Fukuoka DOOH · Tenjin · Hakata · Nakasu · Canal City · June 2026
Kyushu's largest city with a metro near 2.6 million, from the Tenjin shopping core to Hakata Station to the Nakasu nightlife island, bookable by the hour, priced per play, matched to how Fukuoka actually moves.
Fukuoka billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Tenjin, Canal City Hakata and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Fukuoka screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.32, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Fukuoka play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the arteries at commute peak, the malls through the afternoon, the nightlife and tourist cores after dark.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and footfall, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The largest downtown in Kyushu, dense with department stores, fashion blocks and offices, and the strongest place to reach a peak-hour shopping crowd.
The bullet-train and commuter gateway with the JR Hakata City complex above it, moving the heaviest daily transport flow in the city.
The neon island between the Naka and Hakata rivers, packed with bars, clubs and yatai food stalls, and the city's prime after-dark stage.
The landmark canal-themed shopping and entertainment complex carrying heavy indoor and roadside retail traffic through every season.
The boutique, cafe and bar quarter just west of Tenjin, a quieter way to reach a fashion-led younger audience with strong dwell.
The Momochi seaside district under the 234 metre Fukuoka Tower, with the dome stadium and beach park drawing leisure and event crowds.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Fukuoka's media owners, LIVE BOARD, MCDecaux (JCDecaux Japan), Nishitetsu Agency among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a highway bulletin to a single mall screen, Blindspot puts Fukuoka's digital out-of-home and classic OOH formats on one map, each priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter here:
Large-format LED on highways, bridges and boulevards, motion, dayparting and dynamic triggers.
Pedestrian-scale panels and citylights in high-footfall retail and downtown corridors.
Highway and arterial bulletins built for commuter frequency on the busiest routes.
High-intent shoppers from midday to evening across the city's retail destinations.
Fukuoka City Subway and Nishitetsu bus station screens plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Fukuoka is the largest city in Kyushu and one of the fastest-growing in Japan, a compact port capital where the airport sits minutes from downtown. Tenjin is the shopping, fashion and department-store heart west of the Naka River, while Hakata Station anchors the bullet-train and commuter flow on the east. The Nakasu island packs the city's neon nightlife and yatai food stalls along the water, Canal City draws steady mall footfall, and Ohori Park and the Momochi seaside under Fukuoka Tower hold the leisure crowd. Buy the Hakata morning commute and the Tenjin evening peak.
Hakata Station and the main arteries surge 7:30–10 AM and 5–8 PM. Book exactly those hours and your frequency climbs for the same budget.
Canal City Hakata and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Tenjin shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Fukuoka doesn't have one rush hour; it has rotating audiences sharing the same streets. The only buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the windows when your audience owns the city, skip the ones when it doesn't.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch | Tenjin + Hakata Station | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Nakasu, Hakata Station | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Canal City Hakata, Tenjin | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | Daimyo, Hakata Station | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Tenjin, Momochi | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Fukuoka’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Morning commuters read in 2 seconds; evening crowds dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: startups and tech, since Fukuoka is a National Strategic Special Zone for global startups and the first Japanese city to offer a startup visa, with the Fukuoka Growth Next hub based in Daimyo (see DOOH for startups), and food and nightlife, concentrated in Nakasu, one of Japan's largest entertainment districts and home to the city's open-air yatai stalls (see DOOH for restaurants).
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roadside & arterial digital | from ~$0.32 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on the city arterials | drive-time commuter reach |
| Tenjin shopping-core digital | from ~$0.52 per play | the department-store and fashion blocks | peak-hour shopper footfall |
| Hakata Station hub digital | from ~$0.50 per play | the bullet-train and commuter gateway | all-day daily reach |
| Nakasu nightlife digital | from ~$0.46 per play | the neon island and yatai blocks | after-dark dining and going-out crowd |
| Subway & Nishitetsu transit screens | from ~$0.36 per play | the station and bus network | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Fukuoka screen: the format (pricing runs higher on subway & Nishitetsu transit screens than on roadside & arterial digital), the zone (Tenjin carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Commute test
A week of morning and evening bursts around the Hakata Station hub.
Multi-zone Fukuoka push
Tenjin, Hakata Station and Nakasu running together across peak dayparts.
Citywide flagship
Full Tenjin and Hakata saturation timed to the Hakata Gion Yamakasa or a tourism season.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, LIVE BOARD, MCDecaux (JCDecaux Japan), Nishitetsu Agency among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Specs vary by screen: orientation, resolution and file format differ from one panel to the next. Every screen shows its exact requirements in the platform before you upload, so there's no separate spec sheet to track down before you book.
Yes. Every Fukuoka screen on Blindspot is bookable by the hour, with no minimum contract and no retainer. You pick the exact windows, so you can buy the morning commute on Hakata Station, the afternoon retail stretch around Canal City Hakata, or the evening social hours in Tenjin, and skip everything between. Because you pay per play instead of for a fixed four-week flight, the same budget concentrated into proven peak windows buys more useful frequency than the same money spread across every hour including the overnight ones nobody sees. Availability and the per-play price are visible before you commit, and you can start with one screen and one daypart.
Blindspot puts the bookable digital out-of-home screens across Fukuoka on a single map: roadside and boulevard LED, street-level panels and citylights, transit and station screens, mall and place-based displays, and landmark placements, all priced per play and bookable by the hour. That spans zones from Tenjin through to Momochi & Fukuoka Tower. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as LIVE BOARD, MCDecaux (JCDecaux Japan) and Nishitetsu Agency, and Blindspot books time on their existing, already-permitted structures rather than reselling a fixed package. You see each screen, its zone, its per-play price and its live availability before committing, so you are choosing specific screens and hours rather than buying an unspecified network bundle.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Content approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than most people expect, because you are buying plays rather than weeks. A $500 budget in Fukuoka typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as Hakata Station, a concentrated burst across the busiest retail and transit screens at peak hours only, or thousands of plays on central urban panels where the per-play price is lowest. At entry prices around $0.32 per play, the arithmetic is straightforward and visible before you commit. What it will not stretch to is 24/7 coverage of a landmark spectacular, and that is the point of hourly buying: concentrate a small budget where and when it is seen instead of thinning it across hours with no audience.
No. Blindspot has no minimums, retainers or platform fees; you can run a focused hourly burst on a single screen or a full multi-zone Fukuoka campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
01
Open the map, filter Fukuoka by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
02
Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
03
Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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