Dutch Slope & Higashi-Yamate Western Houses
オランダ坂・東山手洋風住宅群
A stone-paved slope in Higashiyamate, lined with Meiji-era foreign residences and mission schools. It is the representative Western-style streetscape of Nagasaki.
After the port opened, Nagasaki people collectively called Westerners 'Dutchmen,' so the slope through their residential area became known as Dutch Slope. The stone-paved slope runs east from below Kwassui Women's University toward Higashiyamate. Along the way are the Higashiyamate No. 12 mansion, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property that was formerly the Russian consulate and is free to visit, and the Higashiyamate Western-style houses. These are seven mid-Meiji rental villas, now housing the Old Photograph Museum, the Buried Materials Museum and cafés, some of which charge about 100 yen. The slope is free and open all day. You can walk it from the Glover Garden exit and connect to the Confucius Shrine and Oura Cathedral. Getting there: take the streetcar to the Ishibashi or Shimin Byōin-mae stop, then walk about 5 minutes.
Opening hours
Slope open all day; Western-style residences approx. 09:00–17:00, closed Mon
Nearby sights
- Nagasaki Confucius Shrine
- Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum & Mizubenomori Park
- Tojin Yashiki Site
- Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown
- Dejima
- Oura Church
- Glover Garden
- Meganebashi Bridge