After leaving my backpack at the hotel I took the tram back two stops to the Dejima Dutch Settlement. This is a collection of Dutch homes where the Europeans were restricted to. Entrance fee was 500Y ($6.25) and had a remarkable European feel to the homes. The houses were arranged along both sides in a street along the canal. They were two storey wood frame houses with a Dutch feel. The first house I went into was the Governers Mansion. This had elaborate rooms on the second floor continuing into the connecting buildings which I thought were separate homes. They had chandeliers and colonial style european furniture. There were various styles of room from private quarters to a large banqueting room. Further along other houses were a museum of maritime exploration and some european ceramics that had been brought over for everyday use. Another home had a more Japanese style to the interior. It was a nice asian style showing the contrasting choices the owners had made. There were also some costume characters in one of the houses which was a grainery museum. There were two large houses standing by themselves the end away from the residential street. The first painted green had been converted to a restaurant on the ground floor. At first I thought that was only as far as you could go but I saw signs to go upstairs and to a back room. It had a grand wood staircase and doorframes and led to private quarters upstairs. . The other house was just used as a gift shop and washrooms. Finally there was a miniature version of the settlement in the garden at the end. It was very interesting and refreshing to see all this european heritage as Nagasaki is only really known to westerners as the site of the atomic bomb. My afternoon would be spent exploring more european heritage.