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Glover Garden
The Portuguese and Dutch were the first to arrive when
⌂ 8-1 Minamiyamatemachi Nagasaki’s harbor opened to international trade in 1571,
v Oura Tenshudo Shita followed by Chinese merchants who established their
# 8am–6pm daily own community. The Portuguese bought Catholicism to
the city, but this minority soon faced religious persecu­
With the reopening of the tion. When Japan became a closed country in 1634, only
port to Westerners in the the Dutch were allowed to trade here. After the port
latter half of the 19th century, reopened in 1853, British, American, French, German,
Naga saki flowered as a pros­ and Prussian trade missions came to the city. The legacy
perous interna tional city. of this extraordinary foreign contact survives in some
Suitable housing was required of the local festivals and cuisine, like the Portuguese
for the sudden influx of castella, an egg­and­flour­based sponge cake.
foreigners and many of the
comfortable stone and clap­
board residencies that were Hong Kong and Shanghai e
built during this period Bank Building houses displays
survive today, preserved tracing Nagasaki’s contact Huis ten Bosch
in Glover Garden. with Western ideas. ⌂ Near Sasebo £ Huis
The best­known European­ ten Bosch # Hours vary,
style residence here is Glover check website ∑ english.
House. It was built in 1863 for w huistenbosch.co.jp
Thomas Glover, an extraor­
dinary British entre preneur Hollander Slope Built in 1992 at the staggering
whose ventures included v Shimin-Byoin-mae cost of US$1.75 billion, Huis
bringing the first steam loco­ ten Bosch is a reproduction
motive to Japan, coal mining, A pleasant cobblestone street of a traditional Dutch village.
a tea import house, ship repair built by the Dutch, the Slope Re plete with churches, houses,
yards, and the founding of a was once the center for the shops, windmills, a farmhouse,
beer company, the forerunner city’s expatriate community. and canals, it is one of the
of today’s Kirin Beer. For a time, all Westerners, largest theme parks in Japan.
Other notable buildings irrespective of nationality, Replicas of Queen Beatrix’s
in the park include Ringer were called “Hollanders” by palace and of Holland’s tallest
House, standing on founda­ the Japanese. Some of the church tower are highlights.
tion stones brought from wood en houses along the As you travel through the park
Vladivostok, and Walker House, Slope are open to the public. by horse­drawn carriage, old­
which displays the color ful One of the most imposing, the fashioned taxi, or canal boat,
floats used in the city’s annual 1868 Junibankan, was once you’ll soon forget that you
Kunchi festival. The Old the Prussian Legation building. aren’t in the Netherlands.

A reconstruction of a
historic Dutch windmill
in Huis ten Bosch

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