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Giggling...
... Cathedral and half of the gate that led to the Samo-jinja (referred to as the `one-legged torii`). In the larger Peace Park, one statue dominated proceedings, towering over everything else. The Peace Statue is symbolic in that the figure`s right hand ...
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Nagasaki (home of big thunder)
... Around 80,000 people were killed by the bomb and a third of the city was destroyed. We soon headed back out to the Peace Park which is close to the hypocentre of the explosion. It had a fountain there which sprayed water to look like wings and ...
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The Day we came back home, in the wrong century
... and tulips, it was really sweet! We rushed to our first destination after dropping our bags-- the Nagasaki Peace Park. The Nagasaki Peace Park seems to mirror what I was hearing left and right-- Hiroshima is internationally famed because of the bombing ...
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Sweet Nagasaki
Visited: Peace Park; Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum; Glover Garden; "Madame Butterfly" House Did: Tempura finally! On our tour through Nagasaki, our guide pulled out two Tupperware containers. "The Dutch people made a kind of cake called Castella. Perhaps ...
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Nagasaki : Kota Indo di Jepang
... Jepang. Soalnya, di tengah-tengah papan terdapat gambar patung gaya Yunani. Patung aslinya ada di Peace Park, episentrum ledakan bom atom di Nagasaki. Sejarah Nagasaki juga mencatat bahwa kurang lebih empat ratusan tahun silam St. Fransiskus Xaverius ...
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City of peace II
... atomic bomb. Fortunately for Kokura it was a cloudy day, unfortunately for Nagasaki it was clear. Heiwa-koen is the name of the Peace Park here. The fountain is meant to look like the wings of a dove, symbolizing peace. The park is near the epicenter ...
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I want to live in Nagasaki
... city. Not too big, great weather, and close to everything one could possibly need. The first thing we did was check out Peace Park. It was a beautiful day and we actually saw a double rainbow in the fountain. In the park there are numerous different ...
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Feudal Japan's window on the world
... modern, yet also leafy, attractive and quite affluent. The hilly center of the district is topped with the stirring Peace Park, dominated by the hulking and rather Socialist-Realist "Peace Statue," its right hand pointing toward the sky while its left ...
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Make Love not war
... , rebuilt their homes and businesses and churches, had sex and children and grandchildren. Life goes on. I made it to the Peace Park which is on a hill where a prison stood at the time of the bombing. The park was laid out in a ...
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Nagasaki
Caught the tram today to go to the Peace Park, followed by the Hypocentre (point of detonation for the second atomic bomb used in WWII), and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb museum. Pretty strong stuff as you can imagine, not aided by the return of the ...
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- Nagasaki Museum of Traditional Performing Arts.
- Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
- Spectacles Bridge (Meganebashi)
- Urakami Cathedral
- Nyokodo
- Hypocentre park
- One-legged Torii
- Nagasaki City Science Museum
- Nagasaki Folk History Museum
- 26 Martyrs Museum and Shrine
- Nishizaka Hill
- Suwa Shrine
- Nagasaki City Public Hall
- Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
- Chinatown
- Dejima
- Sofukuji Temple
- Glover Garden
- Higashi-yamate Preservation Center