{"id":149476,"date":"2025-06-01T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e3%82%ab%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e4%b8%ad%e7%94%ba%e6%95%99%e4%bc%9a%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e5%8d%81%e5%85%ad%e8%81%96%e4%ba%ba%e6%95%99%e4%bc%9a\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:19:07","slug":"%e3%82%ab%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e4%b8%ad%e7%94%ba%e6%95%99%e4%bc%9a%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e5%8d%81%e5%85%ad%e8%81%96%e4%ba%ba%e6%95%99%e4%bc%9a","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/149476\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Nakamachi Church (Japanese Sixteen Saints Church)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The information provided reflects the details available at the time of the survey.<br \/>Please note that facility details may change due to the facility\u2019s circumstances, so please check for the latest information before visiting.\nThis content has been translated using machine translation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Information provided by: JTB Publishing<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This content uses automatic translation services. Automatic translations may not always be accurate.<br \/>Please note that the translated content may differ from the original meaning. We ask for your understanding when using this content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its official name is \"Church of the Sixteen Saints of Japan\". It is an old church with a history of about 120 years after Oura Cathedral. It was erected as the \"Nishinakamachi Church\" in the year of Meiji 29 (1896) on the site of the Omura Domain Kurashiki in connection with the Christian daimy\u014d Omura Junchu. Initially, it was a Romanesque-style cathedral with a large spire as a symbol, but only the spire and the side wall were bombed in 1945. The present cathedral was rebuilt in 1951 as a reinforced concrete chalk church with the foundation stone and brick exterior with donations from all over the world. Two towers are added to both sides of the central spire, and the ceiling is a cylindrical vault. The cross at the center of the altar is a replica of the \"cross of the smile\" related to Francisco Xavier at Xavier Castle in the Basque Country of Spain. Stained glass depicting the life of Christ is also beautiful and impressive. On the site is the \"Monument to Saint Thomas West and 15 Martyrs (Sixteen Saints of Nagasaki)\", from which the church name is derived.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20583,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149476","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spot"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/149476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/149476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}