{"id":290742,"date":"2026-07-25T17:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e5%a4%a9%e8%8d%89%e3%81%ae%e5%b4%8e%e6%b4%a5%e9%9b%86%e8%90%bd\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:44:56","slug":"%e5%a4%a9%e8%8d%89%e3%81%ae%e5%b4%8e%e6%b4%a5%e9%9b%86%e8%90%bd","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/290742\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakitsu Village in Amakusa"},"content":{"rendered":"


\"Saizu Settlement of Amakusa\" at World Cultural Heritage
Amakusa City<\/p>\n

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Sakitsu, located in the south-western part of Shimoshima in the Amakusa Islands. Buddhism, Shinto, and Christianity coexisted during the Christian Prohibition period, and as a settlement that fostered a unique form of faith in a fishing village, it became a constituent asset of the World Cultural Heritage \"Hidden Christian-related Heritage of Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region\". During the Warring States period, most of the villagers were Christians, and after the early Edo period, they secretly continued their faith while ostensibly belonging to temples and shrines. More than 5000 people were caught in Sakitsu, Imatomi, Oe and Takahama at the end of the Tokugawa period, where they were released due to their large number and the destruction of the spirit of trust, but after the lifting of the ban in the Meiji period, many people returned to Catholicism. It is now centered on Sakitsu Church, where the site of the shoya-kaku house and the Suwa Shrine remain, and the singular fishing village landscape, such as the Kake (work hall) and the Touya (alley), has been selected as an important cultural landscape of the country as \"the cultural landscape of Sakitsu and Imatomi in Amakusa City\". * Sakitsu's \"Saki\" character is officially Yamaki.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":220742,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290742","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\/290742","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\/290742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}