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A park on a small hill with a good view, leading into the precincts of Suwa Shrine. In a grove of trees such as giant camphor trees, there are many statues of the great man of Yukari Nagasaki, such as the patronage of the picture, Ueno Hikoma, and the patronage of the printing art, Masazuki Motoki. At the entrance of the park, there is also a pillar of Japan's first canning site.

Located 1km east of Nagasaki Station, the park is home to an observation deck, a multi-purpose square, and a amusement square. In the spring, you can enjoy about 700 Yoshino cherry trees and Yamazakura flowers.

The park, which sits on the top of Mount Foutou overlooking the city of Nagasaki, is well known for its standing of a bronze statue of Ryoma Sakamoto and a monument to Ryotaro Sima, and is visited by many fans each of them every year. In addition, this park is also famous in Nagasaki as a place to enjoy a "kreken kite" by raising a kite called "grouper". The battle to cut the thread of the opponent by teasing each other in the air, a kite with a colorful and bold design is brave and beautiful.

Ueno Hikoma, who opened a photography studio in Nagasaki and is also known for taking photographs of Ryoma Sakamoto and other Shishi from the end of the Tokugawa period; it is built at the top of the Kōdai-ji tomb area, a bodhi-ji temple, alongside his father's grave.

Known as the path walked by Ryoma Sakamoto and his comrades, the slope is maintained as the Nagasaki Historical Exploration Road. It is a slender slope of about 500m with stone steps from the area between Shenzhen Temple and Zenrinji on Teramachi Street, through the ruins of Kameyama Shrine to Fudo Park. You can follow the information board to the site of "Kameyama-shachunaka", which has become the Kameyama-shachunaka Memorial Hall in Nagasaki City, in about six minutes. Information boards and signposts along the way are well maintained, and the view of the city of Nagasaki is good from the statue of Ryūma near the memorial hall.

Nakadori Shopping Street is the oldest shopping street in Nagasaki that has been around since the mid-Edo period. It is actually a long-established store that seems to be an ordinary shop. There are about 130 shops on a street that stretches for about 400m, including long-established confectionery, general merchandise, antiques, greengrocers and fashion.

It is located on the opposite bank of Mount Inasa, across the port of Nagasaki, where the light-up of the "Megami Daibashi", also nicknamed the Venus Wing, is seen.

The site where the first Western restaurant in Japan opened its doors in 1863; later moved to Ma-machi, Nagasaki; the building is now relocated to Glover Garden as "Old Jijeitei".

Kiminoji Saionji, a scholar of the Ritsumeikan University who served as a minister, minister of education, and prime minister, had been a temporary residence during his stay in Nagasaki to study French around 1870. His stay was about seven months.

A stone monument stands on Kameyama Street, near the Kameyama-shanaka Memorial Hall in Nagasaki, at the site of Kameyama-shashinaka. In the 4th year of culture (1807), the Kameyama ware kiln was opened with the main focus of Jingohei Ogami. It had mainly baked water bottles ordered by the Netherlands, but due to the decrease in the arrival of Dutch ships, it began to produce white-porcelain dyeing, and eventually closed kilns in the first year of the Gyeongsang (1865). It is said that Ryoma patronized a teacup of Kameyama ware with the same dragon drawn as his first name, and established Kameyama Shahong on this kiln site. At present, parts of the kiln remains have been confirmed, with information boards on the side of the stone monument, and an exhibition shelf on the outer wall at the Irabinhei community hall in Soba to display works by Kameyama ware.