Pilgrimage route
Fly or take the ferry from Nagasaki to Fukue and island-hop by boat and car. These are some of the most moving places in Japan, and among the hardest to reach.
1Start at Fukue with the first post-ban church.
2Ferry to Hisaka and the old Gorin Church.
3Naru Island's painted wooden church.
4Kamigoto's stone church (by arrangement).
5Ojika and the abandoned island of Nozaki (advance notice).