Glover's house (1863) is the oldest Western wooden building in Japan.
The garden overlooking the port brings together several nineteenth-century Western residences, moved here when it opened as a park on 4 September 1974: the oldest, Thomas Glover's house of 1863, is now recognised as the oldest surviving Western-style wooden building in Japan.
Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant, built his residence in 1863 on Minamiyamate hill, when Nagasaki had only just opened to foreign trade; he was among the first to import Western technologies and to support Meiji modernisation. The house and the structures attached to it have been an Important Cultural Property since 1961 and a component of the UNESCO site on the Meiji industrial revolution since 2015.
ℹ️ Linked to the lower entrance, near Ōura Cathedral, by the ‘Glover Sky Road’ escalator, in service since 2003. Opening hours and ticket price not confirmed by a source that could be opened within the budget of this session: stated rather than invented (three WebFetch attempts across the official site and tourist pages, all of which failed: socket closed or 404).
🚉 First floor · 4 min walk
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