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Giant Cantilever Crane
Imported from Scotland in 1909 and still lifting - an industrial machine that has worked for over a century.
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Kosuge Slip Dock
Japan's first Western-style repair dock, hauling ships up rails onto land; the brick slipway survives intact.
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Higashi-Yamate and Minami-Yamate
Western houses on the old settlement hills, their cobbled slopes and retaining walls still marking the original plots.
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Shitsu Church and the de Rotz Buildings
A French priest designed and built these with the villagers, keeping them low against the wind.
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Ono Church
A tiny chapel of local basalt bound with mortar, built for a congregation of twenty-six.
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Kashiragashima Church
One of Japan's few all-stone churches, whose congregation quarried the sandstone themselves and took ten years to build it.
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Old Gorin Church
A plain farmhouse outside and a Gothic church within - the memory of persecution built into the form.
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Old Nokubi Church
A brick church alone on a now-uninhabited island, paid for out of the fishing income of the families who settled there.
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Kuroshima Church
Its congregation fired 400,000 bricks themselves, and laid the floor with Arita porcelain tiles.
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Tabira Church
The masterwork of Tetsukawa Yosuke, a carpenter who built dozens of churches; his congregation carried the bricks.
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Hara Castle Ruins
Thirty-seven thousand people were besieged here and killed; excavation turned up crosses and medals in the soil.
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Shimabara Castle
The cost of building it helped cause the rebellion; the keep is now a museum of the persecution that followed.
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Samurai Quarter of Shimabara
A water channel runs down the centre of the street - a quarter laid out for the musket corps.
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Nakaoyama Kiln Site
The remains of a 160-metre climbing kiln of 33 chambers - among the largest ever built anywhere.
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Hirado Dutch Trading Post
The Dutch East India Company's post, older than Dejima; its stone warehouse - Japan's first Western masonry - has been rebuilt.
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Hario Radio Towers
Three concrete towers 136 metres tall standing in a triangle - a scale hard to credit for 1922, and still self-supporting.
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Watazumi Shrine
Two of its five gates stand in the sea; at high tide the approach vanishes and the shrine appears to float.
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Isahaya Spectacles Bridge
Slated for removal after a flood, it was instead moved to a park - an early case of relocating a stone bridge to save it.
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Hirado Streets
From one slope a church spire appears over temple roofs - two faiths caught in a single frame.
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Tetsukawa Yosuke's Churches
A carpenter who taught himself Western building and invented a way to raise rib vaults in timber.
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Stone Roofs of Tsushima
Sheds roofed with split stone, because the wind here tears thatch away.
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Chinese Temples of Nagasaki
Four temples built by resident Chinese - examples that brought in Chinese styles through Chinese and Japanese craftsmen.
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Hillside City of Nagasaki
Houses stacked in a bowl of hills, some slopes too steep for cars - so inclined lifts were installed to carry goods.
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Former Naval Facilities of Sasebo
A city built as a naval port, its brick warehouses and yards still ranged along the water.