Why is Nagasaki(Sasebo) Casino suitable as a candidate site?

There are three main merits to making a casino in Nagasaki in Nagasaki prefecture and Sasebo city with an aim to attracting casinos with IR resort facilities.

1. Attraction to Huis Ten Bosch

Firstly, it’s the attraction of Huis Ten Bosch.


Huis Ten Bosch is a European themed park and Holland’s cityscape (Amsterdam mainly) is especially duplicated with a trendy atmosphere and so it’s a popular entertainment land.



The property size is about 1.5 times that of Tokyo Disney Resort and the major tourism company H.I.S joined into the reconstruction from April, 2010 and it is now one of the leading theme parks along with Tokyo Disneyland and Osaka Universal Studios Japan. So, it is a great location to get tourists coming in from the world as the foundation part has already been carried out.

2. Perfect physiographic factor

Secondly, Nagasaki is in the Kyushu area.


The Casino Bill is regulating that casino facilities can be up to three places, so those three should not be too close and should be spread throughout Japan.



In that way, one of the IR candidate sites Wakayama is very close to Osaka geographically as it takes two hours from Wakayama to Osaka as a main popular spot, so that doesn’t help.


At the same time, Kyushu is geographically very close to China, Korea, North Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, so it is the perfect location as well as Dejima which flourished in the Edo era to get wealthy Asian people where European tourists may be attracted.



For those reasons, if the first candidate site for IR Osaka is decided as an attraction place, then it’s wrong to think that Nagasaki which is closer to Asia will have more possibility than Wakayama which is close to Osaka.

3. Agressive about IR attractions

Thirdly, Nagasaki put their hand up already in July 20, 2018.


Yokohama which is possibly a rival of Sasebo for casino attractions is still careful about the attraction based on the words of the mayor Fumiko Hayashi, so it’s been kept blank, so Nagasaki seems to be leading compared to Yokohama and Wakayama as of July, 2018.

When and where is Nagasaki Casino going to be made?

1. When is Nagasaki Casino going to be made?

As far as the work schedule for opening the casino resort, Japan’s first IR facility will be made between 2024 and 2025.

2. Where will Nagasaki(Sasebo) Casino be constructed?

The leading candidate site for IR is the European and Holland theme park (especially Amsterdam) Huis Ten Bosch(HTB) in Sasebo, Nagasaki and the construction is imagined to be world’s first in the sea along the Omura Bay where Huis Ten Bosch car park is (construction will be 200,000,000,000 yen). So, it seems that the concept for Nagasaki Casino will be about being by the sea for the IR facility will be by the sea.



Huis Ten Bosch is a theme park with a European atmosphere, so if there’s a place go to experience European attractions for those who love Europe among Japanese and wealthy Asians in Japan, then naturally they have enough factors to collect a lot of tourists.



In fact, Benetia (Italy) themed Venetian Macau in Macau and Paris themed Parisian are highly popular massive IR facilities for everyone from the young to the elderly and are suitable for people of any age and even family tourists, so Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Nagasaki is perfect as one of the candidate sites for the Casino IR facility.



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