Ranked shortlist · 10 of 42 travel and transportation
Best travel and transportation in Fukuoka
The 10 most notable travel and transportation in Fukuoka, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
西日本鉄道 桧原自動車営業所
南区桧原4-8-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.842, percentile 100 of 42
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2
ヤマト運輸博多の森営業所
1 Chome-6-14 Kukomae
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.666, percentile 97.56 of 42
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3
ニシヒロ
東区蒲田2丁目38-20
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.586, percentile 95.12 of 42
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4
西日本鉄道
城南区片江2丁目9-48
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.576, percentile 92.68 of 42
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5
西新
早良区城西3-14-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.526, percentile 90.24 of 42
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6
宇美営業所バス停
宇美町宇美6-7-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.481, percentile 87.8 of 42
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7
バジェットレンタカー福岡空港前店
博多区空港前3-2-25
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.466, percentile 85.37 of 42
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8
那珂川営業所
道善5
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.367, percentile 82.93 of 42
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9
渡辺通一丁目・Fm福岡前バス停
中央区清川/高砂
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.219, percentile 80.49 of 42
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10
天神日銀前バス停
中央区天神4
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.202, percentile 78.05 of 42
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).