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Ceramics culture in Karatsu, Imari and Arita

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Hamanoura (Photo: Hamanoura(Saga) – kanegen / CC BY 2.0)

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Saga Top 10

  1. Arita Ceramics Fair
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    Arita Ceramics Fair

    Arita
  2. Saga International Balloon Fiesta
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    Saga International Balloon Fiesta

    Saga City
  3. Top 10 Experiences in Saga
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    Top 10 Experiences in Saga

    Saga City
  4. Yūtoku Inari Shrine
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    Yūtoku Inari Shrine

    Culture
  5. Karatsu Kunchi Festival
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    Karatsu Kunchi Festival

    Culture
  6. Arita Ceramic Fair
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    Arita Ceramic Fair

    Arita
  7. Hydrangeas at Mikaeri Falls
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    Hydrangeas at Mikaeri Falls

    Activities
  8. Kiyomizu Waterfall
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    Kiyomizu Waterfall

    Photostory
  9. Carp Streamers in Rural Saga
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    Carp Streamers in Rural Saga

    Saga City
  10. Nagoya Castle Ruins in Saga
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    Nagoya Castle Ruins in Saga

    Culture

Where to eat in Saga

Café Notch
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Café Notch

Tristan Scholze

Café Notch brings together home cooking and healthy local products in a beautiful log cabin set in a mountainside village.

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Gallery Arita

Kim

At Gallery Arita in Saga Prefecture, you can enjoy your coffee with a unique spin. The cafe is adorned with walls of beautiful Arita..

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Places to stay in Saga

Sunhotel Tosu
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Sunhotel Tosu

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In the morning the hotel offers a buffet style breakfast from 6:30 am to 9:30 am. Usually, they prepare Japanese food including..

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Latest Saga Reports

Daishoji Hydrangea Festival
Activities

Daishoji Hydrangea Festival

Kim

Throughout the month of June, Saga Prefecture's Daishoji Temple hosts a hydrangea festival to celebrate these seasonal flowers...

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Sakura Season at Ogi Park
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Sakura Season at Ogi Park

Kim

Saga's Ogi Park is a picturesque spot to visit during spring when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, and it was designated as..

Super Saga City
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Super Saga City

Arlene Bastion

Saga's small size is no obstacle to enjoying something of Japanese life, albeit in miniature, but still memorable.

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About Saga

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Kyushu
Island Kyushu
Capital Saga
Population 849,788
Area 2440.64 km²

The smallest prefecture in Kyushu, Saga Prefecture (佐賀県, Saga-ken) is the perfect getaway from the more-populated nearby areas of Fukuoka and Nagasaki.

Travel through time at the Yoshinogari Ruins, while Karatsu Castle and Yutoku Inari Shrine, one of the three largest Inari shrines in Japan, are also places of note.

Saga is also famous for its quirky events; a popular event held in early November (often coinciding with Karatsu Kunchi, another famous festival) is the Saga International Balloon Fiesta, one of the largest hot air balloon competitions in the world. The Kashima “Gatalympics” in May and/or June involve competitions done on mudflats, resulting in pretty much everyone being covered in mud.

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