The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

For me, Coach & Four (pronounce something like "ko-changfour") is the biggest attraction in Sapporo I have found so far. Basically everything I need is here. 

This huge suburban bookstore with a variety of non-book departments offers:

a. A single-storey shopping floor,

b. An in-store cafe, which is not Starbucks, but my lifelong favourite Mr Donuts, with a free coffee refill cart comes around,

 c. Simple and quiet book displays, without pedantic comments from complete strangers to me, making it easier to find what you want,

d. Professional staff, attentive enough but not pushy, 

e. A huge selection of books, probably wider that those of  Junkudo or Kinokuniya in the city centre,

g. My favourite snack, made in Toyama,

in the food section, where there is a collection of good (though mostly highly processed) food from all over Japan.

Fukuoka is far behind to Sapporo in this respect. We have Tsutaya and other fancy looking bookshops, but this simple but extremely customer-friendly style is much more attractive and inspiring, and purchase-stimulating, at least for me.

  I'd love to live next to this store, but I'm quite sure I would go broke in a week or so if I actually lived within 1.5km of it.