Location List

(From the morning to the evening) A festival to pray for and to give thanks to bumper crop and peace of nation. Music with flutes, drums, “Moryashi (drum)”, “Zenidaiko (a tambourine-like instrume...

A traditional festival started in 1753 to pray for the prevention of plague and to bring a great harvest. At the festival, men carrying three giant Yamakasa floats which are 15 m in height, run thr...

Menburyu is a folk performing art often performed in Kashima city of Saga prefecture. This is a form of goblin mask dance where dancers hang a drum in front of their bodies and dance to the rhythm ...

An autumn festival of Karatsu Shrine. It’s an exciting festival, with people running through Karatsu town pulling 14 Hikiyama floats shouting ‘Enya, Enya, Yoisa, Yoisa’ with the sound and rhythm of...

Jyokozan Seigan Temple was built in 1684 and is the bodaiji (family temple) of the Nabeshima domain from Ogi. The symbol of this temple is the romon (two-storied gate), a Chinese-style gate which e...

Ryosen Temple was the center of Sangaku Buddhism (spiritual practices connected with sacred mountains) from the Heian Period until the middle ages. It is said this temple was established by Tanyo S...

The "jogo-style" house was a popular style of architecture from the end of the Edo period, seen in much of Saga prefecture's southeast such as Kawasoe town, and Fukuoka's southwest. Yamaguchi Famil...

The Doi Family Residence is a solid, imposing building along the historical Nagasaki Kaido, along which passed progressions of daimyo lords on their sankin-kotai, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Musashi...

Shigenobu Okuma, twice prime minister of Japan and founder of Waseda University, was born in Saga. At Kaishokoji in Saga city (modern day Mizugae), where Shigenobu spent his childhood, there is a c...

The Nanatsugama Caves, designated as a natural monument of Japan, are spectacular caves formed from the infamous rough waves of the Genkai Sea pounding against the cliffs and eroding them away over...

A coast lined with several giant rocks pointing straight up to the heavens. Of these, Tategami Rock is the most striking, consisting of two giant basalt rocks which are six meters in circumference ...

Niji-no-Matsubara, stretching along the Karatsu Bay coastline, is designated as a national scenic beauty spot and is considered one of the three greatest pine forests of Japan together with Miho-no...

Arita Porcelain Park is a park which could only have been created in the home of Arita-yaki, a pottery style which influenced ceramics and porcelain around the world and fascinated European royalty...

Kyoseki (giant stone) Park is themed on the cluster of giant stones near Kawakami Gorge in Yamato town, Saga city. Kyoseki Park is considered to be the sacred body of the kami of Yodohime Shrine, w...

Ureshino is famous for its hot springs and for its history as a flourishing post station along the Nagasaki Kaido which joined Okura and Nagasaki. Hizen Yume Kaido has recreated the atmosphere of U...

Kouno Park is famous for its sakura cherry blossoms. Kakurintei was built inside this park as a tea house for Saga Domain's 10th ruler, Naomasa Nabeshima. In those days, Kakurintei served as a gues...

Karatsu Castle, a symbol of the city, was constructed in 1608 after seven years of construction beginning in 1602 by the first lord of the Karatsu Domain, Hirotaka Terasawashimanokami. Karatsu Cast...

The Nagoya Castle and Annex Building Ruins, a national historic site spanning from the city of Karatsu to the town of Genkai, was constructed for Hideyoshi Toyotomi as the staging point for the Bun...

Ookawachiyama, located in the town of Imari, used to be home to the Nabeshima domain Kilns, which produced a number of masterpiece porcelains such as "Iro Nabeshima", "Nabeshima Sometsuke" and "Nab...

The Giant Camphor of Kawago, located in Wakaki town, Takeo city is the 5th biggest tree in Japan according to a national survey on giant trees and woods and is designated as a natural monument of J...

Meisei Sakura grows within the grounds of Kannon Temple in Urakawauchi of Higashiyamashiro town, Imari city. This giant tree is surrounded in a stone wall and measures 5 meters around the roots, 13...

Ariake Saga Airport offers a certain kind of appeal that only an airport can. From the observation deck, not only can one watch the planes land and take off, but also enjoy a 360 degree panoramic v...

The Chikugo River Lift Bridge, the symbol of Morodomi town in Saga city, spans the biggest river in Kyushu, Chikugo River, and is one of only a handful of moveable life railway bridges in the world...

Saga Castle History Museum offers an easy-to-understand introduction of Saga’s attractiveness and energy during the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a time in history which paved the way for Japan's...