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A repairand restored museum of the old house built by the pottery merchant Inuzuka family, built in Bunsei 8 (1825). In the hall, you can appreciate the old mari. The floor plan is an Edo-era merchant house with an elongated structure of about 5.5m and a depth of about 14.8m, and the luxury furnishings and large storage shelves show the prosperity of that time. It takes 30 minutes.

伊萬里神社の摂社で、祭神は現在の中国江南地方へ渡り、非時香菓(橘)を持ち帰ったとされる田道間守。昔は木の実は菓子とよばれ、橘は最高の菓子とされたことから菓子の神様として知られる。

樹齢約800年以上の一本桜。夜、木の下で火を焚いて眺めると桜の花が美しく映えて明星の趣があることから、「明星桜」と名付けられた。伊万里市内の桜では随一の老木だ。

伊万里駅から北方向に約5kmの市街地に位置する西九州最大規模といわれる梅園。国営土地改良事業により平成5年(1993)から植え始めた梅の木は、約24万平方mの広大な土地に約6500本。整然と立ち並ぶ梅の品種は小梅、南高、古城[ごじろ]など。開花時期は2月中旬から3月上旬。高台の梅園展望台からは、咲き誇る梅園の梅花と伊万里の市街地や伊万里湾が見渡せる。2月下旬の見ごろには「伊万里梅まつり」が開催され、多くの観梅客で賑わう。

伊万里は全国有数のカブトガニの繁殖地。産卵のため、7月中旬～8月上旬の大潮を中心に満潮に乗ってこの海岸にやってくる。毎年7月中旬～下旬には「産卵を観る会」を開催し、成体の説明などを行っている。平成27年(2015)10月に国天然記念物「伊万里湾カブトガニ繁殖地」として指定されている。多々良海岸から徒歩2分の場所には伊万里湾カブトガニの館があり、1年を通して飼育されたカブトガニを観察できる。カブトガニの館に隣接して子孫繁栄・夫婦和合などカブトガニにあやかったカブトガニ神社が設置されている。

It is located in a scenic corner of Kaya Bay, where most of the facilities are sea-front, including a large bathhouse and an open-air bath. It is a healing space where you can see the ever-changing sea due to the rising tide. At the restaurant, you can eat delicious Saga beef and fresh fish and vegetables from Genkai-cho.

You can enjoy learning about hydrogen energy, which is attracting attention now, including various types of energy such as solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass. "Earth Lab" (paid), which can be enjoyed by games using powerful images and tablets, and "Asupiazu Car" (paid), which carries fuel cells and solar cells, are also popular among children. A "road train" with solar panels on the roof is in free service outdoors. There are also "Soli piste", "Picnic Square" and "Barbecue Square" which can be played for free.

It is a theme park where you can learn about energy, adjacent to a power plant. The first thing I would like to tour is the Science Museum, which has a full-scale reactor model of about 13 meters high. Let's learn while enjoying the reactor theater and the mechanics of nuclear power in simulation games. In addition to the greenhouse where you can see about 200 kinds of tropical plants, such as the kōcho uranium, there are many places to see, such as the Kyushu festival and traditional crafts to be introduced at the Kyushu Hometown Hall.

A hot spring facility located just a short distance from the fishing port of Takagushi, Hizen District of Karatsu. Although the bathhouse is small, the slushy hot water is reputed to have a moist skin of the steaming water. The sodium-bicarbonate spring, which is praised by the bath, is effective for skin diseases and digestive diseases.

An accommodation-type nature experience facility opened in Iroha Island as a place for natural experience-based environmental education. Campsites and cottages are scattered around nature experience houses. There are various nature experience programs with forest, sea, and terraced rice fields in the field, and you can enjoy the stone kiln experience, the Goemon bath experience, the sea kayaking experience, etc.