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Ceramics culture in Karatsu, Imari and Arita

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Saga Top 10

  1. Saga International Balloon Fiesta
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    Saga International Balloon Fiesta

    Saga City
  2. Arita Ceramics Fair
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    Arita Ceramics Fair

    Arita
  3. Hydrangeas at Mikaeri Falls
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    Hydrangeas at Mikaeri Falls

    Activities
  4. Yūtoku Inari Shrine
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    Yūtoku Inari Shrine

    Culture
  5. Kiyomizu Waterfall
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    Kiyomizu Waterfall

    Photostory
  6. Karatsu Kunchi Festival
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    Karatsu Kunchi Festival

    Culture
  7. Top 10 Experiences in Saga
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    Top 10 Experiences in Saga

    Saga City
  8. Kashima Gatalympics
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    Kashima Gatalympics

    Culture
  9. Yoshinogari Koen, Saga
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    Yoshinogari Koen, Saga

    Culture
  10. Carp Streamers in Rural Saga
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    Carp Streamers in Rural Saga

    Saga City

Upcoming Saga Events

Cosmos Season at Kinryu Park
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Cosmos Season at Kinryu Park

Oct 1st - Oct 15th

Each year around the early October timeframe, Saga's Kinryu Park is filled with the color of thousands of cosmos flowers in..

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Where to eat in Saga

Gallery Arita 7
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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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Café Notch
Cafe

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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Places to stay in Saga

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Latest Saga Reports

Super Saga City
Culture

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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Saga Prefectural Museum
Culture

Saga Prefectural Museum

Kim

The Saga Prefectural Museum serves as a window into the region's archeology, culture, history, and folklore. Alongside the permanent..

Saga Airport
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Saga Airport

Kim

Saga Airport provides domestic connections to Tokyo's Haneda and Narita Airports, as well as international routes to China,..

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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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