Nagasaki Chinatown
One of Japan's Three Great Chinatowns
One of Japan's three great Chinatowns alongside Yokohama and Kobe, famous for champon noodles and...
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...
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. ...
Megane Bridge
1634 Stone Arch Bridge over the Nakashima River
A twin-arch stone bridge built in 1634 over the Nakashima River, whose reflection in the water re...
Shimabara Castle
Castle of the Christian Rebellion
Reconstructed castle famous for its connection to the Shimabara Rebellion, with exhibits on Chris...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hirado Castle
Hirado Castle occupies a sea-facing hill across from the old trading port. Its reconstructed keep...
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...
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...