Glover Garden

In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western-style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.

This type of architecture closely resembles one-story bungalows used by foreigners in Hong Kong or Shanghai and imported to Japan by British traders.

Rather than following contemporary Victorian styles, this type of building more closely reflects the Georgian aesthetic popular in Britain during the previous generation.

The correct treatment of the Tuscan pillars and pediment at the Alt House suggest that this building was designed by a Western architect.

Today, the graves of several former Freemasons can be found in Nagasaki' s international cemeteries, and the stone gate of the former lodge is preserved in Glover Garden.

Glover House known as Ipponmatsu (Single Pine Tree) from a drawing of 1863. The tree was chopped down in the early 20th century.
Koi pond in front of the Glover residence
Overlooking Nagasaki harbor
The garden
Former Mitsubishi second dock house in Glover Garden