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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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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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Tozan Shrine
Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.
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Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln
To stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
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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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Nagoya Castle Ruins
Built in a single year as the base for invading Korea, ringed by 130 lords' camps - and abandoned seven years later.
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Yoshinogari Site
Japan's largest Yayoi settlement, its moats, palisades and watchtowers reconstructed across forty hectares.
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Saga Castle History Museum
Japan's first full timber reconstruction of a castle palace, including a 320-mat hall rebuilt with few columns.
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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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Mifuneyama Rakuen
A lord's garden three years in the making, now overlaid each summer night by teamLab's light works.
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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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Hizen Hamashuku
Two streets preserved side by side: one of white-walled breweries, one of thatched townhouses.
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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.