Shimabara-Hanto - Travel & Tourism Guide Shimabara-Hanto - Japon

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The road from Nagasaki to Kumamoto is beautiful, if you go through the peninsula and take the ferry from Shimabara to Misumi. The two sites to see are Unzen and Shimabara. The large volcanic massif of Unzen is full of surprises. It is by threading the road between the jigokus, a kind of boiling mud cauldrons that project burning materials into the air, that one can discover the charm of the islands and islets scattered in a sea of intense blue. This landscape of great beauty was the scene of a tragic episode of Christianity in the 17th century. In June 1991, Mount Unzen-dake erupted after two hundred years.