Dutch Slope

nice history unfold

good place to start exploring the old glory of the city and it open window to the world. Good signs and explanation boards.

Hillside where the Dutch lived

Even if you don't pay the entrance fee to enter one of the houses, you can walk in this area for free. The actual slope is kind of steep and paved with stone. The homes themselves are not too intere...

Some interesting reminders of Nagasaki's past

A short walk will take you around a number of old homes that go back to the period of European contact.

Oranda Zaka

This stone paved street was pleasant area of Nagasaki where Westerners, predominately Dutch Merchants lived in the second half of the 19th century. Worth a stroll through a street of Western houses an...

Dutch slope because Dutch referred to everything Western for a while.

The Dutch Slope is a stone-paved street leading up a hillside in Nagasaki where many foreign traders resided after the opening of the city's port to foreign trade in 1859. Because the Dutch were the o...