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Nagasaki
The quietest of Nagasaki's four great Obaku Zen temples, with a stately Chinese gate and centuries-old halls on the hillside.
A hillside open-air museum of Western merchant mansions overlooking Nagasaki harbour, born of the city's trading era.
A solemn memorial park dedicated to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and to a future without nuclear weapons.
A powerful museum documenting the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, its victims and the case for nuclear abolition.
Japan's oldest church and a UNESCO site, famed for the 1865 discovery of hidden Christians who had kept the faith in secret.
The reconstructed fan-shaped island that was Japan's sole gateway to the West during two centuries of isolation.
The mountain over Nagasaki whose summit offers one of Japan's three greatest night views across the harbour.
A striking Chinese Zen temple with vermilion gates and two National Treasures, founded by Nagasaki's Chinese community.
A 17th-century double-arched stone bridge whose reflection in the river forms the shape of a pair of spectacles.
The eerie ruined 'Battleship Island', a UNESCO-listed abandoned coal-mining city rising from the sea off Nagasaki.
Nagasaki's grand guardian shrine atop a long stone staircase, home to the vibrant autumn Kunchi festival.
A rebuilt Catholic cathedral near ground zero, symbol of Nagasaki's hidden Christian history and postwar resilience.
Japan's oldest Obaku Zen temple, founded by Chinese monks, with rare Ming-dynasty architecture in Nagasaki's temple district.
One of Japan's three great Chinatowns, birthplace of champon noodles and heart of the dazzling winter Lantern Festival.
A cobbled hillside street of preserved Western residences that recalls Nagasaki's era of foreign settlement.
The historic restaurant where champon noodles were invented in 1899, still serving the dish with a harbour view.
A rich museum devoted to Nagasaki's history as Japan's window on the world, with a reconstructed Edo magistrate's office.
A vast Dutch-themed resort of canals, windmills and seasonal flowers near Sasebo, famous for its dazzling illuminations.
A striking white reconstructed castle east of Nagasaki, tied to the tragic 17th-century Shimabara Christian rebellion.
A field of hissing sulphur vents and steaming pools in the Unzen highlands, walkable on boardwalk trails.
The active volcanic summit of the Unzen massif, reached by ropeway and famed for autumn colour and 1990s eruption scars.
A maze of 208 tiny green islands scattered off Sasebo, the heart of a national park best seen by cruise or from a hilltop.
A dazzling white-sand beach on remote Fukue Island, ranked among the most beautiful in all of Japan.
A seaside hot-spring town on Shimabara Bay, home to Japan's longest foot bath and glorious sunsets.
