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, built in 1966…の続きを読む

  The 26 Martyrs Museum is dedicated to the 26 Christians who were executed here on February 5, 1597. They included both foreign missionaries and Japanese laymen. Missionary activities were prohibited at the time, a …

The 26 Martyrs Museum…の続きを読む

  The island of Okinoshima is located in the Genkai sea between Japan and Korea,  As even landing on the island has been prohibited, the strict taboos have preserved archaeological ritual sites on the island almost …

Okinoshiam and Associated site in Munaka…の続きを読む

  Hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki regions is registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 2018.  Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese  traditional religion Shint …

Hidden Christian sites registered on Wor…の続きを読む

  Hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki regions is registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 2018.  Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese  traditional religion Shint …

Hidden Christian sites registered on Wor…の続きを読む

  Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution sites registered on UNESCO World Heritafe in 2015 Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrializati …

Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution regi…の続きを読む

  Kujukushima Islands, located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese mainland in Kyushu, are a picturesque scenic spot consisting of a complex ria coastline and 208 large and small islands. There are only four inha …

Kujukushima Islands, in Sasebo, Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Kujukushima Islands, located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese mainland in Kyushu, Sasebo, Nagasaki-prefecture. There are a picturesque scenic spot consisting of a complex ria coastline and 208 large and smal …

Kujukushima Islands, in Sasebo, Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Hiraodai Karst Plateau & Caves is located in Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture. One of the three largest karst plateau in Japan. At altitudes between 400 and 600 meters above sea level and stretching 6 km fr …

Hiraodai Karst Plateau & Caves, in Fukuo…の続きを読む

  Ino Tadataka started surveying the land of Japan at the age of 56, and spent 17 years creating Japan’s first accurate map of Japan based on actual measurements. The map was completed in 1821, three years after his …

Accurate Japanese map completed by Ino T…の続きを読む