Glover Sky Road is a unique, long escalator that brings guests to the top of Glover Garden along the slope of the hill. From the Sky Road, Nagasaki’s famous panoramic view can be viewed clearly.

Glover Garden is one of Nagasaki’s most interesting cultural treasures. The garden was built in 1863 for Scottish merchant Thomas Glover, who contributed greatly to Japan’s industrialization at the start of the Meiji period. It is an open air park that currently acts as a museum as well. The park is home to several mansions of both western and japanese architecture styles, built for various prominent industrialists of the time

Thomas Glover was hugely influential, and even played a role in overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate and ending the Edo period. He was responsible for introducing the Japanese to modern ship-building, mining, and even starting the first national brewery, Kirin Brewery.

Glover was a Scottish merchant in the end of Edo and early Meiji period (the end of 19th century to the early 20th century) in Japan. Glover supported factions in Satsuma (Kagoshima Prefecture) as well as Choshu (Yamaguchi Prefecture) by supplying them with arms, warships, and assisting them with overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate. Glover became a key figure in Japan’s Meiji restoration, helping lead them into the modern age of industrialization. He also developed Japan's first coal mine, founded Japan’s first national brewery, Kirin Brewery, and founded the shipbuilding company which was later to become the Mitsubishi Corporation.

Frederick Ringer was a British trader selling Japanese Green Tea to Europe. Ringer also founded a gas company, fishing company, power plant, hotel business, constructing waterways around the area.

William John Alt was a British trader exporting green tea from Nagasaki to America. Alt left the words, “Nagasaki is truly a beautiful city. I don't know anywhere more beautiful.”

Robert N Walker was a British ship captain who contributed to the Japanese shipping industry, especially Mitsubishi Corporation. Walker also founded Japan's first national soft drink company.

Oura Catholic Church is the only Western style building declared a National Treasure of Japan, and considered the country’s oldest church. It was originally named “Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan,” after the 26 christians who were executed by crucifixion in 1597 at Nagasaki's Nishizaka.

Since Japan was forced to open their port for international trade in 1854, more foreigners made their way to Nagasaki. Oura Catholic Church was built by French missionaries in 1864 for the growing community of foreign merchants in the city.

In 1865, shortly after the churches completion, a small group of christians from a nearby town asked the church’s preist if they could come in to see the Holy Mary. It was soon discovered that they, among tens of thousands of others from the surrounding area, were the descendants of christians from the 1600’s that had all been in hiding during the Edo period. This was considered a miracle by Pope Pius IX, and a bronze relief at the church depicts the memorable scene of this discovery.

Christian Museum is next to Oura Catholic Church. The museum consists of two buildings; the first one, “Former Latin Seminario” used to be a theological school. The second building is a “Former the Archbishop Hall of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese.”

The museum exhibits one hundred thirty items about the Christian history of the arrival of Christianity, a ban, persecution, hidden Christianity, and the rivival. One of the most famous painting is “Martyrdom of Genna” which is described about The Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki in 1622, and another one about Twenty-six St. Martyrdom in 1597. The movie, Silence directed by Martin Scorsese is based on the true story of Nagasaki's persecution.

What was once an island serving as a trade headquarters and residence for foreigners, has now been modified into a museum and replication of life from Japan’s isolation period. Walk the streets and imagine life as a dutch trader.

A sprawling and beautiful park adjacent to the wharf, view the ships coming in and out of the harbor and feel the breeze of the ocean on your way to Glover Garden