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The is a body of salt water surrounded by Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka....
, Saga
Saga Prefecture

is located in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the Prefectures of Japan is a region famous for producing Ceramics and porcelain, particularly the towns of Karatsu, Saga, Imari, Saga, and Arita, Saga....
, Nagasaki
Nagasaki Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. The capital is the city of Nagasaki, Nagasaki....
, and Kumamoto Prefecture
Kumamoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto....
s, all of which lie on the island of Kyushu
Kyushu

or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its Japanese Archipelago. Its alternate ancient names include Kyukoku , Chinzei , and Tsukushi-no-shima ....
 in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. It is the largest bay in Kyushu. Its deepest point is only about 50 m deep, and extreme tides exceed 4 m. It is used for aquaculture, with nori
Nori

is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
 being a major product. Various species of fauna including mudskipper
Mudskipper

Mudskippers are members of the subfamily Oxudercinae , within the family Gobiidae . They are completely amphibious fish, uniquely adapted to intertidal habitats, unlike most fish in such habitats, which survive the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet seaweed or in tidal pools....
, Pen shell (Atrina pectinata), and fiddler crab
Fiddler crab

A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 97 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs within the genus Uca ....
 live in the Ariake Sea. Recent years have brought increasing pollution, with resultant red tide
Red tide

"Red tide" is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column....
.






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The is a body of salt water surrounded by Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka....
, Saga
Saga Prefecture

is located in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the Prefectures of Japan is a region famous for producing Ceramics and porcelain, particularly the towns of Karatsu, Saga, Imari, Saga, and Arita, Saga....
, Nagasaki
Nagasaki Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. The capital is the city of Nagasaki, Nagasaki....
, and Kumamoto Prefecture
Kumamoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto....
s, all of which lie on the island of Kyushu
Kyushu

or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its Japanese Archipelago. Its alternate ancient names include Kyukoku , Chinzei , and Tsukushi-no-shima ....
 in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. It is the largest bay in Kyushu. Its deepest point is only about 50 m deep, and extreme tides exceed 4 m. It is used for aquaculture, with nori
Nori

is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
 being a major product. Various species of fauna including mudskipper
Mudskipper

Mudskippers are members of the subfamily Oxudercinae , within the family Gobiidae . They are completely amphibious fish, uniquely adapted to intertidal habitats, unlike most fish in such habitats, which survive the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet seaweed or in tidal pools....
, Pen shell (Atrina pectinata), and fiddler crab
Fiddler crab

A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 97 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs within the genus Uca ....
 live in the Ariake Sea. Recent years have brought increasing pollution, with resultant red tide
Red tide

"Red tide" is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column....
. Isahaya Bay is a branch of the Ariake Sea. Across the Amakusa Islands lies the Yatsushiro Sea
Yatsushiro Sea

The ', which is also called the ', is a shallow semi-enclosed inland sea separating the island of Kyushu from the Amakusa. It lies mostly within Kumamoto Prefecture and at the southern end of the sea it also borders Kagoshima Prefecture....
.

Many harbors are located on the coast. Among them are Misumi (in the city of Uki, Kumamoto
Uki, Kumamoto

is a cities of Japan located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on January 15, 2005, as a result of the Merger and dissolution of municipalities of Japan between the towns of Japan of Misumi, Kumamoto and Shiranuhi, Kumamoto from Uto District, Kumamoto and the towns of Japan of Matsubase, Kumamoto, Ogawa, Kumamoto and Toyono, Ku...
 Prefecture), Shimabara (Shimabara, Nagasaki
Shimabara, Nagasaki

is a cities of Japan located on the north-eastern tip of the Shimabara Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen in the west, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan....
), Taira (Unzen, Nagasaki
Unzen, Nagasaki

is a cities of Japan in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, located on the northern tip of Shimabara Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen to the south....
), Nagasu (Nagasu, Kumamoto
Nagasu, Kumamoto

is a towns of Japan located in Tamana District, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 17,683 and the population density of 910.09 persons per km?....
), Kumamoto (Kumamoto, Kumamoto
Kumamoto, Kumamoto

is the capital cities of Japan of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Greater Kumamoto has a population of 1,460,000, as of the 2000 Census....
), Miike (Omuta, Fukuoka
Omuta, Fukuoka

is a cities of Japan located in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.As of March 2006, the city has an estimated population of 133,802 and the population density of 1,654.49 persons per km?....
), Kuchinotsu (Minamishimabara, Nagasaki
Minamishimabara, Nagasaki

is a cities of Japan in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It occupies the southern tip of Shimabara Peninsula.Minamishimabara city was founded on March 31, 2006 upon the merger of several towns in Minamitakaki District, Nagasaki, which was dissolved as a result....
), and Oniike (Amakusa, Kumamoto
Amakusa, Kumamoto

was a towns of Japan located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 4,405 and a population density of 51.54 persons per km?....
).

Five ferry routes cross the Ariake Sea.

Source

  • (Japanese Wikipedia, including map)


External links

  • "Ariake Sea General Research Project" (Saga University, in Japanese)
  • "Environmental Information on Ariake Etc.: Research Network" (Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, in Japanese)