Riverwalk Kitakyushu is a prestigious commercial complex, 10 minutes walk from Kokura Station, the gateway to northern Kyushu, and surrounded by the Kokura Castle gardens, Katsuyama Park and Yasaka Shrine. Facing Murasaki River, it was surrounded by nature and with its own rich greenery and history, is important in terms of culture, art, dispatching of information, and commerce. Riverwalk Kitakyushu was opened as part of the Kitakyushu Renaissance policy on April 19, 2003.

It’s a new cultural mixed-use center. Riverwalk Kitakyushu project is to create a huge town complex, a place for the high and popular arts, incorporates Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center which consists of small-medium-large halls, conference facilities, Asahi Newspaper and NHK Broadcasting, retail and entertainment venues, Deco City which is the largest shopping mall in northern Kyushu, a cinema complex, the head offices of Zenrin Co. and the Asahi Shinbun (West area), and a branch of the Kitakyushu city art museum. It also establishes a new symbol of cultural and civic pride in the city of Kitakyushu, Japan.

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