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Main Attractions
Nagasaki Peace Park - Nagasaki
Peace Park commemorates the city's destruction by the atomic
bomb dropped on August
9, 1945. In the park stand the massive Peace Statue as well
as various other statues.
A monument with a black pillar marks
the atomic explosion's epicenter in the nearby Hypocenter
Park and stores the name list of bomb
victims. Above the park stands the sobering Nagasaki A-Bomb
Museum.
Sofukuji - Sofukuji was constructed in 1629 for
Nagasaki's Chinese residents according to contemporary Chinese
architecture. Consequently, the temple looks and feels more
Chinese than most other temples in Japan. Sofukuji belongs
to the Obaku school of Japanese Zen Buddhism.
Chinatown - Nagasaki Chinatown,
also known as Shinchimachi, is Japan's oldest chinatown, established
as early
as the 17th century, due to the fact that Nagasaki's port remained
the country's only major port opened to Chinese trade during
the era of isolation.
Over the centuries, Shinchimachi's residents
have given the city of Nagasaki a Chinese touch not seen
in any other of Japan's
major cities.
Today, Nagasaki's chinatown is well known for its many restaurants,
specialized in champon, the famous local noodle dish and other
Chinese or Chinese influenced dishes.
Glover Garden - Glover Garden
is an open air museum, exhibiting mansions of former Western
residents of
Nagasaki. It is located on the hill where Western merchants
settled down after the end of Japan's era of seclusion in the
second half of the 19th century.
The exhibited buildings include
the mansions of British merchants Frederick Ringer and William
Alt and the former residence of
Thomas Glover, a Scottish merchant. A nice panorama of the
city can be enjoyed from the garden.
Oura Cathedral - Oura Catholic
Church was constructed in the last years of the Edo Period
in 1864 after Japan's era
of seclusion came to an end and Western merchants started to
settle down in Nagasaki.
The church was built exclusively for
Nagasaki's foreign community, as the Japanese themselves
were not allowed to practice Christianity
until 1872.
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