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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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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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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.
NagasakiArt & CraftsHasami
Hasami Ware
Porcelain made cheap enough for ordinary households - the ware that put porcelain on the Japanese table.
Hasami
Nakaoyama Kiln Site
The remains of a 160-metre climbing kiln of 33 chambers - among the largest ever built anywhere.
NagasakiArt & CraftsSasebo
Mikawachi Ware
The Hirado domain kiln, known for Chinese children painted in blue and for pierced openwork carved into the body.
NagasakiMuseumsHirado
Matsura Historical Museum
In the lords' own residence, holding what the overseas trade brought in alongside their hawking and tea equipment.
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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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Harunotsuji Site
Identified with a kingdom named in Chinese records; the oldest boat landing in Japan was found here.
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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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Nagasaki Tortoiseshell Work
Shell joined by heat and pressure alone, with no adhesive; the skill lies in reading which piece is clear enough.
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Nagasaki Embroidery
Padded with cotton so dragons and lions stand out in relief, used on the hangings of the great autumn festival.
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Nagasaki Kunchi
Dances shaped by Chinese and Dutch contact: a dragon from China, a ship carried on shoulders from the trading port's memory. An Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan.
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Siebold Memorial Museum
For the doctor who first catalogued Japan's plants and animals for the outside world, on the site of his own house.
NagasakiArchitectureIsahaya
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.
NagasakiContemporary ArtSasebo
Kujukushima Islands
Two hundred and eight islands scattered across an inland sea - the densest island group in Japan, reading as layered planes.
Unzen
Unzen Hells
Sulphur vents breaking from the ground, and the place where Christians were executed.
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