Moopon

1. Once visitors exit immigration and customs at Kansai Airport, visitors will be on the 1st floor. Follow the signs for “Railways”, taking one of the 4 escalators or 3 elevators to arrive at the 2nd floor.

2. Once on the 2nd floor, follow the signs to one of several walkways and walk across the road to Kansai-airport Station. Visitors need to exit the air terminal building to arrive at the JR Station (two separate buildings connected by a walkway). Two train companies use Kansai-airport Station: JR (blue/green) and Nankai (orange). Only JR can take visitor to the platform Haruka departing from. DO NOT use Nankai.

3. Before entering tickets gate, find JR Ticket Office where visitors can purchase ticket or reserved ticket for JR train.(there is a huge sign in English above their head).JR ticket office staff may or may not speak English, but they can read place names and train types written in the Roman alphabet. 

4. With one’s tickets, go through JR ticket gate and take an escalator to get to Platform 4.

Dejima was a manmade island in the port of Nagasak. The island was constructed in 1636 to segregate Portuguese residents from the Japanese population and control their missionary activities. It is called Sakoku(鎖国), the foreign relations policy.

Three years later, the Portuguese were expelled from Japan, and a Dutch trading factory, formerly located in Hirado, was moved to Dejima. The Dutch workers, the only remaining Westerners allowed in the country, were limited to Dejima during Japan's two centuries of isolation.

Today, Dejima is not an island anymore, as the surrounding area has been filled up during the 20th century. However, many Dejima's historical structures remain, have been or are being reconstructed in the area, including various residences, walls, warehouses and gates.

Works to restore Dejima to its original state were started in 1996 and are currently on-going. The ultimate aim is to convert Dejima back into an island by digging canals around all its four sides.

Hours: 8:00 to 18:00 (last entry until 17:40)
Closed: No closing days.
Admission:500 yen
Access Information:
From Nagasaki Ekimae tram station take tram number s 1 to "Dejima" tram stop.  Tram is very useful in Nagasaki city. English pamphlet is available on the Internet.