Itoshima weekend itinerary
- Depart Fukuoka City by car at 8:00, visiting breakfast, an oyster hut, Tateishiyama or Kayasan, Ito no Yudokoro, and Itosaisai.
- Visit the oyster hut before noon and bathe at 15:30 before Itosaisai closes at 18:00.
Updated October 21, 2026: route for Saturday, October 24 and Sunday, October 25.
No plans or reservations for this weekend yet? Leave central Fukuoka by car at 8:00 a.m., follow this order, and your day is set.
You can fit a seaside breakfast, an Itoshima oyster hut, a hike on Tateishiyama or Kayasan, Ito no Yudokoro and JA Itoshima Farmers’ Market Itosaisai into one day. This route gets you to the oyster hut before noon and the baths at 3:30 p.m., before Itosaisai closes at 6:00 p.m. On Saturday, add Takasu Night Kagura. On either day, finish at Hikari no Korokan Festival after returning to Fukuoka City.
In short
- The first breakfast choice is CURRENT in Nokita, which opens at 8:00 a.m. and features in the Itoshima Tourism Association’s breakfast listings. For breakfast at Futamigaura, try Surf Side Cafe, open from 8:00 a.m. on weekends. If seats are unavailable, head to Growwell Cafe in Inadome, open from 8:30 a.m. on weekends.
- If you cannot reach Itosaisai before closing, shop at Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center, open until 10:00 p.m. It is a 5–10-minute drive from Ito no Yudokoro.
- This weekend’s side trips include Takasu Night Kagura on Saturday, October 24, and the Autumn Harvest Festival at Farm Park Itokoku on October 24 and 25. Hikari no Korokan Festival at Maizuru Park also runs through October 25.
Checked with official pages on October 21, 2026.
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One-day Itoshima itinerary from Fukuoka City at 8:00 a.m. (October 24 and 25)
Leave Fukuoka City at 8:00 a.m., reach an Itoshima oyster hut at 10:30–10:45 a.m., Ito no Yudokoro at 3:30 p.m. and Itosaisai around 5:10 p.m., then return to Fukuoka City around 6:30 p.m. For breakfast and hiking, choose from two or three options each.
| Time | Where | What to do | Next stop (approx.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Fukuoka City | Drive west through Imajuku toward the coast | 35–40 minutes by car to breakfast |
| 8:40 | Breakfast café | Coffee and a light seaside breakfast at CURRENT or Surf Side Cafe; Growwell Cafe if they are full | 10 minutes by car to the sea |
| 9:45 | Futamigaura or Nokita coast | Walk by the Meoto Iwa rocks or along the beach | 15–30 minutes by car to the oyster huts at Funakoshi Fishing Port |
| 10:30 | Itoshima oyster hut, such as Kakihouse Mokkun | Grilled oysters; Mokkun has a 120-minute dining limit on weekends and public holidays | 15–20 minutes by car to the trailhead |
| 13:00 | Tateishiyama or Kayasan | Enjoy the summit views and walk down | 10–20 minutes by car to Ito no Yudokoro |
| 15:30 | Ito no Yudokoro | Bathe (adults ¥900) | 10 minutes by car to Itosaisai |
| 17:10 | Itosaisai | Buy vegetables and fruit; closes at 6:00 p.m. Use Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center if you cannot make it | 25–30 minutes by car to Fukuoka City |
| 18:30 | Fukuoka City | Arrive back | (Return) |
| Sat–Sun | Side trip: Farm Park Itokoku | Autumn Harvest Festival, October 24 and 25. Food stalls and woodworking on both days; animal encounters only on October 25 | 10–15 minutes by car from Itosaisai |
| Sat 18:00 | Side trip: Takasu Night Kagura at Takasu Shrine | 12 performances over about 3 hours 30 minutes in the kagura hall; ceremony in the main hall from 5:00 p.m. | 10–15 minutes by car from Itosaisai. Ends around 9:30 p.m.; then about 30 minutes by car to Fukuoka City |
| Sat–Sun to 21:00 | Side trip: Hikari no Korokan Festival at Maizuru Park | Stop after returning to Fukuoka City; runs through October 25 | Returning at 6:30 p.m. leaves about 2 hours before 9:00 p.m. About 7 minutes on foot from Akasaka Station |
Travel times are estimates based on road-map route calculations, with extra time for traffic lights and congestion. Times to and from Fukuoka City use Chuo Ward as the starting point, so they vary with your departure location. Roads near the fishing ports get busy during oyster-hut season, and traffic jams can occur (Itoshima Tourism Association: oyster huts).
Sources: each facility’s official website and the Itoshima Tourism Association (checked October 21, 2026).
Side trips for this weekend only (October 24 and 25)
On Saturday, October 24, Takasu Night Kagura starts at 6:00 p.m. at Takasu Shrine, about 10–15 minutes by car from Itosaisai. The kagura hall hosts 12 performances over about 3 hours 30 minutes. A ceremony takes place beforehand in the main hall at 5:00 p.m. Parking is limited; follow the attendants’ directions (Itoshima Tourism Association: Takasu Night Kagura).
The Autumn Harvest Festival takes place on October 24 and 25 at Farm Park Itokoku in Takasu, Itoshima City (Farm Park Itokoku’s official blog). It is in the same direction as Itosaisai and Takasu Shrine. Food stalls and woodworking activities run on both days; animal encounters take place only on October 25.
If you skip the hike, another option is Itoshima Handmade Carnival at Shima Central Park. It runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on October 23–25, about 15 minutes by car from Mokkun.
Back in Fukuoka City, Hikari no Korokan Festival runs from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. through Sunday, October 25, at Korokan Square in Maizuru Park. The market opens at 12:00 p.m. on weekends (Fukuoka City: Hikari no Korokan Festival 2026). It is about 7 minutes on foot from Akasaka Station on the subway Airport Line, or 12 minutes from Ohori Koen Station (Hikari no Korokan Festival’s official access guide).
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Start with CURRENT in Nokita as your first breakfast choice
You will reach the oyster hut before noon. Keep breakfast light, with coffee and something like 1 slice of toast, to leave room for oysters.
The first breakfast choice is CURRENT in Nokita, featured in the Itoshima Tourism Association’s driving guide for its 8:00–10:00 a.m. breakfast. Choose Surf Side Cafe for breakfast facing the sea at Futamigaura. If the other cafés are full, head to Growwell Cafe, which has a large car park. All are about 35–40 minutes by car from central Fukuoka.
Bakery Restaurant CURRENT (Nokita)
Bakery Restaurant CURRENT serves breakfast from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., with last orders at 10:00 a.m. It closes from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to prepare for lunch, then offers lunch and café service from 11:00 a.m. (CURRENT’s website: morning and lunch). Its October closures are October 5–15, 21 and 28, so it opens on October 24 and 25 (CURRENT’s official website: closing days). The Itoshima Tourism Association’s “3 Driving Routes from Sakurai Futamigaura” introduces its sea views, dishes using Itoshima ingredients and freshly baked bread. The guide also describes its daily breakfast as popular with local residents (Itoshima Tourism Association’s driving guide). Mokkun is about 15–20 minutes away by car.
| Name | Bakery Restaurant CURRENT |
|---|---|
| Address | 2290 Shima Nokita, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | Breakfast 8:00–10:00 (last order 10:00), lunch & café 11:00–18:00 (last order 17:00, Sundays until 19:00) |
| Phone | 092-330-5789 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
Surf Side Cafe (Futamigaura)
The Fukuoka Prefecture Tourism Association’s Crossroad Fukuoka introduces Surf Side Cafe as a beachside café overlooking Futamigaura Beach. It sits inside PALM BEACH THE GARDENS at the entrance to Futamigaura. It opens at 11:00 a.m. on weekdays and 8:00 a.m. on weekends and public holidays. On-site parking offers discounts based on spending (Crossroad Fukuoka: Surf Side Cafe). After breakfast, you can walk straight along the Futamigaura shore.
| Name | Surf Side Cafe |
|---|---|
| Address | 285-B Nishiura, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 11:00–21:00 (last order 20:00), Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 8:00–21:00 (irregular closures, closed New Year holidays) |
| Phone | 092-809-1507 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
Growwell Cafe (Inadome)
Growwell Cafe is the alternative when the two cafés above are full. It opens at 8:30 a.m. on weekends and public holidays, serving breakfast until 11:00 a.m., with last orders at 10:30 a.m. Parking holds more than 30 cars, and the café sometimes closes for group reservations (Growwell’s website: café information). Ordering a main dish as a set includes the salad bar. For something light, the standalone breakfast menu offers a drink bar for ¥825, tax included. The breakfast set with soup, salad bar and drink bar costs ¥1,188, tax included (Growwell Cafe’s official breakfast menu (PDF)). At about 15 minutes by car, this is the closest of the three cafés to Mokkun.
| Name | Growwell Cafe |
|---|---|
| Address | 1-23 Shima Inadome Higashi, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | Weekdays 9:30–16:30, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 8:30–17:30 (breakfast Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 8:30–11:00, last order 10:30). Irregular closures |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
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After breakfast, walk along the Futamigaura or Nokita coast
After breakfast, how about a short seaside walk before heading to the oyster hut?
After Surf Side Cafe, walk by the Meoto Iwa rocks at Futamigaura; after CURRENT, choose Nokita Beach. Staying near your breakfast café keeps travel time short.
Mokkun is about 25–30 minutes by car from Futamigaura, or 15–20 minutes from Nokita. To arrive at 10:30–10:45 a.m., leave Futamigaura before 10:00 a.m. or Nokita around 10:15 a.m.
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Itoshima oyster huts: Mokkun takes no reservations and limits weekend and holiday meals to 120 minutes
After your seaside walk, it is time for the day’s oyster-hut stop.
Funakoshi Fishing Port is one of several ports in Itoshima with oyster huts, so you can choose whichever hut you like. See the English guide to oyster huts in Itoshima for locations and this season’s opening dates. Here, one hut serves as the example used to plan the itinerary.
Kakihouse Mokkun at Funakoshi Fishing Port takes no reservations and limits dining to 120 minutes on weekends and public holidays. It opens at 9:30 a.m. on those days, so this route arrives a little later, at 10:30–10:45 a.m. This season began on Saturday, October 10 (Itoshima Tourism Association’s oyster-hut listings). Last orders are at 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 4:30 p.m. on Sundays and public holidays (Kakihouse Mokkun’s official shop information).
The grill menu includes a serving of live oysters for ¥1,300, live turban shells from ¥1,200, scallops from ¥500 and live bite-size abalone for ¥600. These prices include tax (Kakihouse Mokkun’s official grill menu).
You may bring only drinks and toppings. Free jackets protect against oyster splashes, and children of elementary-school age or younger receive sweets. Orders are placed through LINE (Kakihouse Mokkun’s official shop introduction).
The shared free car park holds 100 cars, and Maebaru IC is about 18 minutes away by car. The hut may close during its usual hours in bad weather or when live oysters sell out, according to the Itoshima Tourism Association.
The hut has irregular closing days, so check its official Instagram (@kakigoya_mokkun) before you go.
| Name | Kakihouse Mokkun |
|---|---|
| Address | 415 Shima Funakoshi, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | Weekdays 10:00–16:00 (last order 15:30), Saturdays 9:30–16:30 (last order 16:00), Sundays and holidays 9:30–17:00 (last order 16:30). Irregular closures |
| Phone | 092-328-1773 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
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After oysters, hike Tateishiyama (about 30 minutes to the summit) or Kayasan (about 1 hour)
After a filling oyster meal, you might feel like stretching your legs on one of these two Itoshima mountains.
For a shorter walk, choose Tateishiyama in Keya, at 210 m, about 30 minutes from trailhead to summit. For a longer hike, choose Kayasan, also called Itoshima Fuji, at 365 m. Its summit is about 1 hour from the Moroyoshi trailhead.
Tateishiyama is about 15 minutes by car from Mokkun. Keya Beach’s second car park, with about 80 spaces, is near the trailhead; you can also climb from the first car park, with about 120 spaces. The summit overlooks the Genkai Sea, the Keya area, Himeshima and distant Karatsu City (Itoshima Tourism Association: Tateishiyama). After descending, allow about 20 minutes by car to Ito no Yudokoro.
Kayasan’s Moroyoshi trailhead is about 15–20 minutes by car from Mokkun. The viewpoint near the summit overlooks the Genkai Sea, and Viewpoint 1 sits along the Moroyoshi trail (Itoshima Tourism Association: Kayasan). Allow about 2 hours for the return hike. Ito no Yudokoro is about 10–15 minutes by car from Moroyoshi, leaving time for a 3:30 p.m. bath.
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Ito no Yudokoro: ¥900 bathing, with no scheduled closure on October 24 or 25
After working up a sweat on the mountain, how about a bath before heading home for the night?
At Ito no Yudokoro in Tomari, Itoshima City, bathing costs ¥900 for adults and ¥470 for children aged 3 through elementary-school grade 6, including weekends. Last entry for bathing is at 10:00 p.m. (Ito no Yudokoro’s official facility information).
Bathing with rental towels costs ¥1,350, while bathing with the heated stone spa costs ¥1,680. A private family bath costs ¥4,800 for 60 minutes for up to 8 people; towels are extra (Ito no Yudokoro’s official prices). Regular closures include the second and third Wednesdays each month, with additional irregular closures; October 24 and 25 do not fall on these regular closing days. Coming from the Tenjin direction, it is about 15 minutes from Imajuku IC.
| Name | Ito no Yudokoro |
|---|---|
| Address | 765 Tomari, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 10:00–23:00 (bathing 10:00–22:30, last reception 22:00). Closed 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of every month, 4th Wednesday except in January, May, August and December, January 1; irregular closures |
| Phone | 092-331-1000 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
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Itosaisai closes at 6:00 p.m.; head to Aeon Itoshima if you cannot make it
After your bath, how about stopping at an Itoshima farmers’ market before heading home?
JA Itoshima Farmers’ Market Itosaisai opens from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., about 10 minutes by car from Ito no Yudokoro. Leave the baths around 5:00 p.m. to shop before closing.
JA Itoshima Farmers’ Market Itosaisai (Hatae)
JA Itoshima’s official page has a daily arrivals section showing what has come in (JA Itoshima’s Itosaisai information page). Central Fukuoka is about 25–30 minutes away by car.
Itosaisai gets busy on weekends, so an evening stop may leave you short of time before closing. If you have specific items to buy, another option is to arrive when it opens at 9:00 a.m. In this itinerary, that means a slight detour after breakfast and before the oyster hut. If you buy fresh seafood or other perishables, an insulated cooler bag helps keep them cold.
If you are unlikely to make it in the evening, head to Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center, about 5–10 minutes by car from Ito no Yudokoro. It opens from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The neighboring fisheries cooperative shop, Shima no Shiki, opens from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; see the next section.
| Name | JA Itoshima Farmers' Market Itosaisai |
|---|---|
| Address | 567 Hatae, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 9:00–18:00 |
| Phone | 092-324-3131 |
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| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
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Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center and Shima no Shiki (Shima Tsuwazaki)
If you miss Itosaisai, Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center opens until 10:00 p.m. every day. It is 5–10 minutes by car from Ito no Yudokoro (Aeon Kyushu: Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center).
Next door, Shima no Shiki is JF Itoshima’s direct-sales shop, open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It sells seafood landed in Itoshima and prepares fish into two fillets and the backbone at no extra charge (JF Itoshima Shima no Shiki: shop guide). To buy fish, stop after the hike and before heading to Ito no Yudokoro.
On the way back, Aeon Fukuoka Ito in Kitahara, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka City, has a food section open until 11:00 p.m. (Aeon Kyushu: Aeon Fukuoka Ito).
| Name | Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center |
|---|---|
| Address | 29-1 Shima Tsuwazaki, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 9:00–22:00 (daily) |
| Phone | 092-330-5020 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
| Name | Shima no Shiki |
|---|---|
| Address | 33-1 Shima Tsuwazaki, Itoshima City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 8:30–17:00 |
| Phone | 092-327-4033 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
| Name | Aeon Fukuoka Ito |
|---|---|
| Address | 1-2-1 Kitahara, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka |
| Hours / Closed | 9:00–23:00 (food), other 9:00–22:00 |
| Phone | 092-805-8100 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
More weekend day trips from Fukuoka
- Asakura day trip: ramen, persimmon picking, onsen and udon
- Yobuko and Karatsu day trip: morning market, squid, cape, castle and onsen
- Dazaifu day trip: shrines, mochi, museum and onsen
- Tosu and Ogori day trip: outlets, ramen, onsen and Costco
- Munakata and Fukutsu day trip: shrines, fish, pines and onsen
Sources
21 pages we checked
- Kakihouse Mokkun: Shop information
- Kakihouse Mokkun: Shop introduction
- Kakihouse Mokkun: Grill menu
- Itoshima Tourism Association: Itoshima oysters and oyster huts
- Itoshima Tourism Association: 3 driving routes from Sakurai Futamigaura
- Bakery Restaurant CURRENT: Home page
- Bakery Restaurant CURRENT: Closing days
- Crossroad Fukuoka: Surf Side Cafe
- Growwell: Official website
- Itoshima Tourism Association: Tateishiyama
- Itoshima Tourism Association: Kayasan
- Ito no Yudokoro: Facility information
- Ito no Yudokoro: Prices and gym membership
- JA Itoshima: Itosaisai farmers’ market
- Aeon Kyushu: Aeon Itoshima Shopping Center
- Aeon Kyushu: Aeon Fukuoka Ito
- JF Itoshima Shima no Shiki: Official website
- Itoshima Tourism Association: Takasu Night Kagura
- Farm Park Itokoku: Autumn Harvest Festival (official blog)
- Fukuoka City: Hikari no Korokan Festival 2026
- Hikari no Korokan Festival: Official website and access
Checked on October 21, 2026 (Japan time).
