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3 unusual facts about Saga Prefecture


10744 Tsuruta

It is named for Masatoshi Tsuruta, a Japanese astronomer in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

12746 Yumeginga

It is named after the Space and Science Museum, nicknamed Yumeginga, in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Kakuban

Kakuban was born in Fujitsu-no-shō (Hizen Province, nowadays part of Kashima City, Saga Prefecture) about three hundred years after Shingon Buddhism was first founded by Kūkai (空海).


Hiromi Iwanaga

A native of Arita, Saga and dropout of Chuo University, he had served in the assembly of Saga Prefecture for six terms since 1975 and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995.


see also

Matsuura

Matsuura Railway, a railway company in Nagasaki and Saga Prefecture in Japan

Ōgi Station

Ogi Station, a railway station on the Karatsu Line in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan