Nagasaki City (長崎市) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the 16th century.  It was formerly part of Nishisonogi District (西彼杵半島).  It was a center of Portuguese and European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries.  Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.  During World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to be subject to nuclear attack: This is a sincerest wish from Japanese people to the world: "No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki!"  (For further information of the atomic bombings, go to the Hiroshima City page.)
  Founded by the Portuguese in the second half of the 16th century, Nagasaki was originally secluded by harbours.  It enjoyed little historical significance until contact with European explorers in 1542, when a Portuguese ship landed nearby, somewhere in Kagoshima prefecture.  The Navarrese Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier arrived in another part of the territory in 1549, but left for China in 1551 and died soon afterwards.  His followers who remained behind converted a number of daimyo (大名; feudal lords).
  The little harbor village quickly grew into a diverse port city, and Portuguese products imported through Nagasaki (such as tobacco, bread, textiles and a Portuguese sponge-cake called castellas) were assimilated into popular Japanese culture.  "Tempura," while not Portuguese in origin, takes its name from the Portuguese word, 'Tempero' (noun tempero, meaning a spicy condiment or peppery seasoning, or from the verb temperar, meaning "to season" has not been substantiated), another example of the enduring effects of this cultural exchange.  The Portuguese also brought with them many goods from China.
  Due to the instability during the Sengoku Period (Warlike Ages between 15th - 16th c.), Sumitada Omura (大村純忠) and Jesuit leader Alexandro Valignano conceived a plan to pass administrative control over to the Society of Jesus rather than see the Catholic city taken over by a non-Catholic daimyo.  Thus, for a brief period after 1580, the city of Nagasaki was a Jesuit colony, under their administrative and military control. It became a refuge for Christians escaping maltreatment in other regions of Japan.  In 1587, however, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (豊臣秀吉)'s campaign to unify the country arrived in Kyushu.  Concerned with the large Christian influence in southern Japan, as well as the active and what was perceived as the arrogant role the Jesuits were playing in the Japanese political arena, Hideyoshi ordered the expulsion of all missionaries, and placed the city under his direct control.  However, the expulsion order went largely unenforced, and the fact remained that most of Nagasaki's population remained openly practicing Catholics.  In 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe was wrecked off the coast of Shikoku (サン＝フェリペ号事件), and Hideyoshi learned from its pilot that the Spanish Franciscans were the vanguard of an Iberian invasion of Japan.  In response, Hideyoshi ordered the crucifixions of twenty-six Catholics in Nagasaki on February 5 of that year (日本26聖人殉教者; the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan").  Portuguese traders were not ostracized, however, and so the city continued to thrive.  
  In 1602, Augustinian missionaries also arrived in Japan, and when Ieyasu Tokugawa (徳川家康) took power in 1603, Catholicism was still tolerated.  Many Catholic daimyo had been critical allies at the Battle of Sekigahara (関ヶ原の戦い, 1600), and the Tokugawa position was not strong enough to move against them.  Once Osaka Castle had been taken and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's offspring was killed, though, the Tokugawa dominance was assured.  In addition, the Dutch and English presence allowed trade without religious strings attached.  Thus, in 1614, Catholicism was officially banned and all missionaries ordered to leave. Most Catholic daimyo apostatized, and forced their subjects to do so, although a few would not renounce the religion and left the country for Macau, Luzon and Japantowns in Southeast Asia.  A brutal campaign of persecution followed, with thousands of converts across Kyushu and other parts of Japan killed, tortured, or forced to renounce their religion. Catholicism's last gasp as an open religion, and the last major military action in Japan until the Meiji Restoration, was the Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱) of 1637. While there is no evidence that Europeans directly incited the rebellion, Shimabara Domain had been a Christian han for several decades, and the rebels adopted many Portuguese motifs and Christian icons. Consequently, in Tokugawa society the word "Shimabara" solidified the connection between Christianity and disloyalty, constantly used again and again in Tokugawa propaganda.  The Shimabara Rebellion also convinced many policy-makers that foreign influences were more trouble than they were worth, leading to the national isolation policy.  The Portuguese, who had been previously living on a specially-constructed island-prison in Nagasaki harbor called Dejima (出島), were expelled from the archipelago altogether, and the Dutch were moved from their base at Hirado (平戸) into the trading island.  In 1720 the ban on Dutch books was lifted, causing hundreds of scholars to flood into Nagasaki to study European science and art. Consequently, Nagasaki became a major center of Rangaku (蘭学), or "Dutch Learning."  During the Edo Period, the Tokugawa Shogunate Government governed the city, appointing a hatamoto, the Nagasaki-bugyo (長崎奉行), as its chief administrator.  Consensus among historians was once that Nagasaki was Japan's only window on the world during its time as a closed country in the Tokugawa era.  However, nowadays it is generally accepted that this was not the case, since Japan interacted and traded with the Ryukyu Kingdom, Korea and Russia through Satsuma, Tsushima and Matsumae respectively.  Nevertheless, Nagasaki was depicted in contemporary art and literature as a cosmopolitan port brimming with exotic curiosities from the Western World.  
  In 1808, during the Napoleonic Wars the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Phaeton entered Nagasaki Harbor in search of Dutch trading ships.  The local magistrate was unable to resist the British demand for food, fuel, and water, later committing seppuku as a result.  Laws were passed in the wake of this incident strengthening coastal defenses, threatening death to intruding foreigners, and prompting the training of English and Russian translators. The Tojin-yashiki (唐人屋敷) or Chinese Factory in Nagasaki was also an important conduit for Chinese goods and information for the Japanese market. Various colorful Chinese merchants and artists sailed between the Chinese mainland and Nagasaki. Some actually combined the roles of merchant and artist such as 18th century Yi Hai (伊海).  It is believed that as much as one-third of the population of Nagasaki at this time may have been Chinese.  
  With the Meiji Restoration, Japan opened its doors once again to foreign trade and diplomatic relations. Nagasaki became a free port in 1859 and modernization began in earnest in 1868.  Nagasaki was officially proclaimed a city on April 1, 1889.  With Christianity legalized and the Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christian) coming out of hiding, Nagasaki regained its earlier role as a center for Roman Catholicism in Japan.  During the Meiji Period, Nagasaki became a center of heavy industry. Its main industry was ship-building, with the dockyards under control of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries becoming one of the prime contractors for the Imperial Japanese Navy, and with Nagasaki harbor used as an anchorage under the control of nearby Sasebo Naval District.  These connections with the military made Nagasaki a major target for bombing by the Allies in World War II.
  On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb attack (and second plutonium bomb; the first was tested in New Mexico, USA) at 11:02 a.m., when the north of the city was destroyed and an estimated 40,000 people were killed by the bomb nicknamed "Fat Man."  According to statistics found within Nagasaki Peace Park, the death toll from the atomic bombing totaled 73,884, as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation.
  The city was rebuilt after the war, albeit dramatically changed.  New temples were built, as well as new churches due to an increase in the presence of Christianity.  Nagasaki is the seat of a Roman Catholic Archdiocese led by Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami.  Some of the rubble was left as a memorial, such as a one-legged torii gate and an arch near ground zero. New structures were also raised as memorials, such as the Atomic Bomb Museum. Nagasaki remains first and foremost a port city, supporting a rich shipping industry and setting a strong example of perseverance and peace. On January 4, 2005 the towns of Iojima (伊王島町), Koyagi (香焼町), Nomozaki (野母崎町), Sanwa (三和町), Sotome (外海町) and Takashima (高島町), all from Nishisonogi District (西彼杵半島), were merged into Nagasaki.  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia.")
  

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(Monday 22 March) JR Nagasaki Station (JR長崎駅)

"Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan"

Nishizaka Park(西坂公園) near JR Nagasaki Station is the site of martyrdom of the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan"(日本26聖人殉教者). Now it is an international pilgrimage site. Nishizaka Park is located at the hill called "Nishizaka" (lit. the Western Hill) in Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市西坂町): 5 minutes' walk up to the Japanese version of the hill of Golgotha [Calvary] from JR Nagasaki Station. The "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan" of 1597 are: Saint Antonio Dainan, Saint Bonaventura of Miyako, Saint Cosme Takeya, Saint Francisco Branco, Saint Francisco of Nagasaki, Saint Francisco of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel de Duisco, Saint Gaius Francis, Saint Gundisalvus (Gonsalvo) Garcia, Saint Isabel Fernandez, Saint Ignatius Jorjes, Saint James Kisai, Saint Joaquim Saccachibara, Saint Juan Kisaka, Saint Juan Soan de Goto, Saint Leo Karasumaru, Saint Luis Ibaraki, Saint Martin of the Ascension Saint Mathias of Miyako, Saint Miguel Kozaki, Saint Paulo Ibaraki, Saint Paul Miki or Saint Paulo Miki, Saint Pablo Suzuki, Saint Pedro Bautista [Saint Peter Baptist], Saint Pedro Sukejiroo, Saint Philip of Jesus, Saint Thomas Kozaki and Saint Thomas Xico. On February 5, 1597, six foreign missionaries and twenty Japanese Christians were crucified on this hill. They had been arrested in Kyoto and Osaka, and taken to Nagasaki, ten years after the promulgation of the decree outlawing Christianity. Canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862, this monument erected in 1962, wants to be a tribute to their heroism. Pilgrims from all over the world come how to this hill and to pray at St. Philippos' Church behind the monument. The Navarrese Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier arrived in another part of the territory in 1549, but left for China in 1551 and died soon afterwards. His followers who remained behind converted a number of daimyo (大名; feudal lords). Due to the instability during the Sengoku Period (Warlike Ages between 15th - 16th c.), Sumitada Omura (大村純忠) and Jesuit leader Alexandro Valignano conceived a plan to pass administrative control over to the Society of Jesus rather than see the Catholic city taken over by a non-Catholic daimyo. Thus, for a brief period after 1580, the city of Nagasaki was a Jesuit colony, under their administrative and military control. It became a refuge for Christians escaping maltreatment in other regions of Japan. In 1587, however, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (豊臣秀吉)'s campaign to unify the country arrived in Kyushu. Concerned with the large Christian influence in southern Japan, as well as the active and what was perceived as the arrogant role the Jesuits were playing in the Japanese political arena, Hideyoshi ordered the expulsion of all missionaries, and placed the city under his direct control. However, the expulsion order went largely unenforced, and the fact remained that most of Nagasaki's population remained openly practicing Catholics. In 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe was wrecked off the coast of Shikoku (サン＝フェリペ号事件), and Hideyoshi learned from its pilot that the Spanish Franciscans were the vanguard of an Iberian invasion of Japan. In response, Hideyoshi ordered the crucifixions of twenty-six Catholics in Nagasaki on February 5 of that year (日本26聖人殉教者; the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan"). Portuguese traders were not ostracized, however, and so the city continued to thrive. For further information of the 16th-century Christian Mission Work, 1. go to the "Juan Goto and Crypto-Christians" page. 2. go to the "Mizusawa, Oshu City" page. 3. go to the "Ichinoseki City " page. 4. go to the "Tome City " page. 5. go to the "Azuchi-cho, Omihachiman City" page. 6. go to the "Sakai City" page. 7. go to the "Shimonoseki City" page. 8. go to the "Yamaguchi City" page. 9. go to the "Hioki City" page. 10. go to the "Kagoshima City" page. 11. go to the "Oita City" page.

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(Monday 22 March) Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市西坂町): 5 minutes' walk up to the Japanese version of the hill of Golgotha [Calvary] from JR Nagasaki Station.

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(Monday 22 March) Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A Latin inscription reading "LAUDATE DOMINUM OMNES GENTES," on the monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A Japanese translation of the passage from Book of Mark 8:34: "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." The monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City.

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(Monday 22 March) The monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) The monument dedicated to the "Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan," Nishizaka Park, Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A gravestone of a hidden Kirishitan [Christian], Urakami (浦上), Nagasaki (made in c.1764-1771), the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan Memorial Hall (日本二十六聖人記念館), Nishizaka Park, 7-8 Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan Memorial Hall (日本二十六聖人記念館), Nishizaka Park, 7-8 Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A replica of the famous portrait of St. Francis Xavier, the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan Memorial Hall (日本二十六聖人記念館), Nishizaka Park, 7-8 Nishizaka-cho, Nagasaki City

Bar-Trattoria Vivace

Bar-Trattoria Vivace (バール・トラッテリア ヴィヴァーチェ) is an Italian restaurant at 9-9 Hamaguchi-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市浜口町9-9).

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(Monday 22 March) Bar-Trattoria Vivace, 9-9 Hamaguchi-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) My lunch: Raw-ham & Rukkora Pizza and coffee, Bar-Trattoria Vivace

Urakami Cathedral

Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral (浦上教会) is located at 1-79 Motoo-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市本尾町1-79). After nearly 300-year oppression between Momoyama Period and Edo Period, Urakami Christians built the greatest Romanesque cathedral of East Asia between 1895-1925 after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. On March 17, 1865 (元治2年), 15 crypto-Christians of Urakami Village (浦上村) went to the new Catholic Oura Church (大浦天主堂) to confess their faith before Father Bernard-Thadee Petitjean (1829-1884) of Missions Etrangeres de Paris (パリ外国宣教会). It was a historical moment and a beginning of the tragedy of further martyrdom. Even after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the new Japanese Government did not allow the freedom of religion. So they regarded the discovered crypto-Christians as the targets of punishment and sent them to some unfamiliar places to be convinced to apostatize Christianity. In 1868, 66 crypto-Christians were sent to Hagi City, Yamaguchi from Urakami, Nagasaki. 63 out of the 66 apostatized. In 1869 134 Christians were sent here from Urakami and the majority did not abandon their faith. 43 Christians died until the rest were finally allowed to go back to Urakami in 1873 (明治6年). Father Villion (ビリヨン神父) of Missions Etrangeres de Paris bought the land of martyrdom in 1891 (明治24年) and built a monument for the martyrs. There were 153 crypto-Christians who were sent to the Korin-ji Temple [光琳寺] site, Tsuwano Town, Shimane from Urakami Village, Nagasaki from 1868 (明治初年) to 1873 (明治6年). They spent the tortured four years here until 54 finally apostatize their faith. 36 were tormented to death. The rest could manage to come back to Nagasaki remaining their faith in 1873 when the Japanese government finally abolished the 259-year-old Prohibition of Christianity starting from AD 1614 (慶長19年). Thus after 1873 (明治6年), Japanese Christians can pray for Jesus freely and openly. However, the original Urakami Tenshu-do was destroyed by the appalling US atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. The present cathedral is a postwar reconstruction. No photo is permitted inside. See the explanation of the Catholic Oura Church (大浦天主堂) below; see also the "Juan Goto and Crypto-Christians" page, the Tsuwano Town page and the Hagi City page.

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(Monday 22 March) Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral, 1-79 Motoo-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral, 1-79 Motoo-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral, 1-79 Motoo-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of the Holy Mother and Jesus, Uragami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral, 1-79 Motoo-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) The ruins of the original Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral destroyed by the horrifying US atomic bomb on August 9, 1945

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(Monday 22 March) The ruins of the original Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral destroyed by the horrifying US atomic bomb on August 9, 1945

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(Monday 22 March) The ruins of the original Urakami Tenshu-do (浦上天主堂) or Urakami Cathedral destroyed by the horrifying US atomic bomb on August 9, 1945

San-no-jinjya Shrine

San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社) was founded in the 15th year of Kan-ei (寛永15年) or 1638. There were four shrine gate (鳥居) before the dreadful US atomic bomb on August 9, 1945: two of them were broken and one half-broken (see the photos below). It is within a walking distance from Peace Park (平和公園).

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(Monday 22 March) San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) Existing one-legged shrine gate, San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社). This arch was built in October 1924 as the second torii arch at San-no-jinjya Shrine. The explosion of the atomic bomb at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 slapped down one of the pillars. Located only 800 meters southeast of the hypocenter, the upper parts of the arches were scorched black by the fierce radiating heat, one of the pillars and its upper parts were destroyed by the blast, and the top part of the crossbeam shifted in the opposite direction as a result of the blast pressure. An explosion of a single atomic bomb reduced the surrounding neighborhood to ashes and rubble, but this arch endured the blast and continues to this day to stand on only one pillar as though testifying to the atomic bomb devastation. The base of the pillar and its adjoining parts have been reinforced to ensure safety.

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(Monday 22 March) Existing one-legged shrine gate, San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) Broken-leg of the shrine gate, San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) The present shrine gate rope between the two atomic-bombed camphor-trees (被爆クスノキ) of San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of one of the two atomic-bombed camphor-trees (被爆クスノキ) of San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) One of the two atomic-bombed camphor-trees (被爆クスノキ) of San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) The two atomic-bombed camphor-trees (被爆クスノキ) of San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) "Semba-zuru" (千羽鶴; a string of a thousand folded-paper cranes for a special wish), San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) "Hai-den" (拝殿; the Worshippers' Hall), San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

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(Monday 22 March) "Hai-den" (拝殿; the Worshippers' Hall), San-no-jinjya Shrine (山王神社)

Peace Park

Peace Park (平和公園) is located in Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City. It is within the Urakami area (浦上地区) near the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion(原子爆弾投下中心地) at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945.

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(Monday 22 March) Entrance to Peace Park, Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Stone steps to Peace Park, Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) An inscription from a girl's diary by the Fountain of Peace, Peace Park: "I had a badly dry throat. I found so many [radiated] greasy things floating on the water. I really wanted the water anyhow, and finally drank it as it were polluted with the [radiated] greasy things." (trans. Eishiro Ito)

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(Monday 22 March) Fountain of Peace, Peace Park. When the atomic bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945, thousands of people suffered terrible burns and died begging for water. Nagasaki City and the National Council for World Peace and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons constructed the "Fountain of Peace" with donations received from all over Japan, and dedicated it as an offering of water to the victims of the atomic bomb and a prayer for the repose of their souls in 1969. The present fountain was reconstructed in August 1985.

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(Monday 22 March) Peace Park, Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A sculpture of mother holding her child (donated from the former Soviet Union [Russia] in June 1985), Peace Park

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(Monday 22 March) Sculpture titled "Joy of Life" (「人生の喜び」), Peace Park. It was donated by the Czecho-Slovak Socialist Republic in 1980 as a contribution to the "World Peace Symbol Zone," planned by Nagasaki City. It shows a jubilant mother lifting up her baby in her arms.

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(Monday 22 March) "Monument of Peoples Friendship" (「諸国民友好の像」), Peace Park. It was dedicated from the German Democratic Republic symbolizing the efforts for peace and a happy future of Mankind, for the Friendship among the Peoples in 1981.

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(Monday 22 March) "Bell of Nagasali" (「長崎の鐘」), Peace Park.

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(Monday 22 March) The Peace Statue (平和祈念像), Peace Park. This statue was erected by the citizens of Nagasaki in August, 1955, on the 10th anniversary of the devastation of this city by the atomic bomb. Thanks to contributors from Japan and abroad, the ten-meter bronze statue, which was designed by Seibo Kitamura (北村西望), was dedicated as an appeal for having world peace and a prayer that shch a catastrophe never be repeated.

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(Monday 22 March) The Peace Statue (平和祈念像), Peace Park

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(Monday 22 March) The Peace Statue (平和祈念像), Peace Park

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(Monday 22 March) Small hall of "Semba-zuru" (千羽鶴; a string of a thousand folded-paper cranes for a special wish), Peace Park

Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims (国立長崎原爆死没者追悼平和記念館) is located approximately 250 meters behind the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion, or at 7-8 Hirano-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市平野町7-8). It is a non-religious solemn hall for praying for world peace. Highly recommended if you wish world peace, whatever you are and whichever country you are from.

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

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(Monday 22 March) "Statue of the Pupils and the Teacher as Atomic-bombed Victims" (「原爆殉難教え子と教師の像」), Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (長崎原爆資料館) next to Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (長崎原爆資料館) next to Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion (原子爆弾投下中心地). The US atomic bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945, and thousands of people died and survivors suffered from burns and illnesses caused by atomic-bomb radiation. Even now A-bomb survivors can take medical treatment for free in the national policy. You can easily guess what this means....

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(Monday 22 March) Atomic Bomb Explosion Monument Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) A poem monument, Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion: 降伏の (Kofuku no) みことのり (Mikotonori) 妻をやく火 (Tsuma wo Yaku Hi) いまぞ熾りつ (Imazo Okoritsu) (An Imperial edict Of Surrender and A fire burning my wife Have been just made. (trans. Eishiro Ito)

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(Monday 22 March) At the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) "Sculpture of Mother and Children for Peace" (「平和の母子像」1986), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) "Atomic Bombing 50th Anniversary Commemorative Projects monument" (「被爆50周年記念事業碑」1997), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) "Atomic Bombing 50th Anniversary Commemorative Projects monument" (「被爆50周年記念事業碑」1997), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) "Atomic Bombing 50th Anniversary Commemorative Projects monument" (「被爆50周年記念事業碑」1997), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) "Atomic Bombing 50th Anniversary Commemorative Projects monument" (「被爆50周年記念事業碑」1997), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) Urakami Cathedral Wall Remnant (浦上天主堂遺壁), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion. Also see the photos of the present Urakami Cathedral reconstructed above. Urakami Cathedral was located on a small hill about 500 meters northeast of the atomic bomb hypocenter. Construction of the church was started in 1895 and completed in 1914 through donations and voluntary labor service to Catholic believers. In 1925, the bell towers at the church entrance also reached completion. The explosion of the atomic bomb at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 destroyed Urakami Cathedral, the grandest church in East Asia at the time. Only the broken church wall remained. A portion of the southern wall was brought here to make new way for the construction of a new church building in 1958 (see above). The stone statues on the column depict Christ and one of his apostles. Since the wall was weakened over time by exposure to the elements, the interior and surface of the wall were reinforced for safety.

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(Monday 22 March) Urakami Cathedral Wall Remnant (浦上天主堂遺壁) and the monument of the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) Inscription of the Monument of the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) Monument of the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) Monument of the Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion

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(Monday 22 March) Stone lanterns at Ten-no-zan Shotoku-ji Temple (天王山 聖徳寺 灯籠), Hypocenter of the Atomic Bomb Explosion. Located about 1.5 km south-southeast of the hypocenter, Ten-no-zan Shotoku-ji Temple was founded in the 3rd year of Kaei (嘉永3年) or 1626, and this pair of stone lanters was later donated by faithful parishioners. The atomic bomb explosion at 11:02., August 9, 1945 crushed the grand main hall (made totally of fine kyaki wood) and toppled almost all of the statues and gravestones in the temple compound. Only these stone lanterns remained standing. Donated to Nagasaki City as reminders of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing, these lanterns were re-erected on the present spot in February 1949.

The Reconstructed Dejima

The Reconstructed Nagasaki Dejima (長崎 出島) is located at 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City (長崎市出島町6-1) as an interesting museum. During the period of national isolation (鎖国時代), Dejima was the center of trade and culture in Japan, and through international exchange introduced Japan to the world. In order to enforce the government ban on Christian proselytizing by Portuguese missionaries, a manmade island to house the Portuguese covering an area of about 15,000 sq. meters was built by influential residents of Nagasaki under orders from the Tokugawa Shogunate government in 1636. This manmade island was Dejima. Dejima was a center of trade and also used as the living quarters of the Dutch employees who conducted trade, functioning both as a trade facility as well as being home to merchants. The Dutch employees and Japanese who visited Dejima were not allowed to come and go freely. Despite being Japan's window to the world, Dejima itself was a closed place. During Japan's period of national isolation, plethora of foreign culture and technology was introduced to Japan through Dejima. In the same way, Dejima represented the only window to Japan to the Dutch who collected a variety of information on Japan and its culture and disseminated it widely throughout the Western world. Dejma played a vital role as a place of international exchange between Japan and the West. (Quoted from the official pamphlet.)

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(Monday 22 March) Signpost of Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Entrance to Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Replica of the Balance (天秤量り), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City. This kind of balance was used to weigh sugar and other merchandise crried to Nagasaki on the Dutch ships. A bag of sugar was placed on one pan and measured weights on the other, and the weight of the sugar was indicated when the blance beam was parallel to the ground.

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(Monday 22 March) Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) First Ship Captain's Quarters (一番船船頭部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) No. 1 Warehouse (一番蔵; Sugar House), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) No. 2 Warehouse (二番蔵; the Tulip Warehouse"), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) No. 3 Warehouse (三番蔵; the Carnation Warehouse), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) No. 3 Warehouse (三番蔵; the Carnation Warehouse), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Head Clerk's Quarters (拝礼筆者蘭人部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) New Stone Warehouse (新石倉, originally constructed in 1865, six years after the closure of the Dutch Dejima Factory and one year before the incorporation of Dejima in the Nagasaki Foreign Settlement), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Main Gate (表門), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Main Gate (表門), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Signpost of the introduction of Badminton (バドミントン伝来之地), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Siebold Repatriated Plants Garden (絞ると里帰り植物), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Arched bridge of Siebold Repatriated Plants Garden (絞ると里帰り植物), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A cannon, Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Sundial, Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Miniature Dejima(ミニ出島, 1/15 scale), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Miniature Dejima(ミニ出島, 1/15 scale), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Miniature Dejima(ミニ出島, 1/15 scale), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Miniature Dejima(ミニ出島, 1/15 scale), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Monument to Japanese-Portuguese Friendship (「フレンドシップメモリー」first displayed at Osaka Expo 1970) made by Escultor Martins Correia, Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City. The six historic figures portrayed here are: F. Xavier (1506-1552), J. Alvares, J. Rodrigues (1561-1634), L. de Froes (1532-1597), Wenceslau de Moraes (1854-1929) and Luis de Almeida (1525-1583).

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(Monday 22 March) Hollanders' Stone Gate (オランダ石門), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) The Former Dejima Protestant Seminary (旧出島神学校) built in 1878 (明治11年) as an English school and established as a seminary in 1883 (明治16年). The present building was made in 1893 (明治26年). Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Stone Warehouse (旧石倉), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City. It was the most imposing building on Dejima, serving simultaneously as a factory office and guest reception area. The building had unique architectural features such as rooms for storage of the chief factor's food and cargo on the ground floor, a corridor running through the center, outdoor roofed stairwells, and a wood-floored sun room.

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Chief Factor's Residence (カピタン部屋), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Deputy Factors' Quarters (ヘトル部屋; not restored inside because of no information available), Dejima, 6-1 Dejima-machi, Nagasaki City

Catholic Oura Church

Catholic Oura Church (大浦天主堂) is located at 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市南山手町5-3). It is the oldest existing church in southern Japan. Construction was begun in December, 1863 and completed a year later. Dedicated to the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan on February 19, 1865. On March 17, 1865 (元治2年), 15 crypto-Christians of Urakami Village (浦上村) came to the new church to confess their faith before Father Bernard-Thadee Petitjean (1829-1884) of Missions Etrangeres de Paris (パリ外国宣教会). It was a historical moment and a beginning of the tragedy of further martyrdom. See the above explanation for Urakami Cathedral (浦上天主堂); see also the "Juan Goto and Crypto-Christians" page, the Tsuwano Town page and the Hagi City page. The church itself remains as the oldest Gothic style wooden church in Japan. It served as the cathedral church until January, 1962 when the title was transferred to the newly reconstructed Urakami Cathedral. No photo is permitted inside.

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(Monday 22 March) Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) French statue of the Holy Mother dedicated in 1866, Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City. it commemorates the joyful discovery of the hidden Christians in Nagasaki on March 17, 1865 (慶応元年).

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(Monday 22 March) 100th Anniversary Relief of Discovering the Hidden Japanese Christians (キリスト信者発見百周年記念碑) in 1965, Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of Fr. Petitjean (プチジャン神父), Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City. He instigated the resurrection of the pastoral care of the Japanese Christian community dormant since the beginning of the persecution in the early seventeenth century.

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(Monday 22 March) Bronze Bust of Pope Johannes Paulus [John Paul] II (1920-2005; r.1978-2005), Catholic Oura Church, 5-3 Minimi-Yamato-cho, Nagasaki City. He visited Japan in 1981 (昭和56年).

Glover Garden Nagasaki

Glover Garden Nagasaki (グラバー園) is located at 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City. After travelling to Nagasaki from Scotland, Thomas Blake Glover built a house on the hill in Minami-Yamate in 1863. Nagasaki then was vibrant with the energy of people looking toward a new dawn for Japan. Here were te merchants from across the oceans, pursuing dreams of fortune; the revolutionaries seeking an end to the Tokugawa Shogunate; and the youth of Japan eager to study the West. Today, over a century later, the memories of Glover's life with his Japanese wife and their children remain, untouched, along with the homes of the merchants who lived in Nagasaki and loved the city. This is a good place to reconsider the importance of Nagasaki having traded with foreign countries touching their cultures for centuries.

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(Monday 22 March) Entrance to Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Signpost of the Foregners' Settlement, Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Former Mitsubishi No. 2 Dock House (旧三菱第２ドックハウス), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A Japanese cannon made by Shuhan Takashima (高島流和砲), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Historic Fountain (歴史の泉), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Former House of the President of the Nagasaki District Court (旧長崎地方裁判所長官官舎, built in 1883), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view from Old Walker House (旧ウォーカー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of Old Ringer House (旧リンガー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Ringer House (旧リンガー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Ad of Japanese opera singer Sadako Kiwa (喜波貞子), Old Ringer House (旧リンガー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Ringer House (旧リンガー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Alt House (旧オルト住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Steel Memorila Academy (旧スチイル記念学校), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Old Steel Memorila Academy (旧スチイル記念学校), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Old Steel Memorila Academy (旧スチイル記念学校), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A view of Nagasaki Port from Old Steel Memorila Academy (旧スチイル記念学校), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) A relief of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) near the statue of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), famous for the performance of Madame Butterfly (『蝶々夫人』), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), famous for the performance of Madame Butterfly (『蝶々夫人』), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), famous for the performance of Madame Butterfly (『蝶々夫人』), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statue of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) next to the statue of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Statues of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) and of Japanese sopranist Tamaki Miura (三浦環, 1884-1946), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Monument of the Birthplace of Western Japanese Dishes (西洋料理発祥の地), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Jiyu-tei Restaurant (旧自由亭), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City: now it opens as a cafe.

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Bust of Thomas Blake Glover (1838-1911) by Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Gate to Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Old Glover House (旧グラバー住宅), Glover Garden Nagasaki, 8-1 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum

Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum (長崎伝統芸能館) is located within Glover Garden Nagasaki.

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(Monday 22 March) Courtesy of Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum

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(Monday 22 March) Courtesy of Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum

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(Monday 22 March) Courtesy of Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Museum

Ama-yadori

"Ama-yadori" (雨やどり) is a shop run by Masashi Sada (さだまさし), a popular singer-songwriter from Nagasaki City. it is located near Glover Garden Nagasaki. Their address is 4-8 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市 南山手4-8 ).

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(Monday 22 March) "Ama-yadori," 4-8 Minami-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

Confucius Joss House Chinese History Museum

Confucius Joss House Chinese History Museum (孔子廟 中国歴代博物館) is located at 10-36 Oura-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市大浦町10-36): within a walking distance from Glover Garden Nagasaki.

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(Monday 22 March) Confucius Joss House Chinese History Museum (孔子廟 中国歴代博物館), 10-36 Oura-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Confucius Joss House Chinese History Museum (孔子廟 中国歴代博物館), 10-36 Oura-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Confucius Joss House History Museum (孔子廟 中国歴代博物館), 10-36 Oura-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Confucius Joss House Chinese History Museum (孔子廟 中国歴代博物館), 10-36 Oura-cho, Nagasaki City

Hollander Slope

Hollander Slope (オランダ坂) is located in Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市東山手町). During the Edo Period, the Nagasaki locals called Western men "Oranda-san" [Messrs Hollanders]. People named this "Hollander Slope" as many foreigners came and went along the slope in the late nineteenth century.

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(Monday 22 March) Signpost of Old Oura Higashi-Yamate Foreigners' Residencial Area (大浦東山手居留地跡) at the edge of Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Information board of Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Signpost of Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

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(Monday 22 March) Hollander Slope (オランダ坂), Higashi-Yamate-cho, Nagasaki City

Chinatown

"Nagasaki Shinchi Chuka-gai" (長崎新地中華街) is the Chinatown of Nagasaki. This is one of the three Chinatowns in Japan as well as Yokohama and Kobe.

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(Monday 22 March) Gate to Minato Park (湊公園), Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Minato Park (湊公園), Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Minato Park (湊公園), Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Gate to Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Another gate to Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

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(Monday 22 March) Kairakuen (会楽園), 10-16 Shinchi-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市新地町10-16)

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(Monday 22 March) My dinner "Sara-udon" (皿うどん: deep-fried [or stir-fried] thin udon noodles topped with stir-fried vegetables and meat [or seafood]), "Kakuni-manjyu" (角煮まんじゅう: pork doughnuts) and raochu (老酒: Chinese rice wine) at Kairakuen (会楽園), 10-16 Shinchi-cho, Nagasaki City (長崎市新地町10-16)

        

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