was a

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located in the Higashimatsuura District of

Saga Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of roughly 780,000 and has a geographic area of . Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasaki Prefect ...

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. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 8,841 and a

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of 189.48 persons per km². The total area was 46.66 km². On January 1, 2005, Hizen, along with the towns of

Chinzei The branch, also called the Chinzei Doctrine (鎮西義), is one of the two largest branches of Jōdo-shū Buddhism (the second being Seizan). The tradition traces itself to Benchō (a.k.a. Shōkō Shōnin), a disciple of Hōnen, but it was f ...

, Hamatama, Kyūragi, Ōchi and Yobuko, and the village of Kitahata (all from Higashimatsuura District), was merged into the expanded city of Karatsu The region has several beautiful waterfalls including Umezaki Falls, and the paired male and female: Odaki and Medaki Falls. To the south in Hizen-Mitsukoshi can be found the Fureai Nature School Hizen. Tsuru No Iwaya Temple includes many stone relief carvings of the Buddha on an overhanging cliff face. They are reminiscent of the similar Udonoiwaya site in nearby Ōchi.

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Dissolved municipalities of Saga Prefecture Karatsu, Saga {{Saga-geo-stub