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Sights in Hirado, Nagasaki
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Kawauchi Pass
About 30 hectares of grassland with Hirado azaleas, summer green, autumn pampas, and winter burning.
Tabira Church
Last brick church designed and built by Yosuke Tetsukawa in 1918. Visits require advance contact.
Obae Lighthouse
White lighthouse on a sheer cliff about 100 meters high, with panoramic views and orange sunsets.
Hirado Dutch Trading Post
1639 warehouse stored trade goods and now shows records. Hirado was Japan's only Dutch port for about 33 years.
Ikitsuki Sunset Way
Drive route after Ikitsuki Bridge: East China Sea, cliffs, sunsets, and film locations.
View of Temples and a Church
Hilltop view of Hirado Xavier Memorial Church's green spire above three temples' tiled roofs.
Hirado Bridge
Red 665-meter bridge linking the mainland and Hirado, free since 2010 and illuminated at night.
Hirado Castle
Castle built in the rare Yamaga style, reopened in 2021 with digital history exhibits and a strait observatory.
Shiotawara Cliffs
Columnar-jointed basalt cliffs, 500 meters long and 20 meters high, chosen for Nagasaki's tourism 100.
Hirado City Ikitsuki Town Museum and Island Hall
Museum introducing whaling history, hidden Christian faith, folklore, and over 250 fish specimens.
Sacred Places and Villages of Hirado (Kasuga Village and Mount Yasuman)
Hidden Christian cultural landscape and World Heritage component, with high stone-walled terraces under Mount Yasuman.
Matsura Historical Museum
1893 Matsura residence, now Nagasaki Prefecture's most historic museum, holding designated documents and armor.
Sacred Places and Villages of Hirado (Nakae-no-Shima)
Uninhabited island 2 km off Hirado where Christians were executed and Hidden Christians collect holy water.
Saiwai Bridge (Dutch Bridge)
Early-1600s stone bridge built with Dutch techniques, linking castle and town, restored with its gate in 1984.
Zheng Chenggong Memorial Museum
Museum on Zheng Chenggong, son of Zheng Zhilong and Nagasaki merchant's daughter Tagawa Matsu.
Konoura Townscape in Oshima Village
Whaling village of Edo-to-Meiji wooden houses, an important traditional port-town preservation district.
Saikyo-ji (Three-story Pagoda and Treasure Hall)
Kukai sacred site with a treasure hall and a 33.5-meter three-story pagoda built in 1988.
Sakikata Park
Hilltop view from Hirado Port to downtown, plus Xavier monument, Adams mound, and first church site.
Hirado City Christian Museum
Museum beside Nejishi Beach on Hirado Christian mission history and hidden faith.
Nagayama Residence (Akashiya)
Shipping-agent house rebuilt in 1904, said to have hosted secret talks by Restoration activists.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen
Garden named around 1800 for many plum trees; its building is now a museum overlooking Kujukushima.
Danjiku-sama
Shrine honoring a Christian family of three executed after hiding in bamboo on Ikitsuki.
Kameoka Shrine
Shrine with a kagura hall where nationally designated Hirado Kagura can be seen every October 26.
Jigen Cherry Tree
About 140-year-old cherry in Hirado, a city natural monument possibly planted by Catholic settlers.
Tsubuteiwa
287-meter tuff-breccia mountain in southwest Hirado, with a cliff-like pebble summit and rock plants.