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The glowing lights of the
buildings lining Nagasaki's
historic harbor at dusk

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NAGASAKI Spectacles Bridge

⌂ 10-min walk from
station v Nigiwaibashi,
長崎 Kokaidomae
One of the most photographed
! A6 ⌂ Nagasaki Prefecture k 25 miles (40 km) NE £ JR
line n In JR Nagasaki Stn; www.travel.at-nagasaki.jp/en sights in Nagasaki is the curious
Megane-bashi, or Spectacles
A history of contact and interaction with Europe, even Bridge, a Chinese bequest to
after foreign powers were expelled elsewhere in the the city. Built by the Zen priest
country in the 17th century, its tragic fate as victim Mozi in 1634, it remains the
of the second atomic bomb in 1945, and miraculous oldest stone bridge in Japan.
It earned its name because the
resurgence since the war have made Nagasaki one of curve of the bridge reflected
the most cosmopolitan and eclectic cities in Japan. in the Nakashima River resem-
bles a pair of glasses.

1 crucified on Nishizaka Hill, the
first of over 600 documented
Shrine to the martyrdoms in the Nagasaki 3 "
26 Martyrs area alone. A stone relief, a Dejima
small chapel, and a museum
⌂ 5-min walk from station ⌂ 6-1 Dejimamachi § (095)
# Museum: 9am–5pm daily honor the martyrs who, in 829-1194 v Dejima
1862, were declared saints by
Christianity was officially the Pope. Without a clergy or # 8am–6pm daily
banned in 1597 by the shogun a single chapel to worship in, After the Portuguese were
Toyotomi Hideyoshi who Christian ity, astonishingly, expelled from Japan in 1638,
feared that conversions would managed to survive covertly the Dutch, confined to the tiny
lead to political intrigues and for another 200 years until the island of Dejima, were the only
the undermining of the state end of Japan’s isolationism. foreign power permitted to
by foreign powers. In that
year, to emphasize the point,
26 defiant Christians were

The simple stone relief
depicting the 26 Christian
martyrs of Nagasaki
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