今日はお友達とランチの予定でしたがいらっしゃれなかったので昼間の時間が空いたので、急遽、太宰府天満宮に行って見ることにしました。福岡には何度も来ていますが太宰府は少し遠くてこれまで行けずいたのでした。調べてみると、電車だと2度乗り換えをしなくてはならず、バスなら乗り換えなしに行けて時間もバスの方が少し早いくらいだったのでバスの乗ろうとバスターミナルまで行ってチケットを買ったのですが、気がつくと、長蛇の列。１台に乗り切れない人数が並んでいました。なので、払い戻しをしていただだいて電車で行くことにしました。払いものどしをしていただいた時に、「今日は何かあるのですか？」とお聞きすると、「いえ、いつもなんです。外国の方が多くて。すみません。」と（笑）謝られました。日本的ですよね、その方のせいではないのに。
We were going to have lunch with a friend but she couldn't come so we had a free afternoo - so I suggesgted to go to Dazaifu Tenmangu. We'e been to Fukuoka quite a few times but we'd never been there although it's very famous because it's quite far to get to. As you need to change trains twice, which seemed a lot of trouble, we were going to take a bus, which would take shorter than trains and you don't need to change. We went to the bus terminal, bought tickets but then realised the queue for the bus was very very long, there were more people than a bus can take. So we got refund and took trains. When I asked the guy who dealt with the bus tickets if there was something special in Dazaifu, he said, "No, it's like this every day, busy with non-Japanese. Very sorry." It's so Japanese to apologise for the long queue, it wasn't his fault. Anyway, we took trains and it wasn't that bad.
で、電車を2度乗り換えて行って来ました。3つ目の電車は、こんな電車。たった2駅の間を行ったり来たりしている電車です。
This was the 3rd train we took, it's so nicely decorated, it's a train that goes up and down between 2 stations.
そして、太宰府の駅。
This is Dazaifu Station.
駅からすぐでした。京都ほどではなかったですが、やはり海外（韓国や中国）からの観光客でいっぱいでした。でも、太宰府天満宮の中はそれほどでもなかったのです、この参道がいっぱいでした。
Dazaifu was very close, the street that has shops, restaurants and cafe was very busy, not as qute as busy as Kyoto but pretty busy. The funny thing is that inside Dazaifu Tenmangu wasn't that busy.
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