Xavier Park, the place where the first Christian missionary comes to Kagoshima

Next we were going to Xavier Park in Kagoshima. Although we went to Kagoshima many times, but it's first time to visit there. The park was made in commemoration of 400 years of arrival by Francis Xavier who first came to Kagoshima for missionary work of Christianity in Japan.

A part of the church was left when I went to the park.

It seems that the Father Ragge who creates the first Japanese - French dictionary in the Meiji era and is a part of the old stone church that was built the Catholic church for the achievement of Xavier.  However, the church was completely burnt down in the last great war and is not left now.

There are other bronze statues in the park showing how Xavier was conducting missionary activities with Yajiro, the Shimazu warrior and Bernardo.

After that, we went into the St. Xavier's Cathedral Church on the opposite side of the park.

But we don't know where the entrance is. Then we met a guy on the first floor. He was so kind, he took us to the prayer's room. He also told us everything about history of Christianity in Kagoshima.