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Oura Church
Japan's Oldest Standing Church and National Treasure
Japan's oldest standing Christian church, designated a National Treasure and part of the UNESCO H...
Hashima Island (Gunkanjima)
Abandoned Coal Mining Island and UNESCO Industrial Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution, Hashima...
Dejima
Restored Edo-Period Dutch Trading Post
A restored fan-shaped island in central Nagasaki that served as the Netherlands' trading post dur...
Nagasaki Peace Park
Memorial to Nagasaki's Atomic Bombing
A solemn peace memorial featuring the Peace Statue and the Atomic Bomb Museum documenting Nagasak...
Glover Garden
A hillside open-air museum featuring Western-style residences from Japan's Meiji-era foreign sett...
Kashiragashima Church
A Stone Church Its Congregation Quarried by Hand, on a Goto Island Once Left to the Sick
A sandstone church on Kashiragashima, off Nakadori island in the Goto chain, built from 1910 to 1...
Egami Church
A White Wooden Church on Stilts in a Seaside Valley of Naru Island, Built with Savings from Kibinago Net Fishing
A small white wooden church with pale blue window frames, built in 1918 by Tetsukawa Yosuke for d...
Hirado St. Francis Xavier Memorial Church
A Green Gothic Church Rising Above the Temple Roofs of Hirado
A pale green Gothic church built in 1931 on a hill above Hirado's old town, known as the Xavier M...
Hara Castle Ruins
The Headland Where the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion Ended
Grassy ruins on a headland above the Ariake Sea, where some 27,000 to 37,000 rebels under Amakusa...
Kasuga Village and Mount Yasumandake
Rice Terraces Where Hidden Christians Never Went Back to the Church, Below the Sacred Mountain They Prayed To
A farming village of terraced rice fields on the west coast of Hirado Island, where Hidden Christ...
Urakami Cathedral
The Cathedral Rebuilt 500 Meters from Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter
Nagasaki's Catholic cathedral, rebuilt in 1959 after the atomic bomb brought down the old brick c...
Sotome
The Hidden Christian Coast of Silence, a Bus Ride North of Nagasaki
The coast north of Nagasaki where Hidden Christians worshipped in secret, with Fr. de Rotz's Shit...