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長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

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The shogunal magistrate's office rebuilt in timber, housing the record of Japan's one open window on the world.

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Oura Cathedral

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Japan's oldest church and the only Western-style building designated National Treasure - where hidden Christians revealed themselves after 250 years.

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Glover Garden

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Nine Western houses gathered on a hillside above the harbour, including the oldest Western-style timber building in Japan.

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Dejima

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The fan-shaped artificial island that was Japan's only opening to the West; buried by landfill, and now being excavated and rebuilt.

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Spectacles Bridge

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Japan's oldest stone arch bridge, built by a Chinese monk; its two arches and their reflection make the spectacles.

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Sofukuji

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Its gate was cut in China, shipped in pieces and assembled here - a rare surviving example of Ming architecture in Japan.

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Kofukuji

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Where the Obaku Zen school entered Japan; its window lattices imitate cracking ice in the Chinese manner.

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Peace Statue, Nagasaki

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One hand raised toward the bomb, the other held level for peace - a decade's work and, at the time, among the largest bronzes cast in Japan.

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Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

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Beside the hypocentre, built around the objects themselves - including a wall moved from the ruined cathedral.

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Urakami Cathedral

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Once called the greatest church in the East, destroyed by the bomb and rebuilt; its scorched statues remain on site.

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Hashima, Gunkanjima

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A coal island whose 1916 concrete apartment blocks are among Japan's oldest; abandoned in 1974 and left as a whole ruined city.

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Giant Cantilever Crane

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Imported from Scotland in 1909 and still lifting - an industrial machine that has worked for over a century.

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Kosuge Slip Dock

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Japan's first Western-style repair dock, hauling ships up rails onto land; the brick slipway survives intact.

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Higashi-Yamate and Minami-Yamate

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Western houses on the old settlement hills, their cobbled slopes and retaining walls still marking the original plots.

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Shitsu Church and the de Rotz Buildings

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A French priest designed and built these with the villagers, keeping them low against the wind.

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Ono Church

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A tiny chapel of local basalt bound with mortar, built for a congregation of twenty-six.

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Kashiragashima Church

新上五島町五島

One of Japan's few all-stone churches, whose congregation quarried the sandstone themselves and took ten years to build it.

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Old Gorin Church

五島市五島

A plain farmhouse outside and a Gothic church within - the memory of persecution built into the form.

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Old Nokubi Church

小値賀町五島

A brick church alone on a now-uninhabited island, paid for out of the fishing income of the families who settled there.

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Kuroshima Church

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Its congregation fired 400,000 bricks themselves, and laid the floor with Arita porcelain tiles.

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Tabira Church

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The masterwork of Tetsukawa Yosuke, a carpenter who built dozens of churches; his congregation carried the bricks.

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Hara Castle Ruins

南島原市島原半島

Thirty-seven thousand people were besieged here and killed; excavation turned up crosses and medals in the soil.

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Shimabara Castle

島原市島原半島

The cost of building it helped cause the rebellion; the keep is now a museum of the persecution that followed.

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Samurai Quarter of Shimabara

島原市島原半島

A water channel runs down the centre of the street - a quarter laid out for the musket corps.