Goto Islands
Atlas / Goto Islands
A quiet island where Hidden Christian migrants farmed alongside Buddhist neighbours, and suffered in 1868.
Christians who moved to Hisaka in the late 18th century lived as tenant farmers. After they declared their faith they were imprisoned in 1868 in a tiny cell where many died, an episode remembered as the Goto persecution. The old Gorin Church, Goto's oldest wooden church, was moved here. Hisaka is a UNESCO component.
