Fukuoka prefecture has exactly one entry among the hundred cherry sites, and this is it. Nishi Park stands on a rise near the middle of the city, and the park's own site gives about 1,300 trees, Somei-yoshino together with yoko-zakura and other kinds. Three separate lookout grounds are set along the ridge, and from them the view takes in the streets below, Hakata Bay, the sandbar of Uminonakamichi and the island of Shikanoshima.

The hill was known for something else long before the trees were counted.

When Nagamasa Kuroda moved his seat to Fukuoka, Tosho-gongen was enshrined here as a guardian deity and the ground was known as a sacred hill and a scenic place, according to the same site. Near the summit stands Terumo shrine, which enshrines Kuroda Josui and his son Nagamasa. The park drew people for its outlook and its shrines first, and the cherry planting arrived at a place that was already a destination.

That order shows in the layout. The trees follow paths and terraces cut to reach viewpoints rather than to display blossom, so the walk keeps turning to face the water instead of running under an unbroken canopy, and anyone who comes only for the flowers will still spend much of the visit looking outward. The timing given on this page is not the park's: no peak-bloom period is published for it, and the range comes from the weather record for Fukuoka, where full bloom falls on 31 March in the 1991 to 2020 average.