What to do in Nagasaki? Dejima, Dutch island, Tradingport, oldest Chinatown in Japan! [4K]

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00:00:00 Introduction Nagasaki
00:00:35 Dejima Dutch island in Nagasaki / Tradingport
00:02:30 Inside Dejima
00:08:45 Oldest chinatown in Japan!

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Location: Nagasaki, Japan
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Welcome to Nagasaki in Japan.
Nagasaki is known for many things for example the beautiful volcanoes, many Islands, delicious seafood the Christian headquarter of emissary work in Japan, and the atomic bombing in the second world war.
But Nagasaki is also famous as the only trading port during the 16th to 19th centuries to trade with the Netherlands and China.
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Actually most of the time it was the only port that was allowed to trade with other countries!
The Dutch East India Company’s trading post at Dejima was abolished when Japan concluded the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1858.
This ended Dejima’s role as Japan’s only window on the Western world during the era of national isolation.
Dejima today is a work in progress.
This is the Old entrance before the Bridge was finished.
We didn’t know that so we had to turn around.
The island was designated a national historic site in 1922, but further steps were slow to follow.
Restoration work was started in 1953, but that project languished.
In 1996, the restoration of Dejima began with plans for reconstructing 25 buildings in their early 19th-century state.
Buildings that remained from the Meiji period were used to reconstruct the buildings.
To better display Dejima’s fan-shaped form, the project anticipated rebuilding only parts of the surrounding embankment wall that had once enclosed the island.
Now, most of the Buildings are open for visitors, also the bridge which was and will be in the future the only entrance to this island was finished in 2017.
Even now the restoration is not finished and there is a plan to change the river that passes in front of dejima to surround the „island“ and make it a real island again.
But that will be many years in the future.
The entrance fee is 510 JPY for each adult which is around 4$ currently.
Once you enter you can see Beautiful Houses designed after the Old buildings from the 19th century. Inside the Buildings, you can find a Museum giving lots of Information and showing real Items found from the remains of the destroyed island Dejima.
They also show technology that was brought over from the Netherlands.
For example Photography, Badminton, Chocolate, Coffee and many more things.
This place used to be a kitchen This is an original cannon back from one of the Dutch Ships with a restaurant stand.
This is the House of the Captain from the Netherlands it has a very interesting style with a mix of Japanese and European styles.
Here you can see the medical room with many medical supplies.
The chairs on the left are for the people waiting, while the doctor operates on the XXX.
This is the dinner Area showing real food from that time and all these rooms are in the captain’s house.
We bought this delicious locally produced cider.
These are the scales that were used back then to weigh the Products.
Then there is this cute garden with a miniature version of Dejima.
As we finished our tour of Dejima we went to another attraction that is very close by, just a 5-minute walk.
We visited Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown to get some delicious street food and enjoy this busy atmosphere.
The architecture is very beautiful and colorful.
On New Year there is a big festival with lots of lanterns.
This area was originally the location of the warehouses of Chinese merchants, who traded goods to Japan from the 15th to 19th centuries.
And it was also a separate Island like Dejima. It is the oldest Chinatown in all of Japan!
They lived in the ‚Chinese residence‘ (Tojin yashiki) a little to thesoutheastt (today’s Kannaimachi 館内町).
The Chinese traders came to Nagasaki because it was the only open port in Japan during the Tokugawa period.
The Tokugawa government allowed only Nagasaki to stay open to Chinese and Dutch traders, closing off the rest of Japan to prevent European political influence and the spread of Christianity.
Strict rules were placed on these Chinese traders, forcing them to stay within the precincts of the Tojin yashiki at night.
Anyone found outside the area during prohibited times was arrested by the local guard.