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2026/09/16

Festival · Nagasaki · Kyushu

Nagasaki Kunchi / Okunchi

This 380-year-old shrine festival blends Japanese folk dances with dragon processions and Dutch-influenced performances held across four venues in Nagasaki.

Nagasaki · 7–9 Oct 2026

Temple · Nagasaki · Kyushu

Kofukuji Temple

The first Chinese temple built in Nagasaki, founded in 1620, and the place where the Obaku school of Zen began in Japan.

Nagasaki

Festival · Nagasaki · Kyushu

Nagasaki Lantern Festival

The festival illuminates Nagasaki's streets with around 15,000 Chinese lanterns, some reaching 10 metres, celebrating Lunar New Year traditions.

Nagasaki · 6–23 Feb 2027

Temple · Nagasaki · Kyushu

Sofukuji Temple

A Chinese temple in Nagasaki founded in 1629 by merchants from Fujian, with two buildings that are National Treasures.

Nagasaki

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Higashisonogi27°
Iki26°
Ojika26°

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Festival

Nagasaki Kunchi / Okunchi

This 380-year-old shrine festival blends Japanese folk dances with dragon processions and Dutch-influenced performances held across four venues in Nagasaki.

7–9 Oct 2026Nagasaki

Festival

Nagasaki Lantern Festival

The festival illuminates Nagasaki's streets with around 15,000 Chinese lanterns, some reaching 10 metres, celebrating Lunar New Year traditions.

6–23 Feb 2027Nagasaki

Museum

Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

Opened in 2005 on the site of an Edo-period magistrate's office, this museum explores Nagasaki's distinctive history as Japan's historical gateway to overseas exchange.

Nagasaki

Historic Site

Glover Garden

A hillside park in Nagasaki holding the Western houses of the foreign settlement, among them the oldest wooden Western building in Japan.

Nagasaki

Historic Site

Dejima

The fan-shaped island in Nagasaki that was Japan's only opening to the West for more than two centuries, now rebuilt street by street.

Nagasaki

Area & Points of Interest

Gunkanjima

An abandoned coal mining island off Nagasaki, once the most crowded place in Japan, left empty since the mine closed in 1974.

Nagasaki

Area & Points of Interest

Nagasaki Confucius Shrine

The only Confucius temple in Japan built in full Chinese style, put up in 1893 by the Qing government and the Chinese community of Nagasaki.

Nagasaki

Shrine

Suwa Shrine

The tutelary shrine of Nagasaki, re-established in 1625 after the city had been church land, and home of the Kunchi festival.

Nagasaki

Temple

Sofukuji Temple

A Chinese temple in Nagasaki founded in 1629 by merchants from Fujian, with two buildings that are National Treasures.

Nagasaki

Temple

Kofukuji Temple

The first Chinese temple built in Nagasaki, founded in 1620, and the place where the Obaku school of Zen began in Japan.

Nagasaki

Park & Garden

Nagasaki Peace Park

A memorial park near the Nagasaki hypocentre, built around the great bronze Peace Statue and peace monuments donated by nations around the world.

Nagasaki

Zoo & Wildlife

Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium

Specialized aquarium featuring approximately 180 penguins from nine species, with interactive exhibits including a natural sea swimming environment.

Nagasaki

Area & Points of Interest

Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

This historic Chinatown in Nagasaki, among Japan's oldest, was established by Chinese traders in the late 16th century with traditional architecture and Chinese New Year festivities.

Nagasaki

Shrine

Chinzei Grand Shrine Suwa Shrine

This Nagasaki shrine dedicated to the sea god offers traditional architecture, serene gardens, and hosts an annual August festival honoring maritime heritage.

Nagasaki

Festival

Nagasaki Kunchi / Okunchi

This 380-year-old shrine festival blends Japanese folk dances with dragon processions and Dutch-influenced performances held across four venues in Nagasaki.

7–9 Oct 2026Nagasaki

Festival

Nagasaki Lantern Festival

The festival illuminates Nagasaki's streets with around 15,000 Chinese lanterns, some reaching 10 metres, celebrating Lunar New Year traditions.

6–23 Feb 2027Nagasaki

Museum

Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

Opened in 2005 on the site of an Edo-period magistrate's office, this museum explores Nagasaki's distinctive history as Japan's historical gateway to overseas exchange.

Nagasaki

Historic Site

Glover Garden

A hillside park in Nagasaki holding the Western houses of the foreign settlement, among them the oldest wooden Western building in Japan.

Nagasaki

Historic Site

Dejima

The fan-shaped island in Nagasaki that was Japan's only opening to the West for more than two centuries, now rebuilt street by street.

Nagasaki

Area & Points of Interest

Gunkanjima

An abandoned coal mining island off Nagasaki, once the most crowded place in Japan, left empty since the mine closed in 1974.

Nagasaki

Area & Points of Interest

Nagasaki Confucius Shrine

The only Confucius temple in Japan built in full Chinese style, put up in 1893 by the Qing government and the Chinese community of Nagasaki.

Nagasaki

Shrine

Suwa Shrine

The tutelary shrine of Nagasaki, re-established in 1625 after the city had been church land, and home of the Kunchi festival.

Nagasaki

Temple

Jofukuji

A temple at Emukae in Sasebo where the maples of the garden are shown upside down, reflected in a panel set into the floor of the hall.

Sasebo · Nagasaki

Historic Site

Former Nokubi Church

A brick church of 1908 on an island in Nagasaki that now has no inhabitants, built by seventeen households of former hidden Christians.

Ojika · Nagasaki

Shrine

Kunikatanushi Shrine

A shrine at the centre of the island of Iki, founded in 811, to the small god Sukunahikona and to Sugawara no Michizane.

Iki · Nagasaki

Museum

Higashisonogi Town History and Folklore Museum

A local museum in a park built around Hisagozuka, one of the largest burial mounds in Nagasaki, covering the area from the stone age to the Edo road.

Higashisonogi · Nagasaki

Temple

Sofukuji Temple

A Chinese temple in Nagasaki founded in 1629 by merchants from Fujian, with two buildings that are National Treasures.

Nagasaki

Temple

Kofukuji Temple

The first Chinese temple built in Nagasaki, founded in 1620, and the place where the Obaku school of Zen began in Japan.

Nagasaki

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