Matsugae-gawa

Matsugae-gawa is a stream in Nagasaki, Kyushu. Matsugae-gawa is situated nearby to the quarter Naminohiramachi, as well as near Nishikotohiramachi.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glover Garden and Oura Catholic Church.

Glover Garden

Garden

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Glover Garden is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields.

The Oura Church or Oura Cathedral, officially the Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan, is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853.

Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Exhibition

Museum

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Nagasaki Traditional Performing Arts Exhibition is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dejima and Nagasaki.

Dejima

Locality

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Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima, was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese and subsequently the Dutch.

Nagasaki

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Nagasaki is the capital of Nagasaki prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Visitors usually come to visit the Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park, the abandoned town built on a nearby island constructed for coal mining, and the reconstructed 16th-century Portuguese/Dutch trading post.

Matsugae-gawa

Type: Stream
Also known as: “Matsugaeda-gawa” and “Shōshi-gawa”
Category: body of water
Location: Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

32.73333° or 32° 44′ north

Longitude

129.86667° or 129° 52′ east

Elevation

5 metres (16 feet)

Open location code

8Q4FPVM8+8M

GeoNames ID

1857547

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Localities in the Area

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