Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument

The museum shows historical items from Japan and Europe, including letters of Francis Xavier, in three periods: early Christianity, the martyrdoms, and the hidden Christians who kept their faith under persecution. It also has replica fumie, the images residents were forced to tread on, and statues of the Virgin Mary in the form of Kannon. Funakoshi Yasutake's bronze monument depicts the martyrs, and across the road Saint Philip Church, by Imai Kenji, shows the influence of Gaudí. Popes John Paul II and Francis have both visited.