Saga

Saga is the eponymous capital of on the island of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 233,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sagashi”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
Photo: Pekachu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Peka, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saga and Saga Castle.

Railway station
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Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of , , Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company.

Castle
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is a Japanese castle located in Saga City, , . 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.

Museum
Photo: Sanjo, Public domain.
opened in 1970 on the sannomaru site of in the city of Saga, Japan, in 1970. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.

Saga

Latitude
33.2639° or 33° 15′ 50″ north
Longitude
130.3008° or 130° 18′ 3″ east
Population
233,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
HSG
United Nations Location Code
JP QSG
Open location code
8Q5G7872+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332181950
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1853303
Wiki­data 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”
  • Aragonese: “Saga”
  • Armenian: “Սագա”
  • Asturian: “Saga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saqa”
  • Balinese: “Saga, Saga”
  • 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”
  • 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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