Arita Town (有田町, Arita-chō) is a town located in Nishimatsuura District, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
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In real life[]
Arita is located in the western part of Saga Prefecture, bordering Nagasaki Prefecture from its southwest to western sides. About 70% of the town is forest and mountains.
The area of Arita was part of ancient Hizen Province. During the Edo Period, it was mostly part of the holdings of Saga Domain. Arita was one of the first sites in Japan to produce porcelain, Arita ware. The discovery of porcelain stone is attributed to a Korean potter named Kanagae Sambe(Yi Sam-pyeong) who discovered a source of kaolin underneath the Izumiyama mountain in Arita, and began firing the nation’s first porcelain.
Following the Meiji Restoration, the village of Sarayama was renamed and reclassified as the town of Arita. Also, the villages of Shin, Magarikawa and Ōyama were established within Nishimatsuura District, with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. On November 13, 1896, the village of Shin was renamed Arita, which was raised to town status on January 1, 1947 and renamed Higashi-Arita and which merged with Arita on April 1, 1954. Magarikawa and Ōyama merge to form the village of Nishi-Arita on April 1, 1955. Nishi-Arita was raised to town status on April 1, 1965 and was merged into Arita on March 1, 2006
The economy of Arita is overwhelmingly based on the ceramics industry, notably production of Arita ware, and on tourism.[1]
In the series[]
While it is not a place Franchouchou visits in the series, given Arita's economic importance to Saga, it has appeared in various collaborations with Zombie Land Saga, such as the commercial for Curry Meshi.
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