Nagasaki retro western-style buildings free viewing

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Nagasaki has been attracting foreign investment for a long time. After Nagasaki opened to trade, the Higashiyamate area was designated as a foreign settlement. A large number of Western-style buildings were built around it. People at that time called these slopes "Oranda-sanga-dori-zaka", which was eventually shortened to "Dutch-zaka". Because during the Edo period to the Meiji period, Japan referred to Europeans and Americans as "Dutch".
Holland Slope (オランダ崎) is the name of a slope located in the Higashiyamatemachi area of ​​Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the "Higashiyamatemachi" important traditional building preservation area. Along the slope there are Western-style buildings such as Kousui Women's University, Higashiyamate 12th Building, Higashiyamate 13th Building, and Showakai Hospital.
Higashiyama Ironworks Jusanbankan (a nationally registered tangible cultural property) is a two-story Western-style building. It was built in 1894 as the French Consulate and its first resident was Mr. Anderson, the first agent of the Nagasaki branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
It is now one of the Western-style houses that can be visited for free, with a large garden in the basement, a cafe on the first floor, and some old-fashioned rooms on the second floor that are indeed free to look around.

Post by Neuhaus | Apr 1, 2025