Yame
Hoshi no Bunkakan
An observatory in Yame City. Visitors can experience the night sky through a 100 cm telescope and a planetarium.
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FIRST VISIT GUIDE
Before tracing culture and history — how shrines and temples differ, and how to pay respects
Many of Japan's cultural properties are found at shrines or temples. The two belong to different religions, and their entrances and ways of worship differ. Start with the differences and the etiquette.678 entries / page 25 of 29
Yame
Yame Handmade Washi Museum
A museum in Yame City. Visitors can learn the process of Yame handmade washi and try making items such as cards and postcards.
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Saga Castle History Museum
A timber reconstruction of the main hall of Saga Castle, telling the story of the domain in the late Edo period.
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Saga Shrine
A shrine in Saga City honouring Naomasa Nabeshima and other lords of the domain.
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Nakatomi Memorial Medicine Museum
A museum in Tosu on the history of the patent-medicine trade that flourished here.
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Saga Prefectural Nagoya Castle Museum and Nagoya Castle Ruins
A museum and castle site in Karatsu, on the castle Toyotomi Hideyoshi built as his base for the Korean campaigns.
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Daiō Shrine Sea Torii and Sea Road
Torii in Tara. With the tides of the Ariake Sea, their feet sink beneath the water.
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Yūtoku Inari Shrine, Japanese Garden, and Yūtoku Museum
A shrine in Kashima, counted among Japan's three great Inari, with vermilion halls built out on pillars.
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Takeo Shrine and Takeo no Ōkusu
A shrine in Takeo with a camphor tree said to be 3,000 years old standing behind it.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
JMSDF Sasebo Museum (Sail Tower)
A museum in Sasebo gathering material on the old navy, run by the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
View of Temples and Churches
A view in Hirado in which temple roofs and a church spire fall within one frame.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
Iwato Shrine
A shrine in Minamishimabara, its hall set in a cleft of rock in the forest.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryGoto Islands
Doozaki Church
A church in Goto, built of brick in 1908; a prefectural cultural property.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
Kojima Shrine
A shrine in Iki. At low tide the approach appears and you can walk out to the island.
Nagasaki
Oni no Iwaya Kofun
A burial mound in Iki, whose 17-metre chamber is the longest in the prefecture.
Nagasaki
Kaneda Castle
An ancient mountain fortress in Tsushima, built for defence after the defeat at Baekgang; a special national historic site.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
Banshoin Temple
A temple in Tsushima, mortuary temple of the So lords of the domain; a national historic site.