The Japanese and Western Restaurant at the Mitsui Club. You can enjoy grilled curry that originated from Moji Port.   Mitsui Club was built by the Mitsui Co., Ltd in 1921 as a reception center  and to provide accommodation for VIP’s. It is now designated as an important cultural property. Dr. Albert Einstein who awarded Nobel Prize in Physics stayed here. 

Mitsui Club Japanese and Western Restaur…の続きを読む

  The Church is dedicated to Antonio Ishida and others who were martyred in the Unzen jigoku from 1627 to 1632 and was built in 1982 to commemorate Pope John Paul II’s visit to Nagasaki.   The number of believers in the church is small, but many pilgrims visit, since it is also a place of martyrdom.

Catholic Unzen Church, built in 1982…の続きを読む

  The Church is dedicated to Antonio Ishida and others who were martyred in the Unzen jigoku from 1627 to 1632 and was built in 1982 to commemorate Pope John Paul II’s visit to Nagasaki.   The number of believers in the church is small, but many pilgrims visit, since it is also a place of martyrdom.

Catholic Unzen Church…の続きを読む

  After the ban on Christianity lifted in 1873, Burnside who was the British Church Missionary  created a cram school at his home to teach the English Bible. In 1877, the school was moved to the Dejima English-Japanese School building at Dejima, and St. Andrew’s Seminary was opened. It was then used as the Seminary until 1886.

St. Andrew's Seminary at Dejima, in Naga…の続きを読む

  After the ban on Christianity lifted in 1873, Burnside who was the British Church Missionary  created a cram school at his home to teach the English Bible. In 1877, the school was moved to the Dejima English-Japanese School building at Dejima, and St. Andrew’s Seminary was opened. It was then used as the Seminary until 1886.

St. Andrew's Seminary at Dejima, opened …の続きを読む

  The museum is a Christian Pilgrimage site shows History of Christianity in Amakusa and Shimabara Rebellion which was a peasant uprising agaist bakufu’s persecution of Christians under the leadership of Amakusa Shiro in 1637.

Amakusa Shiro Memorial Hall, in Amakusa…の続きを読む

  The museum is a Christian Pilgrimage site shows History of Christianity in Amakusa and Shimabara Rebellion which was a peasant uprising agaist bakufu’s persecution of Christians under the leadership of Amakusa Shiro in 1637.

Amakusa Shiro Memorial Hall, in Amakusa…の続きを読む

  The museum has Environmental learning function, Environmental information function and Environmental activity function. The Environmental improvement history of Kitakyushu, Global warming and other various environmental issues can be learned.

Environmental Museum, in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

  Enjoy the magnificent scenery of Aso. The Minami Aso railway is a private railroad offering a very scenic ride from Takamori to Nakamatsu in the south east of the caldera. Lovely and magnificent scenery can be enjoyed on a pleasant 30 minute train ride.

Aso Tourist Tram, in southern Aso, Kumam…の続きを読む

  Soaring 1375 metres into the sky, Mount Tsurumi is a breath taking mountain overlooking Beppu that offers some decent hiking, rare flora and outstanding vistas.  Visitors can take a ropeway 800 metres up and revel in being surrounded by acres of rolling greenery.   On clear days, you can see as far as the Kuju Mountains, a famous mountain range that runs between Oita and Kumamoto-prefectures.

Mount Tsurumi, in Beppu, Oita-prefecture…の続きを読む