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Oura Cathedral
Japan's oldest church and the only Western-style building designated National Treasure - where hidden Christians revealed themselves after 250 years.
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Glover Garden
Nine Western houses gathered on a hillside above the harbour, including the oldest Western-style timber building in Japan.
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Spectacles Bridge
Japan's oldest stone arch bridge, built by a Chinese monk; its two arches and their reflection make the spectacles.
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Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Beside the hypocentre, built around the objects themselves - including a wall moved from the ruined cathedral.
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Urakami Cathedral
Once called the greatest church in the East, destroyed by the bomb and rebuilt; its scorched statues remain on site.
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Hashima, Gunkanjima
A coal island whose 1916 concrete apartment blocks are among Japan's oldest; abandoned in 1974 and left as a whole ruined city.
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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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Matsura Historical Museum
In the lords' own residence, holding what the overseas trade brought in alongside their hawking and tea equipment.