Culture Toronagashi in Sasebo 2024 Mandy Bartok The souls of Sasebo's departed are guided back to their eternal rest by lanterns set afloat on the Sasebo River on the final ...
Culture Dejima Mandy Bartok For over 200 hundred years, the tiny island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor was Japan's only point of contact with the wider world.
9 Culture Nagasaki Ohura Church Tomoko Kamishima Ohura Church stands on a hill in the Minami-yamate section of Nagasaki. It was built in 1865 as a Catholic Church memorial to...
12 Culture Kamigoto 3: Kashiragashima Church Takako Sakamoto Photos of Kamigoto Island in Nagasaki: Kashiragashima Church. This is one of 29 churches on Kamigoto Islands. Founded by Domi...
6 Culture Megane-bashi, Nagasaki Senén Germade Megane-bashi is the oldest stone arch bridge in Japan and it got the nickname "Spectacles Bridge" due to the reflections of t...
Culture Siebold Memorial Museum in Nagasaki Alena Eckelmann The most famous German in Japan is probably Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), a national of Bavaria in present-day Germany
Culture Glover Garden in Nagasaki Alena Eckelmann Glover Garden in Nagasaki: posh residences of former foreign VIP residents in a hill on the Minami-Yamate hill
12 Culture Nagasaki's Great Buddhist Cemetery Larry Knipfing The most amazing cemetery I have ever visited is located on a mountainside up behind the many temples that run along the Tera...
9 Culture Fireworks Display at Huis Ten Bosch Senén Germade I prefer electrical storms; however, each time I know a firework display is going to take place I try not to miss it. During ...
Culture Hirado Castle Mandy Bartok Hirado castle, a modern reconstruction with 300 year old gates, stands on a hill high above the port of Hirado, where old Eur...