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Fresh kamaboko direct sales shops are lined up along the Kawauchi-cho coast. You can get a chewy kamaboko that is wrapped in a mess like a nostalgic snoop from 110 yen per bottle. It is made with an old-fashioned original method of steaming using fried meat such as jago with a unique umami taste, horse mackerel and eso. Every shop is handmade by family members, and a local shipment by Yu-Pak is also available at the nearby post office.

It is a warm wood-style facility with a year-round pool. In addition to an indoor pool and a gourd pool for toddlers, there is a waterslide, a three-lane straight slider, a running water pool and a toddler pool outside.

The sandy beach, which has become the site of the Kiri-shitan crackdown, is now a coast packed with many bathers, and has also been selected as the one for Japan's 100-year-old pleasure-bathing places. The white sandy beach lasts about 1km, and the beautiful cobalt blue sea is exactly Hirado's representative swimming beach.

Western-style equestrian club in Senriigahama. The course is set according to the level from beginner to advanced person. There is also a beach course where you can enjoy riding on the sandy beach while being blown by the sea breeze. Horseback riding is reserved priority. After horseback riding, you can enjoy the Hirado beef steak course 3300 yen and barbecue 3300 yen, and you can eat outdoors on a good day.

One of the constituent assets of the World Cultural Heritage "Hidden Kirishitan-Related Heritage of Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region", registered along with "Akusa no Sakitsu Settlement" in Kumamoto Prefecture, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, "Totsu no Dezu Settlement" and "Totai no Ono Settlement". Located in the northwestern part of Hirado Island, where the island of Ikutsuki is close, Kasuga is a settlement with a stunning landscape of Mount Anman behind it and the beautifully spread terraced rice fields. After the introduction of Christianity on the island of Hirado by Francisco Xavier in Astronomy 19 (1550), the people of the people also converted at once, as the lord of Kasuga, Mr. Kote-da, converted. The subjugated Christian, who continued his faith systematically and secretly during the Forbidden period, worshipped nature such as ancient Shinto and Buddha, mountains, and rivers, as well as worshiping Nakaenoshima off the coast of the Christian Martyrdom and practiced the Christian faith. Many people continued to keep their faith after the removal of the religion during the Meiji period, but in recent years organized faith has disappeared. At present, the religious elements of the Christian faith are carefully protected. Please refer to the local information board for tour route and travel time.

A settlement registered as the "Holy Land and Settlement of Hirado (Kasuga Settlement and Mount Anmandake)" of the World Cultural Heritage "Hidden Christian Related Heritage of the Nagasaki and Amakusa Regions". Located on the western shore of Hirado Island, it extends between the ridges of Mount Anman. Tanada, which is also one of the "Cultural Landscapes of Hirado Island", is a stunning national selection. In the transmission of Christianity on Hirado Island by Francisco Xavier in Astronomy 19 (1550), the vassal of the Hirado-Matsuura clan, Mr. Kote-da, was converted. The citizens of Kasuga, who had been a fief, also converted to Christianity. Mr. Matsuura banned Christianity, and the Edo Shogunate issued a ban. In this area, the leaders of the Christian community "gumi" are the center, and while they also have the same faith of nature worship such as ancient Shinto and Buddha, mountains, and rivers, they also worship Nakaenoshima off the coast of the Christian martyrdom and practice their Christian faith. Although many people maintained their insidious-era faith even after the depredation, organized functions have been cut off in recent years. The settlement is dotted with Maruo Mountain, where the Christian tombs were excavated, stone shrines, the ruins of the cemetery, and houses with Natogami, a sacred instrument of hidden Christians. If you walk along the village road in the terraced rice field, you can enjoy the deep history and the scenery of the Nong Fishing Village. Please refer to the local information board for tour route and travel time.

The information desk of the "Kasuga Settlement", one of the constituent assets of the "Hidden Christian Related Heritage of Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region" World Cultural Heritage. "Katarina" in the name of the institution also means the dialect of "joining the activities" to the concept of "interaction through telling". The facility, which was built by renovating an empty house in the village of Kasuga, consists of a main house and a retirement room. The main house has an information center where townspeople are stationed, a stand that sells rice and world heritage goods picked in the terraced rice fields of Kasuga, there is an exhibition space to display such as Otenpensa and a festival piece called a bill, which was used by hidden Christians during the event. The retirement room is staffed by people from the Kasuga settlement as storytellers. You can listen to the village while receiving hospitality such as tea and handmade pickles. One electric-assisted bicycle, which is convenient for walking in terraced rice fields and villages where cars are difficult to pass, can be rented for four hours and 500 yen by telephone.

The historical history museum was based on the residence of the former feudal lord Matsuura, Tsurugamine. On a stone wall in the style of Momoyama, a long white fence is circling. It displays such cultural treasures as armots from the Kamakura period onwards, as well as furnishings, and Kanōyōyōbō-style paintings, as well as art works, and the Nanban trade. Note that there are cases where the published materials are not exhibited due to the preservation of materials. It takes 30 minutes.

Located in the Nekoshi district on the west coast of Hirado Island, a museum that displays the items of faith of "Kaku Kirishitan". Located south of the "Kasuga Settlement", one of the constituent assets of the World Cultural Heritage "Hidden Christian Related Heritage in Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region", Nekoshi Settlement is the same as the Kasuga Settlement, where the hidden Christian lived in the village of Kirishitan. Many of the exhibits speak of the depth of the religion, and the history of sad Christian repression, such as the god of the god who worshiped the god in the back of the door (storage room), and the ritual, step-on, and rosary, can be seen. In the area around the museum, there is also a mound called Orokuni-kun (Ushiwaki), which is related to the martyred kake Kirishitan.

A museum based on the extant residence of the 35th Hirado feudal lord, Hiroko Matsuura (the great grandfather of Emperor Meiji). This building is built by a sukiya based on a mountain villa in Sagano, Kyoto. The surrounding landscape, including the gardens, was designated a national great win. The museum displays works of the Hirado-yaki Nakano-yaki kiln, which was the source of the Mikawachi-yaki, as well as ancient documents.