Saga
Saga is the eponymous capital of Saga prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Most travelers seem to pass by on their way to Nagasaki, but the city does have its share of worthwhile sites if you take the time to stop by and explore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Saga and Saga Castle.
Saga
Railway station
Saga Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company.
Saga Castle
Castle
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Saga Castle is a Japanese castle located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is a hiraijirō, a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain, and is surrounded by a wall rather than being built above a stone base.
Saga Prefectural Museum
Museum
Photo: Sanjo, Public domain.
Saga Prefectural Museum opened in 1970 on the sannomaru site of Saga Castle in the city of Saga, Japan, in 1970. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
Saga
- Categories: city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Saga, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.2639° or 33° 15′ 50″ northLongitude
130.3008° or 130° 18′ 3″ eastPopulation
233,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
HSGUnited Nations Location Code
JP QSGOpen location code
8Q5G7872+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 332181950OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1853303Wikidata ID
Q209766
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saga (stad)”
- Afrikaans: “Saga”
- Arabic: “ساغا، ساغا”
- Arabic: “ساغا”
- Armenian: “Սագա”
- Asturian: “Saga”
- Azerbaijani: “Saqa”
- Basque: “Saga”
- Belarusian: “Сага”
- Bengali: “সাগা”
- Bulgarian: “Сага”
- Catalan: “Saga”
- Cebuano: “Saga Shi”
- Chechen: “Сага (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Сага”
- Chinese: “Saga-chhī”
- Chinese: “佐賀”
- Chinese: “佐賀市”
- Chinese: “佐贺市”
- Czech: “Saga”
- Danish: “Saga”
- Dutch: “Saga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساجا”
- Esperanto: “Saga”
- Estonian: “Saga”
- Finnish: “Saga”
- French: “Saga”
- Galician: “Saga, Xapón”
- Galician: “Saga”
- German: “Saga”
- Greek: “Σάγκα”
- Gujarati: “સાગા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Saga-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tsó-fo-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “סאגה, יפן”
- Hebrew: “סאגה”
- Hindi: “सागा”
- Hungarian: “Szaga”
- Indonesian: “Saga, Saga”
- Indonesian: “Saga”
- Irish: “Saga”
- Italian: “Saga”
- Japanese: “Saga-shi”
- Japanese: “さが”
- Japanese: “サガ”
- Japanese: “さがし”
- Japanese: “サガシ”
- Japanese: “佐賀”
- Japanese: “佐賀市”
- Kannada: “ಸಾಗಾ”
- Korean: “사가 시”
- Korean: “사가시”
- Latvian: “Saga”
- Literary Chinese: “佐賀市”
- Lithuanian: “Saga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Saga”
- Malay: “Saga”
- Marathi: “सागा”
- Mazanderani: “ساگا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saga-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saga”
- Norwegian: “Saga”
- Persian: “ساگا”
- Polish: “Saga”
- Portuguese: “Saga”
- Romanian: “Saga, Saga”
- Romanian: “Saga”
- Russian: “Сага Япония”
- Russian: “Сага”
- Sardinian: “Saga”
- Serbian: “Saga”
- Serbian: “Сага”
- Serbian: “佐賀市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saga, Saga”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saga”
- Sinhala: “සගා”
- Slovenian: “Saga”
- Spanish: “Saga Saga”
- Spanish: “Saga”
- Swahili: “Saga, Saga”
- Swahili: “Saga”
- Swedish: “Saga”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Saga”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod Saga”
- Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Saga”
- Tagalog: “Lunsod Saga”
- Tagalog: “Saga”
- Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Saga”
- Tagalog: “Siyudad Saga”
- Tajik: “Saga”
- Tajik: “Сага”
- Tamil: “சாகா”
- Tatar: “Сага”
- Telugu: “సాగ”
- Thai: “ซะงะ”
- Thai: “ซางะ”
- Turkish: “Saga, Saga”
- Turkish: “Saga”
- Ukrainian: “Саґа”
- Urdu: “سگا، سگا”
- Uzbek: “Saga shahri”
- Venetian: “Saga”
- Vietnamese: “Saga”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Saga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saga”
- Wu Chinese: “佐贺市”
- Yue Chinese: “佐賀市”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Saga”. Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.