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- Glover Garden Glover's house (1863) is the oldest Western wooden building in Japan.
- Hamanomachi Arcade The whole street is National Route 324: pedestrian-only, except from 5:00 to 10:00 in the morning.
- Hashima — Battleship Island (軍艦島) Building 30, from 1916, is the first reinforced-concrete apartment block in Japan.
- Huis Ten Bosch Its illumination, 13 million LEDs, is a world record and has been winning in Japan for years.
- Kashiragashima Church Uninhabited until 1869: the former hidden Christians carved a stone church there.
- Meganebashi (Megane Bridge) Built in 1634 by a Chinese monk: in 1982 a flood swept half of it away.
- Mount Inasa Night view from 333 metres, among the three best in Japan: a ropeway 1.11 km long.
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum 25,000 volumes on nuclear issues in an underground library, 500 m from the hypocentre.
- Nagasaki Bio Park Few cages: in 1994 Japan's first hand-reared hippopotamus grew up here.
- Nagasaki Chinatown (Shinchi Chūkagai) Created in 1859 by filling in the sea: 40 shops on a 250-metre crossroads.
- Nagasaki Confucius Temple Built in 1893 by the Qing government with the resident Chinese: 72 statues of sages in the courtyard.
- Nagasaki Peace Park The right hand points to the atomic threat, the left to peace: 30 tonnes, from 1955.
- Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium (長崎ペンギン水族館) 9 of the world's 18 penguin species live here: no other aquarium keeps as many.
- Nakao-yama (Hasami pottery village) This hill town produces 13% of the tableware used every day in Japan.
- Ōura Cathedral In 1865 some farmers revealed here that they had been hidden Christians for 250 years.
- Shianbashi Yokochō The name comes from the men who decided whether to go into the red-light district or turn back.
- Shimabara Castle The taxes imposed by the man who built it in 1624 sparked the revolt of 1637–38.
- Shimabara Samurai District A water channel still runs in front of the samurai houses, which are open free of charge.
- Sofuku-ji Founded in 1629 by Chinese merchants: the oldest Chinese-style temple in Japan.
- Suwa-jinja The Kunchi procession has set out from here since 1634, always on 7–9 October, for 391 years.
- Tenkaiho (Kujukushima) 208 islands, not 99 as the name says, counted only in 2001: seen here from 165 metres.
- Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan Museum (日本二十六聖人記念館) Twenty-six bronze figures, one for each person crucified in 1597, in a wall 17 metres long.
- Unzen Jigoku Thirty vents of sulphurous steam, the scene of the martyrdom of Christians in the seventeenth century.
- Urakami Cathedral Destroyed 500 m from the hypocentre in '45: a restored bell has been ringing again since 2025.