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14-551: Saga Prefectural Nagoya Castle Museum ( 佐賀県立名護屋城博物館 , Saga Kenritsu Nagoya-jō Hakubutsukan ) opened in 1993 in Karatsu , Saga Prefecture , Japan, on the site of Nagoya Castle , built in 1591 as the base for Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea . It displays artefacts excavated from the castle site and other materials relating to three main themes: (1) the history of exchange between the Japanese archipelago and Korean peninsula; (2)

28-597: 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

42-473: 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 is 15.6°C. The average annual rainfall is 1760 mm with September as

56-567: 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

70-766: 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

84-429: 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;

98-453: 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

112-609: 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

126-682: 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 a ria coast with many inlets and outlets, and due to its geographical features, this area has been

140-528: 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

154-680: The preservation of the Special Historic Site of Nagoya Castle; (3) cultural and academic exchange between Japan and Korea. The 2,000,000th visit was in August 2010. In April 2022 a replica of the Golden Tea Room was installed. This article related to a museum in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Karatsu, Saga Karatsu is located in northern Saga Prefecture. The city area consists of

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168-470: 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 the town of Chinzei), Nagoya Castle was constructed. The following year, it became

182-421: 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

196-462: 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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