On Air: Fukuoka City Information/2014.06.14(Sat)/09:00～

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Fukuoka National Highway Office and Fukuoka City are taking progressive measures to ensure that finding one’s way in Fukuoka is easy for foreign visitors. It’s doing so through the introduction of street signs designed to be easy to understand for foreigners. Fukuoka is an area targeted for the Project to Prepare an Environment for Receiving International Visitors to Japan and is currently working on improving the English labeling of areas along Kokutai-doro Avenue.

In February, along National Highway 202, Kokutai-doro Avenue, the street signs in the area from the Gion-machi Intersection to the Gion-machi-nishi Intersection were re-done as an experimental part of the program. Fukuoka plans to continue expanding the area with relabeled signs for approximately another 11 kilometers, up through central Fukuoka, by the next fiscal year.

As it does so, the city is interested in hearing opinions regarding its efforts from both foreigners as well as from Japanese who help provide directions to people. It is asking for your cooperation with answering a questionnaire about this project. The questionnaire looks at whether or not people can understand the abbreviations and language used on the signs, and if they feel that the relabeling does in fact make finding one’s way around easier than before.

The questionnaire can be downloaded from the Internet. The address is http://www.qsr.mlit.go.jp/fukkoku/pressH26/H26.5/140526-1/01.pdf

Please help the city make travel in Fukuoka enjoyable and simple for foreign visitors by sharing your thoughts in the questionnaire.

For further information, please contact the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kyushu Regional Development Bureau Fukuoka National Highway Office Traffic Measures Section. The phone number to call is 092-681-4731.