Nagasaki

Worth seeing in and around Nagasaki

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Ōura Church

   The Oura Church or Oura Cathedral, officially the Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan, is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853. It is named after the 26 Japanese Martyrs.

   1.2 km · Roman Catholic church in Nagasaki, Japan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Urakami Cathedral

   The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, also St. Mary's Cathedral, and often known as Urakami Cathedral after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Motoomachi, Nagasaki, Japan.

   3.5 km · Roman Catholic church located in Nagasaki, Japan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

   The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum is a remembrance to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945 at 11:02:35 am.

   3.2 km · military museum · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Nagasaki Peace Park

   Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II. It is next to the Atomic Bomb Museum and near the Peace Memorial Hall.

   3.6 km · memorial park in Nagasaki, Japan · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Glover Garden

   Glover Garden is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western-style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.

   1.2 km · park in Nagasaki · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Sōfuku-ji Temple

   Sōfuku-ji is an Ōbaku Zen temple that was built by the Chinese monk Chaoran in 1629 as the family temple of the Chinese from Fuzhou, Fujian Province who settled in Nagasaki.

   1 km · Buddhist temple in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Megane Bridge

   Meganebashi or Spectacles Bridge, over the Nakashima River was built in Nagasaki in 1634 by the Chinese monk Mokusunyoujo who was in the second generation of Chinese monks living at Kofukuji Temple.

   700 m · arch bridge in Nagasaki, Japan · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Mount Inasa

   Mount Inasa is a hill to the west of Nagasaki which rises to a height of 333 metres. The Nagasaki Ropeway and the Nagasaki Inasa Mountain Slope Car allow visitors to easily travel to the summit.

   2.4 km · mountain in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument

   The Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument were built on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan in June 1962 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the canonization by the Roman Catholic Church of the Christians executed on the site on February 5, 1597. The 26 people, a mixture of 20 native Japanese Christians and six foreign priests had been arrested in Kyoto and Osaka on the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the national ruler, for preaching Christianity.

   1.1 km · Memorial in Nagasaki, Japan · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Sannō Shrine

    The Sannō Shrine, located about 800 metres south-east of the atomic bomb hypocentre in Nagasaki, is noted for its one-legged stone torii at the shrine entrance.

    2.6 km · Shinto shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

A multi-lingual call center can answer tourism-related questions in English and 16 other languages: +81-95-825-5175, 08:00-20:00 365 days a year. Save some paper by using their collection of electronic pamphlets (PDF) for several attractions.

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Things to do

1. 01
   Gunkanjima

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Where to eat

Nagasaki's most famous dish is champon (ちゃんぽん), which is a hearty dish of noodles in a pork-based broth, filled with vegetables, bacon, shrimp, squid, and scallops. Saraudon (皿うどん) is another popular dish that combines the meat, seafood, vegetables, and sauce of champon, but serves it on a plate, or 'sara', over crispy dry fried noodles.

1. 01
   Dutch Slope
2. 02
   Tsuru-chan

   Established in 1925, this is the original and perhaps still the best Turkish Rice joint (¥850 a serve) and one of Japan's first cafes.

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Getting to Nagasaki

Airports

Nagasaki (NGS), 20 km · Kyushu Saga (HSG), 60 km · Kumamoto (KMJ), 92 km

Stations

Nagasaki Station, 1 km · Hizen-Koga Station, 9.4 km · Nagayo Station, 8.3 km · Port of Nagasaki, 700 m · Urakami Station, 2.5 km

• Saga → Nagasaki

  66 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ¥1,000–1,370
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• Kumamoto → Nagasaki

  76 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · ¥1,860–2,540
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• Fukuoka → Nagasaki

  107 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ¥1,580–2,160
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