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

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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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.

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The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki City was an event in which the Allied United States dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man" (hereinafter referred to as the atomic bomb) on Nagasaki of Japan, an Axis power, on August 9 (Thursday), at the end of World War II (Pacific War), and exploded at 11:02 a.m. This atomic bomb is the second and last nuclear weapon in human history to be used in combat as of 2024.

Wikipedia: 長崎市への原子爆弾投下 (JA)

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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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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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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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.

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The Oura Church or Oura Cathedral, officially Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者聖堂) 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.

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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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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)

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 between the Meiji Restoration and Pacific War.

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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)

Nagasaki Brick Hall is a cultural facility of Nagasaki City located in Mosato Town, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture. From April 2024, Japan Benex Co., Ltd., headquartered in Isahaya City, acquired the naming rights and nicknamed the facility "Benex Nagasaki Brick Hall".

Wikipedia: 長崎ブリックホール (JA)

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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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.

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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.

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The Kameyama Shachu Memorial Hall is a memorial hall maintained by Nagasaki City on the site of the ronin and trading society "Kameyama Shachu" formed in Nagasaki in 1865 by Sakamoto Ryoma and others in Irabayashi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 亀山社中記念館 (JA)

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.

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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.

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