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Mifuneyama Rakuen
A garden backed by Mount Mifune. Known for azaleas and autumn colour.
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Hizen Hamashuku
A white-walled town lined with sake breweries. The birthplace of brewery tourism.
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Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
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Former Takatori Residence
A coal baron's house with a Noh stage built into it, and 72 painted cedar doors, no two rooms alike.
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Former Karatsu Bank
Kingo Tatsuno, born here, oversaw this for his home town, and his pupil drew it in the master's manner.
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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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Takeo Onsen Gate
Tatsuno built this vermilion gate at home; eight zodiac animals are carved in its ceiling - the missing four turned up in Tokyo Station.
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Yutoku Inari Shrine
Halls lifted on vermilion posts against a steep slope, built to be looked up at from below.
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Shiotatsu District
A river port whose merchant houses raise their upper floors high and seal their walls thick against fire.
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Taku Confucian Shrine
One of Japan's few surviving Confucian temples, copying the Chinese form in timber, and still holding its rites.
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Tonbai Walls of Arita
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
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Imari Port District
Arita porcelain shipped from this port, which is why the world came to call it Imari instead.
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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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Climbing Kiln Sites of Arita
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillsides; the slope and the number of chambers decided the firing.
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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.
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Arita Porcelain Park
A replica of the Zwinger, built by the Saxon elector who bought Arita porcelain by the shipload - the export destination made visible.