Travel Destinations in Nagasaki

Ikeshima

Kyushu's Last Coal Mine Island, with a Trolley Ride Underground

A small island off the Sotome coast of Nagasaki that mined coal from 1959 until 2001. Most of the...

Mount Unzen

A Ropeway to 1,333 Meters and a Lava Dome Formed in the 1990s

The volcanic massif at the center of the Shimabara Peninsula, reached by the one-way Nita Pass ro...

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

A Clock Stopped at 11:02 and a Rebuilt Cathedral Wall, for 200 Yen

The city museum on the hill above the hypocenter, covering the bombing of August 9, 1945, the dam...

Tsushima

Japan's Border Island, 49.5 km from Korea and 82 km End to End

A long, forested island in the strait between Kyushu and Korea, with a 7th-century border fort, a...

Nozaki Island

Nozaki Island: An Emptied Island, a Brick Church and Two Boats a Day

A long, hilly island east of Ojika in the northern Goto chain. Over 650 people lived in its three...

Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument

The Hill Where 26 Christians Were Crucified in 1597, Five Minutes from Nagasaki Station

The execution ground of the 26 Martyrs of 1597, now a park with a long bronze memorial, a small m...

Kuroshima

A Ferry Island off Sasebo Where Hidden Christians Farmed an Old Horse Ranch, and a Brick Church from 1902

A small hilly island about 50 minutes by ferry from Ainoura in Sasebo, settled in the 19th centur...

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...

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...

Hirado Castle

Hirado Castle occupies a sea-facing hill across from the old trading port. Its reconstructed keep...

Iki

An Hour from Hakata: Barley Shochu, a Monkey Rock and a Yayoi Capital

A low, green island in the strait between Fukuoka and Tsushima, about 17 km from north to south. ...

Michi-no-Eki Matsuura Umi-no-Furusatokan

Horse mackerel fry in the town that claims it

A fishing-port market on Route 204 in Matsuura, the city that calls itself the holy land of aji f...

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...

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...

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...