Nagasaki / UNESCO World Heritage one-day tour

The Former Pattern Shop was built in 1898 to produce wooden patterns

for castings and is the oldest factory building in the shipyard. It is a

two-storied brick building with a timber roof truss. There is a U-shaped

rail on the ceiling to transport materials. The building was refurbished to

the Shipyard History Museum in 1985 and is open to the public.

The Giant Cantilever Crane is the first electric-powered crane of its type

in Japan, imported from Scotland in 1909, which is the oldest surviving

one in operation in the world. It can still lift a load of 150 tons and is

used to ship heavy goods.

Elegant international & domestic tourist harbour. Made up of around 20

unique shops and restaurants lined up at the water front, offering various

choices such Japanese, Western, and Italian cuisine, to beauty salons,

outdoor shops and more. It is quite the popular spot for people who want

to relax while viewing the sea beyond as they dine outdoors.

Only the trading port in Japan during National isolation. The fan-shaped

artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki that was a Dutch trading port as

Japan’s only open gateway to Europe during Japan’s self-imposed

isolation  of Edo period from 1641 until 1853. The Dutch East India

Company’s trading post at Dejima was closed in 1857. Since then, the

island has been surrounded by reclaimed land and merged into

Nagasaki:  its original location is marked by rivets.

Located on Minami-Yamate hill in Nagasaki-city, Glover Garden has nine 

Western style buildings including the Glover’s Residence built in 1863.

The garden takes its name  from Thomas Glover, his arms-importing

operations played an important part in the Meiji Restoration, he built the 

first train line in Japan and he even helped establish the first modern

Mitsubishi ship yard. 

Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of

Japan’s first major undersea coal exploitation (1890) pioneered by Mitsubishi

and host to one of the world’s most extraordinary former mining communities.

Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the

success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island – both

islands giving access to the same undersea coal deposit. Now Hashima is

a ruin called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the silhouette

of a battleship.