This Cathedral is house of prayer for tens of thousands Christians who were martyred between 1612 and 1658 throughout the Shimabara Peninsula.   It was built in 1997 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of th …

Shimabara Peninsula Martyrs Memorial Cat…の続きを読む

  Father Maximilian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894 and was a priest of the Conventual Order of St. Francis. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. He came to Japan in 1930 an …

Saint Kolbe Memorial Museum, at Hongouch…の続きを読む

  Oniishibozu-jigoku is one of the recommended site along with Umi-jigoku. Oniishi shaving Head Hell, large and small bubble of hot gray mud that boiling up here look like the shaven head of monks.        …

Oniishi Bouzu-Jigoku…の続きを読む

  Christian history in Japan was started when St. Francis Xavier came to Japan as a first Christian missionary in 1549. Then Christianity was spread in Nagasaki region. However, unparalleled hidden Cristian history …

History of Japanese Christianity…の続きを読む

  Kasuga Village and Mount Yasugatake is a Christian Pilgrimage site and is registered on the World Heritage as Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region.   This idyllic, remote village was refuge to a smal …

Kasuga Village / Hidden Christian Site…の続きを読む

  Hirado is the first place where Portuguese ships landed in Japan in 1549, and after that St. Francis Xavier visited in 1550, and Japanese Christianity started here in Hirado. In the 1580s, the Portuguese establish …

Hirado travel guide…の続きを読む

  It is a thriving area of agriculture in Chikugo region, Fukuoka-prefecture  where has rich nature and many historical heritages. And also there is a Onsen Resort along the Chikugo River. The modern city of Asakura …

Asakura travel guide…の続きを読む

  Amakusa Gokyo or Amakusa five bridges, is a general term for five bridges which connects  from Misumi at the Udo peninsula to the Oyano island, the Nagaura island, Ikejima, Maejima, and Amakusa Kamishima, was buil …

Amakusa Gokyo…の続きを読む

  Nagasaki-bana Cape is the southernmost point of the Satsuma Peninsula. A walking path leads from a small cluster of souvenir shops to the tip of the cape where there stands a white lighthouse.            To t …

Nagasaki-bana Cape in Satsuma peninsula…の続きを読む

  Amakusa is situated on an archipelago consisting of several island on the west side of Kumamoto. It possesses a beautiful lush green landscape and natural geological formations giving the islands the designation “ …

Amakusa travel guide…の続きを読む