Culture Karatsu Kunchi Festival 2025 Nov 2nd - Nov 4th For over 400 years, this autumn festival has been held at Karatsu Shrine and is one of Kyushu's major festival attractions.
Culture Arita Autumn Ceramics Fair 2024 Nov 20th - Nov 24th The Arita Autumn Ceramics Festival is designed as an event where visitors can appreciate the charms of Arita in various ways –..
Culture Oouo Shrine Legend has it that locals invited a corrupt magistrate to a party on Okinoshima Island over three centuries ago. However, after he was lured to the remote..
Culture Arita Ceramics Fair 2025 Apr 29th - May 5th The town of Arita, the birthplace of porcelain in Japan, holds an annual ceramics fair during Golden Week.
6 Culture Tozan Shrine Kim Bergström Arita, in Saga Prefecture, is home to one of Japan's most unique shrines. Tozan Shrine is decked out in pottery, including a..
Culture Mifuneyama Rakuen Mifuneyama Rakuen is a sprawling Japanese garden paradise that covers over 500,000 square meters. Creation began in 1842 and finished in 1845 by Lord..
Culture Saga Castle 4 (1Review) By Japanese standards, Saga Castle is a rather unusual castle. Being built on plains and surrounded by only a wall, whereas most Japanese castles are..
Culture Daikozen Temple Daikōzen-ji is a Tendai temple in Kiyama, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Its honorary sangō prefix is Komatsuzan. [Wikipedia]