19 Sights in Nagasaki, Japan (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Nagasaki, Japan. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 19 sights are available in Nagasaki, Japan.

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1. Hashima

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Hashima Island , commonly called Gunkanjima , is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres from the centre of the city. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding seawall. While the island is a symbol of the rapid industrialization of Japan, it is also a reminder of Japanese war crimes as a site of forced labour prior to and during World War II.

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2. Nagasaki Peace Park

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Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II. It is next to the Atomic Bomb Museum and near the Peace Memorial Hall.

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3. Megane Bridge

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Megane Bridge

Meganebashi (眼鏡橋) or Spectacles Bridge, over the Nakashima River (中島川) was built in Nagasaki in 1634 by the Chinese monk Mokusunyoujo who was in the second generation of Chinese monks living at Kofukuji Temple. It is said to be the oldest stone arch bridge in Japan along with Edo's Nihonbashi bridge and Iwakuni's Kintaikyou bridge and has been designated as an Important Cultural Property. Megane Bridge is also part of the first group of bridges built over Nakashima river. Megane Bridge is made of stone and is a double arch bridge. It received the nickname "Spectacles Bridge" because its two arches and their reflection in the water create the image of a pair of spectacles. Vehicles are prohibited from crossing the bridge and is strictly prohibited to pedestrians only. On July 23, 1982, a disastrous deluge washed away six of the ten stone bridges over the Nakashima River. Meganebashi was badly damaged but almost all the original stones were retrieved and the bridge was restored to its original appearance. As well as being damaged in a flood in 1982 another flood in 1647 destroyed Megane Bridge but was rebuilt the following year in 1648 by Koumu Hirado.

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4. Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

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The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum is a remembrance to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945 at 11:02:35 am. Next to the museum is the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, built in 2003. The bombing marked a new era in war, making Nagasaki a symbolic location for a memorial. The counterpart in Hiroshima is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. These locations symbolize the nuclear age, remind visitors of the vast destruction and indiscriminate death caused by nuclear weapons, and signify a commitment to peace.

Wikipedia: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (EN)

5. Hypocenter

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Hypocenter

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. The Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender on 2 September, effectively ending the war.

Wikipedia: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki (EN)

6. Glover Garden

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Glover Garden

Glover Garden is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western-style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.

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7. Oura Catholic Church

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Oura Catholic Church

The Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者聖堂) also Oura Cathedral [Church] is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853. It is also known as the Church of the 26 Japanese Martyrs. For many years it was the only Western-style building declared a national treasure, and is said to be the oldest Christian church in Japan.

Wikipedia: Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (Nagasaki) (EN), Website

8. Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum

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Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museumtravel oriented from Manila, Philippines / CC BY-SA 2.0

Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum opened in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, in 2005. The collection comprises artworks relating to Nagasaki as well as works of Spanish art collected by Suma Yakichiro , special envoy to Spain during the Second World War. Alongside the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture, which opened the same year, it supersedes and replaces the former Nagasaki Prefectural Museum and Art Museum , which closed at the end of 2002.

Wikipedia: Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum (EN), Website

9. Ono Village

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Ono Village is the former general name for the towns of Shimo-Ono and Kami-Ono and the districts of Koshishu and Tsuji in present-day Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture (Ono Village in the Edo period, Ono Village after the Meiji era), and retains the landscape of the settlement pioneered by the so-called hidden Christians. There is an Ono Church in the village, which has been designated as an important cultural property.

Wikipedia: 大野集落 (JA)

10. Dejima Dutch Trading Post

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Dejima Dutch Trading Post

Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima, was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1854). For 220 years, it was the central conduit for foreign trade and cultural exchange with Japan during the isolationist Edo period (1600–1869), and the only Japanese territory open to Westerners.

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11. Hypocenter Monument

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Hypocenter MonumentMicha L. Rieser / Attribution

In a narrow sense, hypocenter refers to the center of the explosion of nuclear weapons such as atomic bombs. In a broad sense, it refers to the center of the explosion of a powerful bomb. In addition, the place where a major incident occurs, a place where a major epidemic or social phenomenon occurs is also sometimes called the hypocenter.

Wikipedia: 爆心地 (JA)

12. Siebold Memorial Museum

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Siebold Memorial Museum was opened in Nagasaki city in 1989 in honour of Philipp Franz von Siebold's great contributions to the development of modern science in Japan. The building is modeled on his former house in Leiden and is located next to the site of his original clinic and boarding school known as Narutaki Juku.

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13. Goshinji

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Goshinji

Goshinji Temple is a temple of the Pure Land sect located in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The official name of the temple is Goshinji Temple. The main statue is a statue of Amida that is said to have originated in the Ming Kingdom. It is the oldest surviving temple in Nagasaki City.

Wikipedia: 悟真寺 (長崎市) (JA)

14. Endo Shusaku Literary Museum

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The Endo Shusaku Literary Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. It is in the Sotome district in the northwestern part of the city of Nagasaki. Sotome is famed as the home of the hidden Christians and served as the scene for Endo's novel Silence.

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15. Kameyama Shachu Museum

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Kameyama Shachu Kinenkan is a memorial hall that Nagasaki City established in 1865 by Ryoma SAKAMOTO and others in Irabayashi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, and the site of 'Kameyama Shachu,' a trading association, which was formed in Nagasaki City.

Wikipedia: 亀山社中記念館 (JA)

16. Chanpon Museum

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Shikairo is a Chinese restaurant located in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, and a company (corporation) headquartered in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, which operates the restaurant. It is known as the birthplace of champon and dish udon.

Wikipedia: 四海樓 (中華料理店) (JA)

17. 長崎縣護國神社

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Nagasaki Gokoku Shrine is a Gokoku Shrine located in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the spirits of the approximately 60,000 people from Nagasaki Prefecture who died from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War.

Wikipedia: Nagasaki Gokoku Shrine (EN)

18. Nagasakishi Noguchiyataro Memorial Museum

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Nagasakishi Noguchiyataro Memorial Museum

The Nagasaki Yataro Noguchi Memorial Museum of Art is an art museum located in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The works of Yataro Noguchi, a representative painter of the postwar Japan Western-style art scene, are on display.

Wikipedia: 長崎市野口彌太郎記念美術館 (JA)

19. Urakami Cathedral

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The Immaculate Conception Cathedral (無原罪の聖母司教座聖堂) also St. Mary's Cathedral, often known as Urakami Cathedral after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Motoomachi, Nagasaki, Japan.

Wikipedia: Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki (EN), Website, Url

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