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Located near the site of Ishida Castle (Fukue Castle), the street is followed by an old stone wall fence that still bears the image of the Edo period. Along the roughly 400m street connecting Nakachō and Minami-cho, dwellings of the middle-class samurai class of Goshima Domain (Fukue Domain) were once lined. The round pebbles piled in the shape of a kamaboko on the stone wall are called "spilling stones", and are said to have the role of a weapon in the event of an emergency to inform the intruder from outside by sound. In the middle of the street, there are facilities such as the "Fukue Samurai Yashiki Street Furusato-kan", which was built on the site of the city's designated historic site, "Fukue Samurai Yashiki Street", and the "Yamamoto Niisō Museum", which uses the samurai Yashiki Matsuzo residence, which can be enjoyed even just by walking.

It is a constituent asset of the World Cultural Heritage "Hidden Christian Related Heritage of Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region" and is one of the destinations chosen by Hidden Christian to maintain the community of faith. At the end of the 18th century, due to a pact between the Goshima Domain and the Omura Domain, a lurking Christian peasant from the Omura Domain's open sea area moved to Kugashima as well as a settler. He created settlements such as Nagasato and Hoseishi-ryū [zazare], Ōkai [Obiraki], and Gouren. He said that he continued his faith secretly, mainly with leaders in each settlement, such as offering prayers to Maria Guanyin, who made the Guanyin statue a Maria statue. The inspiration for the "Goshima Collapse", a Christian crackdown that began in the first year of the Meiji era (1868), was that the hiding Christians of Kugashima and others were baptized in Nagasaki. Even now, historical sites such as the "Conciliation of the Prison" remain on the island, the remains of the loculo site of the fishing net-rolling operation carried out with Buddhist islanders, the Hamawaki Church and the Old Olympics Church built after the lifting of the ban, the hidden Christian cemeteries that remain in each settlement tell the history.

One of the constituent assets of the World Cultural Heritage "Hidden Christian Related Heritage of Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region". Egami Settlement is a settlement located in the northwestern part of Naru Island in the central Five Island Islands. In the late Edo period, some of the hidden Christians who had migrated from the outer waters of the Omura clan in a pact with the Goshima Domain formed settlements in various places on the island, including Nagahae, Tsubakihara, and Nanetsu in Naru. Four houses were also settled in Egami, a valley close to the remote sea. It said that each settlement continued their faith secretly, with leaders as the center, and many people maintained their hiding-era faith in Narushima even after the ban on Christianity. All of the people in the village of Egami returned to Catholicism in Meiji 14 (1881), and in the late Meiji period built a simple church. The present-day Egami Cathedral was erected in 1918. If you stroll through the Egami district, you can see the status of the settlement of Tanisako Topography [Tanisako Chikei], which is a typical example of a migration site, and the quiet setting of the Egami Cathedral, which is a representative example of a wooden church adapted to it.