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18-655: Karatsu is located in northern Saga Prefecture. The city area consists of the plains (Karatsu Plain) created by the Matsuura River and Tamashima River, and a hilly basalt plateau called Uwaba. It faces the Sefuri Mountains to the east, Imari Bay to the west, the Kishima Mountains to the south, and the Genkai Sea (Karatsu Bay) to the north, into which the Matsuura River flows. The northwest is

36-597: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 28 members. Karatsu contributes six members to the Saga Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of the Saga 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Karatsu has a diverse economy. The main agricultural products are fruit trees, rice, vegetables, and beef cattle. In

54-501: A ria coast with many inlets and outlets, and due to its geographical features, this area has been a base for maritime traffic to the continent since ancient times. The city also includes a number of populated offshore islands Fukuoka Prefecture Saga Prefecture Karatsu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Karatsu

72-567: A six public high schools and one special education school for the handicapped. There is also one private high school. There is one vocational training school, the Karatsu Maritime Polytechnical School. [REDACTED] JR Kyushu - Karatsu Line [REDACTED] JR Kyushu - Chikuhi Line [REDACTED] JR Kyushu - Chikuhi Line (West) Karatsu is famous for its Karatsu Kunchi festival , which runs annually from November 2 to November 4 and

90-766: A specialty. The main industrial clusters are the Karatsu Ironworks Complex (Nakahara area), the Karatsu Ishishi Industrial Complex (Ishishi area), and the Kishiyama Industrial Complex (Kitahata Kishiyama area). Karatsu has 30 public elementary schools and 18 public junior high schools operated by the city government, and one public junior high schools operated by the Saga Prefectural Board of Education. The prefecture also operates

108-509: Is 15.6°C. The average annual rainfall is 1760 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.3°C, and lowest in January, at around 5.5°C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Karatsu is as shown below. The area of Karatsu was part of ancient Hizen Province . In 1591, on the coast of the northern part of the city (formerly

126-883: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kyushu Railway Company The Kyushu Railway Company , also referred to as JR Kyushu ( JR九州 , Jeiāru Kyūshū ) , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu , Japan and the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait between Fukuoka and Busan , South Korea . It also operates hotels, restaurants, and drugstores across its service region. JR Kyushu's headquarters are in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka . When Japanese National Railways

144-429: Is visited by approximately 500,000 visitors from all over Japan. The festival consists of 14 hikiyama (floats made of many layers of paper mache) being carried around the city's narrow streets to calls of "Enya!". Some hikiyama members say "Yoisa!". This accompaniment is one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan . Regularly during Karatsu Kunchi, people in this town open their homes to friends and strangers to eat and drink;

162-815: The Beetle ferry , started in 1991, and the Train d'or bakery chain, started in 1992. JR Kyushu also built up its premium rail services through the development of the Kyushu Shinkansen high-speed rail line and the Seven Stars in Kyushu luxury excursion train . The company introduced SUGOCA , a smart card ticketing system, from 1 March 2009. JR Kyushu executed its initial public offering in October 2016. Non-railway operations account for roughly 60% of

180-640: The Japan Air Self-Defense Force , and the other is a communication station operated by the United States Air Force in Japan. The most popular route to climb this mountain is from Shiiba Bus Stop of Nishitetsu Bus. It takes about from two and half hours to three hours to the top. This Fukuoka Prefecture location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Saga Prefecture location article

198-453: The creation of the modern municipalities system. Ōmura was renamed Tamashima in July 28, 1896. Hamasaki was elevated to town status on July 1, 1922. Karatsu annexed Mitsushima on January 1, 1924. Yobuko was elevated to town status on August 1, 1928. Karatsu Village was incorporated into Karatsu Town on January 1, 1932, and on September 1, 1935 both Sashi and Ōchi were elevated to town status. Sashi

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216-640: The island of Kyūshū . Before the Meiji Restoration , this mountain was a center of the Shugendō religion in this region, along with Mount Hiko . Mount Sefuri is the location where the Buddhist priest Eisai first planted tea after his return to Japan from Song dynasty China in the Kamakura period . On the top of Mount Sefuri, there are two military sites. One is a radar site operated by

234-528: The plains of Kagami and Kuri, there are vast rice paddies developed as an ancillary project of the river improvement project in the Edo period. Rice is still the main crop, but due to the rice production reduction policy, there has been a shift to the production of soybeans and other beans, and barley, wheat, and other grains. Large-scale orchards are spread out in the Hamatama area, and greenhouse mandarin oranges are

252-580: The primary focus is enjoying food, beer, and shochu, and having lively conversation. Mount Sefuri Mount Sefuri ( 脊振山 , Sefuri-san ) is a 1,054.6 m (3,460 ft) peak of the Sefuri Mountains, which are located on the border of Fukuoka , Fukuoka Prefecture , and Kanzaki , Saga Prefecture , Japan . This mountain is the tallest peak of the Sefuri Mountain range between Fukuoka Prefecture and Saga Prefecture on

270-694: The town of Chinzei), Nagoya Castle was constructed. The following year, it became the location from which the Imjin War was launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi . In the middle of 1593, Terazawa Hirotaka created Karatsu Domain . In 1602, replacing Nagoya Castle, Karatsu Castle was constructed in what is now the heart of Karatsu. Following the Meiji restoration , the town of Karatsu and the villages of Hamasaki, Irino, Kagami, Karatsu, Kirigo, Kitahata, Kuri, Kyūragi, Minato, Mitsushima, Nagoya, Nanayama, Ōchi, Ōmura, Onizuka, Sashi, Uchiage and Yobuko were established with

288-406: Was divided in 1987, Kyushu Railway Company inherited its assets and operations on the island of Kyushu along with losses of around 28.8 billion yen, exacerbated by a growing highway network in Kyushu and many lightly used rural lines. After privatization, JR Kyushu diversified its business into new ventures such as fish and mushroom farming and car sales. Two of its more successful side ventures were

306-421: Was elevated to town status and was renamed Hizen. On November 1, 1966 Hamasaki-Tamashima was renamed Hamatama. On January 1, 2005, the towns of Chinzei , Hamatama , Hizen , Kyūragi , Ōchi , Yobuko and the village of Kitahata (all from Higashimatsuura District ) were merged into Karatsu. On January 1, 2006, the village of Nanayama (from Higashimatsuura District ) was merged into Karatsu. Karatsu has

324-462: Was subsequently annexed by Karatsu on November 11, 1941. Kyūragi was elevated to town status on May 3, 1952. On November 1, 1954 Karatsu annexed Kagami, Kuri, Minato and Onizuka. Hamasaki and Tamashima were merged to create the town of Hamasaki-Tamashima; and Nagoya and Uchiage were merge to create the town of Chinzei on September 30, 1956. On November 1, 1958 Kirigo was split and its parts were incorporated into Karatsu and Irino (respectively), and Irino

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