Nagasaki's International Heritage Walk
Nagasaki · Japan
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Walk through the unique districts where Japan once opened its doors to the world. You will encounter Chinese temples, Dutch trading ruins, and early Christian architecture. This route reveals how diverse global influences shaped the city's distinct cultural landscape.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Megane Bridge
Japan's oldest stone arch bridge, built by a Chinese monk and survived by the strength of its original stones.
Suwa-jinja Shrine
A Shinto stronghold built to root out Hidden Christians and a survivor of the atomic bomb.
Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture
The only window Japan kept open to the world during centuries of isolation.
Kofukuji Temple
The first temple of the Obaku Zen school in Japan, where a Chinese sea goddess keeps watch.
Teramachi
Teramachi is a square and quarter in Nagasaki, Japan.
Soufukuji Temple
A Ming dynasty architectural transplant built for the Chinese merchants of Fuzhou.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Nagasaki
6 walks
How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.