Yoshinogari, Saga

Yoshinogari (吉野ヶ里町, Yoshinogari-chō) is a town located in Kanzaki District, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Following the Meiji restoration, the villages of Mitagawa and Higashi-Sefuri were established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889.

The town took its name from the remains of a Yayoi period moat-encircled village that was discovered on Yoshinogari Hill in 1986 at the site of a planned factory housing complex.

Yoshinogari has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 12 members.

In terms of national politics, the town is part of the Saga 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Yoshinogari ruins, after which the town is named