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Holidays in Japan? Plan them with us.Over 2,000 real places, a day-by-day itinerary.FreeOpen the map →- Former Takatori Residence (旧高取邸) A nō stage set into a tatami room: perhaps the only surviving example in Japan.
- Great Camphor Tree of Takeo (武雄の大楠) 20 metres in circumference, estimated at 3,000 years old: the seventh largest tree in Japan.
- Hamanoura Rice Terraces From mid-April the water in 283 paddies reflects the sunset over the sea in a golden mosaic.
- Kagamiyama (鏡山) Matsuura Sayohime waved her scarf here: hence the name, ‘mountain of waving’.
- Karatsu Castle (唐津城) Known as the ‘castle of the flying crane’: the tenshu you can see is a 1966 rebuild.
- Karatsu Kunchi Float Exhibition Hall Fourteen floats of lacquer and gold, UNESCO-listed since 2016, parade from 2 to 4 November every year.
- Kyūshū Ceramic Museum (佐賀県立九州陶磁文化館) An Arita porcelain clock and a Meissen bell chime together in the hall.
- Mifuneyama Rakuen (御船山楽園) 200,000 azaleas beneath a 210-metre cliff: three years of work, completed in 1845.
- Nagoya Castle Ruins In five months, in 1592, it became the second city of Japan after Osaka, for seven years.
- Nanatsugama — the seven sea caves (七ツ釜) The largest of the seven sea caves: 3 m wide, 110 deep, in basalt.
- Niji no Matsubara (Rainbow Pine Grove) A million pines planted in the seventeenth century: cutting one down was once a capital offence.
- Ōkawachiyama, the village of the secret kilns From 1675 to 1871, the secret Nabeshima kiln: no entry for anyone who was not a craftsman.
- Saga Castle Honmaru History Museum The Shachi-no-mon gate of 1838 still bears the bullet holes of the 1874 rebellion.
- Saga Space Science Museum — Yumeginga (佐賀県立宇宙科学館 ゆめぎんが) Opened in 1999; its planetarium and observatory welcome over 250,000 visitors a year.
- Sueyama Shrine, the porcelain torii The Sasebo Line train crosses the approach path, in front of the porcelain torii.
- Takeo Library (武雄市図書館・歴史資料館) Open 9:00–21:00 all year round: the first Japanese public library with a Starbucks inside.
- Takeo Onsen Rōmon Gate The red gate of 1915, by the architect of Tokyo Station, does not use a single nail.
- Ureshino Onsen Siebold Footbath Free 24 hours a day, in water of pH 7.8: one of the three in Japan that leave the skin smoothest.
- Yobuko Morning Market From 7:30 to noon: one of the four great morning markets of Japan.
- Yoshinogari Historical Park Watchtowers and a double moat protect the largest Yayoi village in Japan.
- Yutoku Inari Shrine The shrine on stilts welcomes three million visitors a year; it was rebuilt in 1957.