Nagasaki’s Dejima, which is in textbooks of history is now filled its surroundings and connected by the land. “Dejima” in Nagasaki Prefecture is an artificial island created in 1636 for the policy of seclusion during the Edo period. The shape of an artificial island is a fan and the total area is about 1500㎡. This is about one-third the size of Tokyo Dome. The construction period was about 2 years and the total construction cost was about 400 million yen in terms of the monetary value as of today. The Edo Shogunate ordered merchants in Nagasaki to create this artificial land. There is an anecdote that when people asked about […]