Ariake (有明: "daybreak") may refer to: Places in Japan Ariake, Kagoshima, a former town in Kagoshima Prefecture Ariake, Kumamoto, a former town in Kumamoto Prefecture Ariake, Saga, a former town in Saga Prefecture Ariake, Tokyo, a district within Kōtō, Tokyo Ariake Sea, a body of water surrounded by Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto Prefectures People with the surname Kambara Ariake (1876–1952), Japanese poet and novelist Other Ariake (train), a train service of Kyushu Railway Company , four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Ariake (ferry), a ferry shipwrecked in 2009 , a Japanese World War II ship torpedoed and sunk in February 1944 Ariake (food processing manufacturer), a Japanese food processing manufacturer