Temple
Sofuku-ji
Nagasaki•1.0km(13 min walk)
Dejima
出島Nagasaki
Historic area
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Dejima was an artificial fan-shaped island in Nagasaki, built by the Tokugawa shogunate between 1634 and 1636 and covering about 1.5 hectares. The Portuguese traded here first, and from 1641 to 1859 the Dutch East India Company did. During the long period of national isolation it was the only place in Japan open to Western traders.
Outside the trading season, around fifteen Dutch staff lived on the island under the watch of Nagasaki officials, with their movements tightly restricted. Even so, Dejima was a channel for Western knowledge, and Japanese scholars studied Western science and medicine through the Dutch language in the movement called rangaku. Land reclamation later joined the island to the mainland, and the site became a National Historic Site in 1922. Since 1996 the city of Nagasaki has been working to restore its Edo-period appearance.
Goshuin within a short walk
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Visit Duration
75 minutes
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