Great Japanese Railway Journeys
Yame to Nagasaki
Season 1 Episode 8 of 15
Michael Portillo visits a Kyushu tea farm where morning fog shades the tea plants. He then takes one of the newest Shinkansen lines to Nagasaki, the only port open to foreign trade when Japan was closed to the outside world for more than 200 years. Michael learns of the Scottish industrialist Thomas Glover, who helped samurai clans overthrow the shogun and played a pivotal role in Japan's industrialisation
Great Japanese Railway Journeys airs on BBC Two England at 7:30 AM, Wednesday 1 July. (Subtitles, repeat, sign language, audio description.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Tourism ➝ Travel
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Dave Minchin
Director
John Comerford
Executive Producer
Alison Kreps
Executive Producer