Arita Pottery Town
有田
The porcelain town of Arita ware, with white-walled merchant houses and a porcelain torii.
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Our guide
Arita, in western Saga, is the home of Arita ware, one of Japan's traditional crafts. Because it was shipped from the port of Imari, Arita porcelain was sold as “Imari”, and it is the root of the ware known as Ko-Imari. The old centre, Arita Uchiyama, keeps merchant houses with white-plastered storehouses and tonbai walls, and is a national preservation district for traditional buildings. Sueyama Shrine has the only ceramic torii in Japan, and the Kyushu Ceramic Museum of Saga Prefecture is here too. Arita is twinned with Meissen in Germany.
If you can choose your dates, the Arita Pottery Fair begins on 29 April each year. Nishi-Arita Station is about 250 m from the point this page is mapped to.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- View of Arita Town from Yasaka Shrine — そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Tozan Shrine 09 April 2011 01 — STA3816 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- View from Sueyama Shrine 2 — そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- View from Sueyama Shrine — そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- 応法地区「徳幸窯」 - panoramio — UltraH · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- 応法地区「石炭窯」 - panoramio — UltraH · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
What this place is
Arita, a town in western Saga Prefecture, is the home of Arita ware, one of Japan's traditional crafts. Because it was shipped from the port of Imari, Arita porcelain was called Imari, and it is the root of the ware known as Ko-Imari. The old centre, Arita Uchiyama, keeps merchant houses with white-plastered storehouses and tonbai walls, and is a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. Sueyama Shrine has the only ceramic torii in Japan, and the Kyushu Ceramic Museum of Saga Prefecture is in the town. The Arita Pottery Fair begins on 29 April each year, and Arita is twinned with Meissen in Germany.
Background text translated from Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Nearby station
Nearby station: Nishi-Arita, about 250 m from the spot in a straight line.
Worked out on 2026-09-14 from this place’s map position, using HeartRails Express station data and station names from Wikidata. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route, and says nothing about buses, transfers or timetables — plan the trip on Google Maps.
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