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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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Arita Ceramics Fair

Arita Ceramics Fair

Late Apr - Early May

The town of Arita, the birthplace of porcelain in Japan, holds an annual ceramics fair during Golden Week.

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Kashima Gatalympics

Kashima Gatalympics

Early Jun

Japan's craziest sporting event held on the mudflats of Kashima.

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Where to eat in Saga

Fuunoki Shokudo

Fuunoki Shokudo

Kim

Fuunoki Shokudo is a home style cooking restaurant, with both Japanese and Western style offerings available. Across the street..

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Café Notch

Café Notch

Tristan Scholze

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

Places to stay in Saga

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Two Stars 4047

Two Stars 4047

Guillaume Doré

The Two Stars 4047 is a scenic train that run between Takeo onsen and Nagasaki. Enjoy the slower travel while riding a beautiful..

Takeo Jinja

Takeo Jinja

Guillaume Doré

Located near the city library, Takeo jinja is a quiet shrine known for it’s old camphor tree and married couple cypress.

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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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