Location: Nagasaki
Top Things to do in Nagasaki
The 10 Best Sacred & Religious Sites in Nagasaki, Kyushu-Okinawa
Nagasaki (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi, Japanese: [naɡaꜜsaki]) ( listen (help·info)) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. The city's name, 長崎, means "Long Cape" in Japanese. Nagasaki became a centre of colonial Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.
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1. Shofukuji Temple
2. Kurosaki Church
3. Shiroyama Catholic Church
4. Hongouchi Lourdes
5. Catholic Church Hongouchi
6. Karematsu Shrine
7. Sofukuji Temple
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4.0 based on 154 reviews
Built in 1629 for the city’s Chinese population, this famous Ming-style temple is the oldest building in Nagasaki.
8. Oura Catholic Church
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4.0 based on 985 reviews
The oldest wooden Gothic church in Japan was built for the exclusive use of foreign residents.
Reviewed By satokot2018
Newly remodeled recently, and they have a museum/exhibit building right next to the church where you can learn so much about the history of the hidden christian in Nagasaki. The admission fee is reasonable for all the information they offer.
9. Urakami Cathedral
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4.0 based on 396 reviews
Reviewed By tomizuta1953 - Funabashi, Japan
It’s about a ten minutes’ walk from the Peace Park to Urakami Catholic Church. The history of the church can be traced back to 1879, six years after the ban on Christianity was lifted when the first church was built. It moved to the current site a year later, construction started and the cathedral was completed in 1914. The cathedral was completely destroyed by the atomic bombing. The current cathedral was rebuilt in 1959 after a long debate on whether to preserve the ruins or not. The description on the board tells us “The A-bombed wooden statue of Virgin Mary was miraculously found among the rubble and now lays to rest in a small chapel next to the cathedral”. I may be mistaken but I believe we observed the statue on our left side after entering the cathedral. We also visited the collapsed bell tower that tumbled down to the bottom of the hill on which the cathedral stands and has been preserved to this day.
10. One-legged Torii
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4.0 based on 115 reviews
Torii are gates or arches of stone that traditionally form the entrance to Japanese temples. This one in Nagasaki stands on only one vertical pillar or leg because the other was blown away by atomic blast that destroyed most of the city in 1945. The torii is an easy walk from the Hypocenter Park.
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