Places to seeWhere to go in Saga
Start with the first of these. Each is worth half a day.
Saga佐賀県
Saga is small, flat and usually driven straight through on the way to Nagasaki — which is exactly why it is quiet.
Saga is small, flat and usually driven straight through on the way to Nagasaki — which is exactly why it is quiet.
Start with the first of these. Each is worth half a day.
It is the porcelain prefecture. Clay was found here about four hundred years ago, and the towns of Arita and Imari have been firing white porcelain with blue and red painting ever since. You can buy a cup in the town it was made in, from the person who made it.
Getting in: Shin-Tosu Station (shinkansen) · Saga Airport · 35 min from Hakata
Pick the season first and the days will arrange themselves.
Tea fields turn bright green in May. Cherry blossom at Karatsu Castle in early April.
Wet in June. Balloons fill the sky over Saga city at the end of the season in some years.
The best time for the kilns and the pottery markets, and for the shrine.
Quiet and cold. Hot springs and porcelain, which is a good enough day.
