TABIRA CATHEDRAL
Tabira Hiradoguchi Station is less than an hour and a half from Sasebo Station by Matsuura Railway. After getting off at Tabira Hiradoguchi Station, it takes about 15 minutes by rental bicycle. Tabira Cathedral is a red brick cathedral standing on a hill overlooking Hirado Seto Sea. After 1886, Christians in Kuroshima and Shizu moved to the area and built a church in 1918. It is said to be the compilation of Yosuke Tetsukawa's brick cathedrals. The style with an octagonal dome-shaped bell tower at the top is said to be unique to Japan and preferred by Tetsukawa. It is a representative example of church architecture designed and constructed by Japanese carpenters in the background of technology exchange, from the design and construction of Western missionaries until then.