. (System->Preferences->IBus Preferences-> Input Method tab)

Now, we can type in 日本語 again! The familiar panel in the lower right corner will appear if you touch the 半角/全角-button. Note that it will not appear if you are not in a text-input area.

In February I’m finally going back to Japan. First stop is of course Fukuoka, but I plan to do some travel around the country. Especially I’m planning to go to Hokkaido so I’ll definitely put up some pics here.

I have a long list of things that I have to do during me short stay, but I’m expecting to get them all done!

• Eat too much tonkotsu ramen
• Play Tekken6, and win at least one game
• Go to an izakaya
• more,more,more!