Construction of the original Urakami Cathedral, a brick Romanesque building, began in 1895, after a long-standing ban on Christianity was lifted. When completed in 1914, it was the largest Catholic church in East …

Urakami Cathedral, in Nagasaki, construc…の続きを読む

  Imamura Cathedral is located in Tachiarai, Fukuoka-prefecture. A Christian group was born in this region in the late 16th century. When Christianity was banned, I continued my faith as a hidden Christian. The twin …

Imamura Cathedral, in Fukuoka-prefecture…の続きを読む

  Imamura Cathedral is located in Tachiarai, Fukuoka-prefecture. A Christian group was born in this region in the late 16th century. When Christianity was banned, I continued my faith as a hidden Christian. The twin …

Imamura Cathedral, in Fukuoka-prefecture…の続きを読む

  Yamano Church was built in 1924 in the Yamano area, where is halfway of Mount Yasuman. Most people living in this area are Christians.   The ancestors of the Yamano village fled persecution from Nishisonogi a …

Yamano Church, in Hirado…の続きを読む

  Faced with crises from overseas countries, the Shogunate established the  Naval training school  in Nagasaki in 1955 with support from the Dutch.    Excellent people from all over the Japan were gathered in Nagasa …

Naval training school in Nagasaki establ…の続きを読む

  The peaceful Sotome, the setting of Endo Shusaku’s novel Silence. Sotome area of Nagasaki city has an abundance of natural beauty in its sea, mountains and rivers. It also is blessed with a unique history and cult …

Endo Shusaku Literary Museum…の続きを読む

  Beppu’s most hyped attraction, Hell (Jigoku Meguri ) tour that is a collection of hot spring where the water bubbles forth from underground, often with unusual result.  Five of the hells are located in the Kannawa …

Beppu Hell tour, in Beppu, Oita-prefectu…の続きを読む

  Santo Domingo Church was built in Nagasaki in 1609 by the Dominican Father Francisco de Morales, using materials from a demolished church in Kagoshima.   The ruins of the church were discovered in 2002 during an a …

Santo Domingo Church, built in 1609…の続きを読む

  Located on the lower slopes of the Kirishima Mountain with a distant view over Kagoshima Bay and Sakurajima below.  The area is made up of over a dozen Onsen, of which the largest and best know is Maruo Onsen. Wit …

Kirishiama…の続きを読む

  This is the Japan’s first constructed Reflectance Furnace. In the late Edo period when the necessity of maritime defence increased, the Saga clan built the Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace for making cast iron-made Wes …

Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace, in 1850…の続きを読む