Tsuruchan is the oldest coffee shop in Kyushu. The interior of the restaurant, which was founded in the Taisho era, has a retro and tasteful atmosphere. Nagasaki's local gourmet Turkish rice and the original Nagasaki-style milkshake, an edible milkshake created by the first owner, are especially popular! Please give it a try.

This is the main store of Fukusaya, an elegant building with white walls that you can see as you walk down Shianbashi Street. Castella, which has been cultivated over a long history dating back to 1624, is moist and soft with a rich egg flavor. This is a great item to buy for yourself as well as a souvenir!

This retro stone building with a strong presence is actually an active police box! The slightly dull, heavy stone walls and the stained glass at the entrance really catch your eye, and you can't help but want to take a photo. A police box that gives you a sense of the history typical of Nagasaki is worth a visit!

The lush Maruyama Park is located on the site of about 10 red-light districts during the late Edo period. In one corner of the park is a statue of Ryoma Sakamoto wearing boots, a pistol, and a pocket watch! Maruyama Town was a place where many great figures such as Ryoma Sakamoto and other patriots of the end of the Edo period and Siebold visited. Nowadays, it is a popular park where tourists and local people gather to relax.

Nagasaki Kenban handles the training of Geikos and arranges and supervises the tatami rooms. The eaves of this quaint building, which was once a red-light district, are lined with red lanterns with the names of geishas written on them.
Geishas (geikoshu) perform at long-established restaurants in Nagasaki, as well as at tourist events and other events. As the bearers of Nagasaki's traditional culture, they practice hard every day and show off their honed skills.
Sometimes you can hear the elegant sound of a shamisen coming from the building. If you're lucky, you might see geishas in kimono walking towards nearby restaurants in the evening.
*It is not possible to tour the inside. To invite geisha to your tatami room, please contact one of our affiliated restaurants in Nagasaki City.

Umezono Mikari Tenmangu Shrine is the guardian deity of Maruyama-cho, Nagasaki's red-light district. Founded in 1700 by Jiemon Yasuda, it has been affectionately known as ``Migawari Tenjin'' since ancient times, and has been loved as a spiritual haven for prostitutes and geishas.

The shrine grounds are full of unique lucky charms such as the ``Umezuka'', the ``Pasted Cow'' that prevents blurriness, and the ``Ebisu Stone'' that is said to make your smile beautiful. One of the most eye-catching is the ``Toothache Guardian Dog.'' It is said that if a person with a toothache puts starch syrup in the mouth of the guardian dog, it will act as a substitute and relieve the pain. It is packed full of candy.

This is where Maruyama's prostitute ``Chikugoya'' set up a teahouse in the mid-Edo period. It was also called ``Chiyo no Yado'' because the Chinese people living in Nagasaki at the time named it ``Senzaiwa''.

Naka no Chaya, which was popular along with Kagetsurou, was sometimes used as a resting area by the Nagasaki magistrate when they inspected the city. In the folk song ``Nagasaki Burabura Bushi,'' which was created at the end of the Edo period, it reads, ``If you want to go out for fun, go to Kagetsu or Naka no Chaya.'' It was a place where literary figures and artists from both Japan and abroad liked to hang out.

Aoyagi is a restaurant located in Maruyama, a red-light district that dates back to the Edo period and has been visited by various historical figures. The former restaurant, Sugimotoya, was built as an inn for entertainers to stay during the big festival of Umezono Tenmangu Shrine. Sculptor Seibo Kitamura, who created the Peace Statue, often visits the shrine, and you can see items related to Seibo.

Kagetsu began in 1818 when it was built as a teahouse in the garden of Hiketaya, a long-established restaurant in Nagasaki's Maruyama red-light district. In 1960, it was designated as a historic site in Nagasaki Prefecture, making it a rare historical restaurant in Japan.

There is the Dragon Room, where the scars of Ryoma Sakamoto's sword can be seen on the pillars, and the Harusame Room, which is Japan's first Western-style room that combines Japanese and Western style, with a tiled floor, Japanese-style coffered ceiling, and windows that incorporate Chinese style. It still retains its original appearance, including the ``Moon Room,'' which overlooks the Japanese garden that Kaishu Katsu loved.

Please enjoy Nagasaki's traditional cuisine ``Sippoku Ryori'' in the space where our ancestors spent their time, while looking at the beautiful garden built during the Genroku period.

On both sides of the street from the Shianbashi tram stop, a ``Shianbashi Ruins Monument'' has been erected, which is a reproduction of part of the bridge's railing. In the past, there was a Shianbashi Bridge, and it is said that during the red light district era, men would cross the bridge, pondering whether to go to the red light district or go back.

About 150m from Shianbashi Street, there is aStone monument at the ruins of Shikkiri Bridge"but. They stopped at Oshikiri Bridge, which was located in a place where they could see the entrance to the red light district, Daimon (double gate), and at this point, they decided to take the plunge and cross over to the red light district, hence the name Oshikiri Bridge. The fact that it is balanced with Shianbashi Bridge is very stylish.

"Mikariyanagi" stands quietly in the same place. The people who visited the red light district probably looked back here and regretted parting ways with Maruyama prostitutes. The name is so romantic that it brings to mind the scene of the time. The heartbreaking feelings of people who looked back at this willow, feeling like they were being dragged back, are still passed down to this day.