This guide covers how to reach Yoshinogari Historical Park from Saga and Hakata, the ticket rates, and the seasonal schedule.

Yoshinogari Historical Park lies in Saga Prefecture, and the time needed to reach it from the nearby cities decides how much of the day is left. The first table compares the ride times from Saga and Hakata, with the starting point and the end point named in every row.

The second table sets out the ticket rates and the parking rate. The seasonal schedule has a section of its own, and the article ends with the restaurant and the shop at the East Gate, the places to plan a meal around.

Getting to Yoshinogari Historical Park

This section tells you how long each way in takes. Pick the row that matches where you begin.

ItemDetail
Route bus, Saga Station bus center to the Yoshinogari Historical Park South stop, adult one waysix hundred yen
Route bus, Saga Station bus center to the Yoshinogari Historical Park South stop, ride timeabout forty minutes
Local train, Saga Station to Yoshinogari-koen Stationabout twelve minutes
Walk, Yoshinogari-koen Station to the East Gate (main gate)about fifteen minutes
Car, Saga Station to the parkabout twenty-five minutes
Car, Hakata Station to the park via the Nagasaki Expresswayabout sixty minutes
Looking down over the reconstructed thatched houses and wooden fences of the southern inner enclosure at Yoshinogari, with flat farmland stretching to the horizon.
Photo: Saigen Jiro / Wikimedia Commons / CC0

From the Yoshinogari Historical Park South bus stop, the park entrance is about a five-minute walk. On the Kyushu Shinkansen, the ride from Hakata Station to Shin-Tosu Station takes about fourteen minutes. From Kanzaki Station, the West Gate is about a fifteen-minute walk.

After leaving the Nagasaki Expressway at the Higashi-Seburi interchange, the park is about five minutes south on route three hundred eighty-five.

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Admission and Parking

This section gives the ticket rates for an individual visitor and the parking rate for a car.

ItemDetail
General admission, adult (fifteen years and over)four hundred sixty yen
General two-day ticket, adultfive hundred yen
General admission, senior (sixty-five and over)two hundred yen
Parking, regular carthree hundred ten yen

Seasonal Opening Hours and Closed Days

Match your date to the right block below. From April first to May thirty-first, the park is open from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon. From June first to August thirty-first, the park is open from nine in the morning to six in the evening.

From September first to March thirty-first, the park is open from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon. The park is closed on December thirty-first and on the third Monday of January and the following day.

A reconstructed raised-floor storehouse at Yoshinogari with a steep thatched roof on short wooden posts, green fields and hills behind.
Photo: Saigen Jiro / Wikimedia Commons / CC0

Eating and Shopping at the East Gate

Both the restaurant and the shop are at the East Gate. The East Gate restaurant has about one hundred seats. The East Gate restaurant is open from ten thirty in the morning to four in the afternoon.

The East Gate shop is open from nine thirty in the morning to five in the afternoon, and until six in the evening from June to August.

Rows of large rounded jar-burial mounds on bare ground at Yoshinogari, with trees at the edge of the exhibit area.
© Pekachu / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

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