Stories from Saga Prefecture 🇯🇵🔥

✅ The joy of seeing the Olympic flame for the first time 👧💞👦

Watch as the Olympic flame travelled along the streets in Saga Prefecture.

✅ Fascinating Japanese history 🇯🇵🔙

The flame passed through the Yoshinogari Historical Park – a quaint village and an archeological site in Kanzaki CIty which dates back to the 3rd and 4th BC.

Due to its size – almost 70 hectares – and the importance of the ancient settlement there, it is considered a major archeological site.

✅The flame of hope 🙏

HARAMAKI Kazuhiro was a torchbearer in his hometown Kamimine Town 57 years ago during Tokyo 1964. Now mayor of his ward, today he returned as a torchbearer but this time for Tokyo 2020. Haramaki wants to show people his age – especially those who are fighting illnesses and injuries – there is hope. ✨

With the flame in one hand, and a walking stick in the other, Haramaki was greeted by the loud sounds of taito drums and cheering from the small crowd.

#Tokyo2020 #HopeLightsOurWay

AloJapan.com