Picture postcard ca. 1910 depicting the Oura-Sagarimatsu Bund. The white building on the left is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Nagasaki Branch. The Nagasaki branch was closed in 1931. Acquired by Nagasaki Prefecture in 1940, the building was converted into a police station and later a museum. It is preserved today as a National Important Cultural Asset. The building on the right is the Nagasaki Hotel. Built in 1898 and heralded as one of the finest Western-style hotels in the Far East, the Nagasaki Hotel prospered at first but later suffered with the decline in visitors to Nagasaki in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 and the economic depression of the early 1920s and finally closed in 1924. The building was demolished soon after.
