Yoshinogari (吉野ヶ里町) is a town of 16,000 people (2017) in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Yoshinogari Historic Site

Understand

• The town government's official site has a Japanese-only tourism section.

Get in

By plane

The closest airports are Saga Airport and Fukuoka Airport.

By train

Yoshinogari-kōen Station

• 1 Yoshinogari-kōen Station (吉野ケ里公園駅), ☏ +81 952-52-2324. This is on JR Kyushu's Nagasaki Main Line. (updated Jul 2024)

By car

Expressways: Nagasaki Expressway (Higashi-Sefuri Interchange)

National Highways: Route 34 and Route 385

Prefectural Roads: Saga Prefectural Route 31, and Route 46

See

• 1 Yoshinogari Ruins & Historical Park (吉野ケ里遺跡・歴史公園 Yoshinogariseki Rekishikōen), 1843 Tade Yoshinogari-cho, ☏ +81 952-55-9333. See this from the train going to Hakata from Nagasaki. Remains of a ringed-dugout settlement, dating back to the 3rd century BCE. The remains lie on the spacious hilly area over Kanzaki City and Yoshinogari-cho of Kanzaki-gun in the northeastern part of Saga. Remains of a ringed-dugout settlement presumably dating back to the 3rd century BCE were unearthed there, and excavation is still underway at the site. They are among the largest archaeological remains in Japan.  

Go next

• Kanzaki
• Saga
• Kamimine
• Miyaki
• Tosu
• Kiyama
• Ogori
• Kawasoe
• Higahiyoka

Routes through Yoshinogari

Tosu ← Miyaki ←

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→ Kanzaki → Saga