About this event
Set in Kitaarima-cho, Minamishimabara City—home to the Arima Seminario, Japan's first Jesuit secondary education institution founded approximately 400 years ago during the Sengoku period—this Christmas event recreates the atmosphere of that era. Visitors can experience what feels like traveling back in time to the period when four young boys were dispatched to Europe as the Tensho Embassy. Highlights include recreations of contemporary Nanban cuisine and a spectacular Nanban procession of about 200 people dressed in Nanban attire moving forward as a choir sings Gregorian chants. The "Giant Christmas Tree" adorned on a 30-meter-tall standing tree is also a must-see attraction.
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Minamishimabara City Arima Elementary School
Tei-52 Kitaarima-cho, Minamishimabara, Nagasaki 859-2304
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