Amakusa Gokyo or Amakusa five bridges, is a general term for five bridges which connects  from Misumi at the Udo peninsula to the Oyano island, the Nagaura island, Ikejima, Maejima, and Amakusa Kamishima, was buil …

Amakusa Gokyo, built in 1966…の続きを読む

  The island of Okinoshima is located in the Genkai sea between Japan and Korea,  As even landing on the island has been prohibited, the strict taboos have preserved archaeological ritual sites on the island almost …

Okinoshiam and Associated site in Munaka…の続きを読む

  Hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki regions is registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 2018.  Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese  traditional religion Shint …

Hidden Christian sites registered on Wor…の続きを読む

  Hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki regions is registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 2018.  Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese  traditional religion Shint …

Hidden Christian sites registered on Wor…の続きを読む

  Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution sites registered on UNESCO World Heritafe in 2015 Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrializati …

Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution regi…の続きを読む

  In 1868, Meiji Restoration, the most important event in Japanese history, which heralded a new era of modernization in Japan.    This revolution restored the imperial rule to Japan after more than 250years of Toku …

Meiji Restoration in 1868…の続きを読む

  In 1873, the Meiji government abolished the ban on Christianity. Believers who had been in hiding returned to Catholicism, and churches in various villages were built with a variety of designs that combined Japane …

Ban on Christianity was abolished in 187…の続きを読む

  In 1858, Tokugawa shogunate concluded treaties of amity and commerce with United States, the Netherlands, Russia, Great Britain, France, and Japan, and allowed religious freedom in the foreign residence area in Na …

Religious freedom allowed in Nagasaki in…の続きを読む

  Kanmonkyo bridge is the suspended bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits, a stretch of water separating two of Japan’s four main islands. On the Honshu side of the bridge is Shimonoseki and on the Kyushu side is Kitak …

Kanmonkyo bridge built in 1973…の続きを読む

  Karato Fish Market, is a fish market in Shimonoseki establish in 1933, and the blowfish trading volume is Japan’s highest. This market is not only the wholesale market of fresh fishes taken in the sea around Shimo …

Karato Fish Market established in 1933…の続きを読む