"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bcmjr601rnj@drn.newsguy.com...
> Anyone know Fukuoka city?

I do.

>
> Looking at a map there could possibly be beaches outside the bay. Really?

There are beaches very near the city, but you wouldn't want to go swimming
there.  Well, you might.  I wouldn't.  A little further west, an hour or so
by car there are better spots, or so I have heard.  Whenever I want to go
the beach I go to Thailand.