DESHIMA

Deshima represented Nagasaki's -- and Japan's -- "Window to the West" for a two hundred year period during which the Tokugawa regime essentially cut itself off from contact with the outside world beginning in the seventeenth century. At the time, separated from the mainland and with only a single entrance gate granting access, the artificially-constructed island acted as home to a few resident Dutch merchants during the periods between the annual visits to the city by ships from the Dutch East Indies. Today the buildings that once crowded the island, now incorporated into the mainland, havr been reconstructed as a reminder of this period in the city's history.

NAGASAKI DOWNTOWN STROLL DESHIMA HARBOR VIEWS

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