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opened in 1970 on the ''sannomaru'' site of
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 castle was home ...
in the city of
Saga is a series of science fantasy role-playing video games by Square Enix. The series originated on the Game Boy in 1989 as the creation of Akitoshi Kawazu at Square (video game company), Square. It has since continued across multiple platforms, ...
, Japan, in 1970. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. The museum displays materials relating to the natural history, archaeology, history, art, craft, and folklore of
Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasak ...
. Adjacent is the , which opened in 1983 as part of the centennial celebrations of the establishment of Saga Prefecture.


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Hizen Province was an old province of Japan in the area of the Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Higo Province. Hizen bordered on the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo. The province was included in Saikaidō. It did not inclu ...
* Saga Domain *
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Saga) This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefecture of Saga. National Historic Sites As of 1 August 2019, twenty-five Sites have been designated as being of national significance (including three *Special Historic Sites); ...
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Prefectural museum A prefectural museum is a museum that specializes in collections local to a prefecture of Japan. Prefectural museums emerged in postwar Japan, and since these institutions are of recent origin their collections tend not to contain older Japan ar ...


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