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Higashi-Yamate and Minami-Yamate

Nagasaki · Nagasaki · Architecture

Japanese name: 東山手・南山手の洋館群

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WHAT TO DOHigashi-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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Western houses on the old settlement hills, their cobbled slopes and retaining walls still marking the original plots.

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Higashiyamate is a town name (postal code 850-0911) in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, and also the name of an area. The latter, including part of the adjacent Oura-machi, has been selected as the Nagasaki Higashiyamate Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and is also designated the Higashiyamate Zone of the city's Higashiyamate-Minamiyamate Priority Landscape Formation District. The present Minamiyamate was, until the Edo period, land called Oura in Oura-go, Tomachi Village.

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Founded / opened:Meiji period Highlights / collection:Stone-paved slope and Western houses, Land division of the foreign settlement Genre:Architecture

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