Amakusa travel guide

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 built in 1966. The area on the National

road route 266 called as the Pearl Line.

Connecting the islands of Amakusa with the inland of Kumamoto

via the Uto Peninsula are Amakusa Gokyo or Amakusa Five Bridge.

You can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Amakusa from the sea

on a cruise.

The oldest Catholic Church in Amakusa and was one of the first

churches built right after the ban on Christianity was lifted. The and

Romanesque-style architecture and the chalky white structure was

rebuilt in 1933 by a French missionary priest named Father

Garnier using his own money.

A Gothic-looking church is located on a cove of a fishing village. In 1934,

a French priest Augustin Halbout MEP purchased the premises of the

former village headman and built a wooden and concrete finished church,

with Tetsukawa Yosuke’s design and construction.

The theme Museum shows History of Christianity in Amakusa and 

Shimabara Rebellion which was a peasant uprising against bakufu’s

persecution of Christians under the leadership of Amakusa Shiro

in 1637.

Built in 1602, one year after Terasawa Shimanokami hirotaka came to

Amakusa. Although Amakusa ruled by proxy for Terasawa from

Tomioka Castle, he revelled with his army in the Shimabara Rebellion

in 1637. After the rebellion, Yamasaki Kainokami Ieharu ruled from the

castle, and which was restored and enlarged to its present form. 

Sengan moutain

Observatory

Ariake Octopus

Street

Oppai Stone or breast

stone