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Matsubara Jinja
It enshrines Nabeshima Naoshige, and is affectionately called Nippo-san.
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Balloon Fiesta
One of the largest hot-air balloon events in Asia. Over a hundred balloons gather on the Kase river.
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Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
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Chokokan Museum
A private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.
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Mietsu Naval Dock Site
Where Japan's first working steamship was built; the timber dock survives underground and is deliberately left buried.
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Tidal Flats of the Ariake Sea
A six-metre tidal range leaves mud to the horizon, ranked with the geometric poles of the seaweed farms.
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Creeks of the Saga Plain
A net of channels dug across reclaimed land to hold water; from the air the whole plain reads as a drawing.
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Butsudan of Saga
A strongly Pure Land region kept the altar trade alive, its lacquering, gilding and metalwork divided between hands.
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Nabeshima Dantsu Rugs
Cotton rugs knotted one stitch at a time as domain tribute; the craft lapsed and was reconstructed.
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Christian Sites of Hizen
Christianity arrived early in this province; crosses and inscribed graves survive hidden among ordinary temples.
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Saga Castle Town
The Nagasaki highway ran through here, carrying sugar and Western learning toward Edo.
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Stone Bridges of Saga
Stone-arch technique spread inland from Nagasaki; the way each arch is laid identifies its mason's line.