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British People who Helped in Japan's Modernization
Thomas Blake Glover was a Scottish merchant who started the trading company Glover and Co. in Nagasaki. He exported green tea and raw silk and imported steamships, warships and weapons. He built the first modern ship-repair facility incorporating steam engines in Japan and opened a Western-style coal mine that also incorporated steam engines. These and other endeavors of his greatly contributed to the rapid modernization of Japan from the end of the Edo Period to the Meiji Period.
The Glover House, the oldest Western-style wooden building in Japan, still stands in Glover Garden as part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution” registered in 2015.
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Glover Garden
This is an open-air museum on a site that once was home to the residences of Western people, such as such as Thomas Blake Glover, living in Nagasaki after the opening of the port there. It was created by relocating historical buildings that remained standing in Nagasaki city to the site.
Location: 8-1 Minamiyamatemachi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki
PH: 095-822-8223 (Glover Garden)
Website: Glover Garden
http://www.glover-garden.jp/english
Closed: Open year-round
Admission: 610 yen (adults), 300 yen (high school), 180 yen (elementary/junior high)
Transportation: Approx. 7 min walk from “Oura Cathedral” tram stop
Approx. 10 min from Kyushu Odan Expressway Nagasaki-Oita Line Nagasaki Interchange
Parking: Unavailable