Facilities for transportation

Local volunteers and members of
Nijinomatsubara Protection Conference are
active in protecting Nijinomatsubara with thesupport from Saga Ｐrefectural Ｇovernment.
Activities not prohibited within Nijinomatsubara
Nijinomatsubara is a protection forest andfulfills the following functions:
１． Windbreak forest
To reduce the wind speed and protect
farmland from wind
２． Sea splash damage control forest
To reduce sea salt and tidal wave damage
３． Public health protection forest
To provide a recreational place ,
conserve air quality and prevent the noise

１. Hunting
２. Bonfires
３.Gathering soil, grass and fallen leaves.

Route 347
Nijinomatsubara

Karatsu

70590
SagaHakata

43(minutes)

Hamasaki（National Ｐrotection Ｆorest)

Karatsu bay

Nijinomatubara

Nijinomatsubara

User's manner
The whole area of Nijinomatsubara is a
Cultural Asset, Natural Park and Protection
Forest and is designated as a Special Place ofScenic Beauty. Nijinomatsubara is valuable asa cultural heritage for us.
1. Take good care of pine trees.
2. Don't throw away rubbish
3. Don't throw away cigarette ends

Higashikaratsu

Special Place of Scenic Beauty

By railｗay
Hakata → Nijinomatsubara 1hour 20 minutes.
Saga→ Nijinomatsubara 1hour 40 minutes(Change at Karatsu station)
By busHakataSaga→ Nijinomatsubara 1hour 50 minutes.
→ Nijinomatsubara 2hours

Location and others
Nijinomatsubara has an area of 218ha, isenjoyed by many people in the summer season
as a sea bathing resort . Through four seasons it
is also popular for sightseeing area and thebasking in the woods

Saga District Forest Office2-11, Seisho-cho, Saga-city, Saga, 840-0814
TEl 0952-26-1111 FAX 0952-26-1113
http://www.kyusyu.kokuyurin.go.jp/02saga/Mt. Kagami

Saga District Forest Office tries to protect
Nijinomatsubara
Kyushu Regional Forest Office

Saga District Forest Office

Karatsu bay

A view of the coastline of Nijinomatsubara and Matsuura river from the Karatsu castle

Matsuura riverA view of Nijinomatsubara and Karatsu-bay from the Kagami observation platform( Left Karatsu-city, Right Hamatama-town)

History of Nijinomatsubara
Management
The pine forest is 400-700m wide along the coast of
Karatsu-bay and the length is 4.5km following thecurved coastline.
The main tree species is the Japanese black pine(Pinus thunbergii) that grows from youth to over-200years-old trees ,and whose diameter is over 2m ateye-level.
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Growth of the trees is influenced by the strong
coastal winds and they tilt toward the inland,
attributing to an abstract beauty in which onlookers
might imagine dragons, snakes and spiraling birds.
This pine forest was made to stabilize the sandy
coast by Terasawa-Shimanokami; a Karatsu-liege lord
(who made Katasu castle in 1608 and died in 1633).
This forest belt has been protected since the Edo
period as it protects the paddy fields to the south ofthe pine forest from wind and sand.
1898. 1 Designation of Windbreak and Sea Splash
Damage Control Forest.
1916.10 Designation of Place of Scenic Beauty.
1955. 3 Designation of Special Place of Scenic Beauty
1957. 3 Designation of Quasi-Natural Park(Special Area of Class 1 , felling prohibited.)
1981. 1 Designation of Public Health Protection Forest

The following are projects we workon annually for the protection of Nijinomatsubara.
１．Preventing pine sawyers using helicopter.
２．Replanting, weed clearing and tree thinning
３． New establishment of hedgerows
We also put out 19ha of land for lease ,to Saga-prefecture and Karatsu-city forthe use of playgrounds , parking lots and roadsurfaces.

Sightseeing (The outskirts of
Nijinomatsubara)
Mt.Kagami(peak of 284m) to the south of
Karatsu-bay has been famous since ancienttimes. In olden times it was called Mt.Hirefuri orMt.Shichimen ( Hirefuri means a scarf waved inparting with a Japanese princess Sayo in the5 th century )Mt.Kagami is composed by many poets in theManyoshu ( This is the oldest existing anthologyof poetry and was compiled by Yamanoue
Okura in the 8th century. It containsapproximately 4500 poems. )On the top of the mountain, we can see thebeautiful landscape of the Quasi-Natural Park
that is full of poetical sentiment. We can see
Tamashima-Sato and Karatsu Castle, Karatsu
shrine, Chikamatsu Temple etc.

The lily( Lilium auratum) which blooms in Nijinomatubara