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Around 100 colorful hot air balloons starting to expand at the dry riverbed in the morning glow. Then, they rise to the autumn sky above the Saga Plain. Its scenery is very impressive!
Name
Saga International Balloon Fiesta
Address
Kase River Side, Ogino Kase-cho, Saga-shi, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from JR Saga Balloon Station. By car or taxi, 20 min from Saga Station, 30 min from Saga Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available
Designed by Team Lab, 'Forest of Resonating Lamps' that lights like going with us, has appeared at a lobby of Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel! Open the door, and the another world will wait you.
Name
Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel
Address
4100 Otake, Takeo-shi, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0954-23-3131
How to get there
8 min by bus from JR Otake Onsen Station to Mifuneyama Rakuen. By car, 5 min from JR Mifuneyama Station, 45 min from Saga city, 50 min from Saga Airport, or 70 min from Fukuoka Airport.
Parking
Free parking area is available
When the tide is low, we can walk under the torii arch standing in the sea. It shows us the different scenery by the time we visit here.
Name
Ōuo Shrine
Address
1874-9 Tara, Tara-cho, Fujitsu-gun, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min walk from Tara Station
Parking
Parking area is available
Like steps climbing up from the seashore, Hamanoura Terraced Rice Field is formed on the mountain slope. The scenery of the evening sun lightening the field is very visionary. During the end of April to the beginning of May, the rice fields draw water, and the sun comes to the center. Many people visit to see this scenery.◎For the parking area gets crowded during the best season, so you should arrive earlier if you want to see the evening sun.
Name
Hamanoura Terraced Rice Fields
Address
Hamanoura Genkai-cho, Higashimatsura-gun, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
30 min by car from JR Karatsu Station. Parking area is available. 45 min by bus from Karatsu (Oteguchi) Bus Center to Hamanoura Bus Stop, then walk 5 min.
Parking
Parking area is available
10 thousand trees, and 130 thousand square meters forest are in autumn colors. What's more, we can see the autumn leaf reflections at Fuyu Sanso House.◎Admission fees: 500 yen. Parking area is free.
Name
Kankyo Geijutsu Forest
Address
667 Hirano Kyuragi-machi, Karatsu-shi, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0955-63-2433
Fee
Adult 500 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
By car or taxi, 10 min from Kyuragi Station, 45 min from Saga Station, or 60 min from Saga Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available
Yūtoku Inari Jinja is a big shrine where about three million visitors come in a year, and one of the three biggest Inari Shrines in Japan. The shrine building is as magnificent as famous Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. It's like a light mountain climbing to go to The Inner Shrine, and there're many torii arches, so we can see the beautiful scenes on the way.
Name
Yūtoku Inari Shrine
Address
1855 Otsu, Furueda, Kashima-shi, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0954-62-2151
How to get there
10 min by car or taxi from Hizenhama Station
Parking
Free parking area is available
Takeo Shrine in Takeo-shi, Saga. Its sacred tree is a huge camphor tree. In the afternoon, the sun shines from the back of it, and the shining tree looks divine, that I can't say nothing except for 'divine'.
Name
Takeo Shrine
Address
5327 Takeo Takeo-cho, Takeo-shi, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0954-22-2976
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
At as large as 96.9ha site, you can experience the life in Yayoi era (4th century BC-3th century). The buildings and a sanctuary that royal families and people had lived are reconstructed. And the important cultural properties like you see on the schoolbooks are excavated one after another.
Name
Yoshinogari Historical Park
Address
1843 Tade Yoshinogari-cho, Kanzaki-gun, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0952-55-9333
Hours
9:00-17:00,9:00-18:00
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
This library can change our image of Takeo, a calm onsen town. We can enjoy also TUTAYA and Starbucks at the first floor.
Name
Takeo City Library
Address
5304-1 Takeo, Takeo-cho, Takeo-shi, SagaGoogle Map
Tel
0954-20-0222
Hours
9:00-21:00
How to get there
5 min by car or taxi from Takeo Onsen Station
Parking
Parking area is available
Nagoya Castle (it's 名護屋城 in Saga, different from 名古屋城 in Aichi) was built as a base for the dispatch of troops to Korea by Hideyoshi Toyotomi. It's selected as a special national historic site, and one of the 100 best castles in Japan. You, if not a fan of history, can enjoy beautiful scenery of Kabeshima Island and Yobuko Great Bridge!
Name
Nagoya Castle (名護屋城)
Address
1931 Nagoya Chinzei-machi, Karatsu-shi, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
70 min by car from Taku IC. Or 30 min by bus from Nishi-karatsu Station to 'Nagoya Castle Museum', then 5 min walk.
Parking
Parking area is available
Outside the park, there's the vast tideland as long as 4-5 kilometers! You can see 'Mutsugoro' mudskippers with lovely blue spots (the first pic), 'Tobihaze' mudskippers (the 3rd pic), Fiddler Crab, and many wild birds, like their paradise!◎I emphasized Mutsugoro in the above, in fact, it's famous as a paradise of wild birds registered under the Ramsar Convention. You should check the tide table beforehand. The low tide is better to see the living creatures of tideland, and high tide is better to see the birds. To get there, you need basically cars, but only on weekends and holidays, Saga City Bus has 'World Heritage Tour Bus' from Saga Station.
Name
Higata (Tideland) Yoka Park
Address
2885-2 Shimokoga Higashiyoka-cho, Saga-shi, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 30 min from Saga Station of JR Nagasaki Honsen Line, 45 min from Sagayamato IC
Parking
Parking area is available
The northern part of Saga Prefecture, Karatsu has 'Niji-no Matsubara' which is one of the three most scenic pinewoods in Japan. There's an observatory on the top of Kagamiyama Mountain, and the scenery of the city and Karatsu Bay is so beautiful that I feel my heart becomes clean. The pinewood like a green thick belt, blue ocean, and islands in the Bay... It's a refreshing and great view!
Name
Kagamiyama Observatory
Address
Top of the Kagamiyama Mountaon, Karatsu-shi, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
8 min by car or taxi from Niji-no Matsubara Station
Parking
Parking area is available
A huge cherry blossom tree standing on a hill. Many canola flowers spreads under the tree, and the scenery is like a heaven. We can enjoy Otake Onsen hot spring near here, too.
Name
Baba's Mountain Cherry Blossom
Address
21236 Mateno, Takeuchi-cho, Takeo-shi, SagaGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min by car or taxi from Nagao Station