Hawaiian Airlines has started daily nonstop service between Honolulu and Fukuoka, Japan. Fukuoka is the third destination in Japan and fourth in Asia that Hawaiian has launched in the past 17 months, following Tokyo (November 2010), Seoul (January 2011) and Osaka (July 2011). Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and the economic center of Kyushu, the third-largest and most southerly of Japan's four main islands.