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Nagasaki Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nagasaki, Japan
Templed out!
This is a top pick! ... in a traditional Ryokan complete with an onsen for bathing which was a great experience. If anyone has ever been to Japan they will know there are certain rules involved when bathing in an Onsen, which is far too over complicated, but basically its ...
Sayonara Japan
This is a top pick! ... be a lot more scenic and a little bit warmer (in temperature, not hospitality!). So my first stop on the train was Nagasaki, the second place in Japan to be A-bombed by the Americans in the second world war just 3 days after Hiroshima was hit. The ...
Giggling...
This is a top pick! ... the city, stopping once to exchange pleasantries in English with a young boy who had been walking at my side along the street. I`d really enjoyed being in Nagasaki, and hoped that the rest of my journey around Kyushu would be just as ...
I am here!
I don:t have much time to write (or even to find the stupid apostrophe button on this wacked japanese keyboard) but I thought that I should let everyone know that I@made it here safe and sound with pink luggage accounted for! I meet my host family in ...
Oranda!
... we visited the Atomic bomb museum. On August 9, 1945 at 11.02 the 2nd atomic bomb fell here. It wasn't actually intended for Nagasaki, but the first target, Kokura was too cloudy, so they dropped 'fat boy' on Nagasaki instead. Like in Hiroshima, not much ...
Nagasaki (home of big thunder)
... glass windows and some religious murals, it was a bit odd walking in a Cathedral listening to organ music in Japan! Next we went to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb museum. This was a much more visual museum than Hiroshima's, but aside from the specifics it ...
Fukuoka, Classes, and pictures
... , I want to try to go back. The photographer was really good and laid back (Masami said he was famous in Nagasaki...but i think Masami:s understanding of *famous* and mine differ drastically), and all the awkwardness that went along with having to take ...
Kobe - Second Day
We arrived in Nagasaki at 0800 today (our Monday—your Sunday). We plan to visit ground zero where the A Bomb was dropped and go to the museum. After that we'll just play it by ear and look around. Kobe was great. I tasted my first Kobe beef ...
*I go without I meet you...*
... the scenic route to my destination. I:m really not sure what I was thinking when I decided to take an adventure through Nagasaki-maybe that being 5000 miles away and in a country that speaks a completely foreign language would allow my sense of ...
Nagasaki
... international trade. This museum showed how the reintroduction of international trading has shaped the culture of Japan as it is today. Obviously, to Westerners, Nagasaki is synonymous with the Atomic bomb and today I visited the key sites. The museum ...
The Day we came back home, in the wrong century
... was hearing left and right-- Hiroshima is internationally famed because of the bombing and loads of tourists came to see the museum there. Nagasaki however, seems to be quiet, quiet, quiet. Almost no tourists in the Peace Park or Museum, which I don't ...
Rotary Christmas Party
We all headed to Isahaya for a Rotary organized party for everyone. It was pretty fun but we had a schedule of things to do. They brought in a cooking teacher so we cooked meat loaf and made sushi and cut up fruit and did a bunch of random food ...
Sweet Nagasaki
... by a black marble sarcophagus and a column, with stone circles radiating from it. Nearby is another reminder of Nagasaki's history: a column from a Catholic cathedral. Andre Arend represented Anderson's group in donating the paper cranes we'd made the ...
Sports Day
... it.* He looked satisfied with my answer. Apparently, seeing a white person at a sports day is as rara as a pepperoni pizza in Japan (which I totally wish I had opted for rather than sushi on the plane ride over--what I wouldn:t give right now for a meal ...
On the move to Nagasaki
... that it matters to me). But today I had my first negative experience with JR (Japanese Rail), I reserved my seats for the trip to Nagasaki 3 days ago, and I got window seats a I wanted, somehow I sleep better in a train if I have a great view. I had ...
Picture shoot
Today was the photo shoot for the wedding advertisement. It lasted entirely too long and was full of awkward poses and head tilts. On the way to the site, Masami (the guy who coordinated all this) asked me what my father did as a profession. Knowing ...
it:s a small world after all
As I was walking home after getting off the bus this afternoon, I passed *the park* (it:s more the size of our front yard in Lubbock) and there were three girls chasing each other and an older man walking his dog. As I approached the park, the three ...
Nagasaki day 2
... more than once. Another day greeting school children. I visited the different Atomic Bomb sites in the northern part of Nagasaki today, including the Atomic-Bomb Museum, the Memorial Hall and the explosion hypocenter. There were many school classes on ...
Nagasaki : Kota Indo di Jepang
... mundur, Nagasaki jadi dibom. Menjelang akhir pesiar, pemandu mempersembahkan sebuah lagu accapella dengan penuh semangat tentang Nagasaki. Tepuk tangan pun menyambut selesainya lagu persembahan si pemandu dan feri pun merapat di pelabuhan yang berdekatan ...
Dag 6 peace park
... hebben we gezellig in de woonkamer onze kleding geshowd, nagels gelakt en geklaagd over de weinig mooie mannen hier in Nagasaki. Kortom een geslaagde meidenavond. Laten we het maar niet hebben over de klerenbende die we gemaakt hadden. We hadden zowaar ...
Sightseeing in Nagasaki
... be taking will should include a field trip with our english speaking prof). Later this afternoon, we went bowling (Nagasaki was the first to have a bowling alley in Japan). We had a good time. I would post pictures of all that went on today, but my ...
Merry Christmas Japan!
Christmas was a little different this year but it was still enjoyable because I got to spend it with my 'family' in Japan. That family is the gang of other exchange students. We stayed at Jamaica's place in Isahaya and had a great time celebrating! ...
West the pirate! ;)
We left Vale, and our heavy bags in Osaka and continued on down to Kyushu with just out light packs. Although light is relative when you have a tent in one of them! We caught the Shinkansen as far as Hakata, and then changed to an express train to take ...
The Day of our arrival at our last destination
... as well as Dutch influences! Like Hiroshima, not a sign of the bomb. Though less destructive than Hiroshima's bomb, Nagasaki's bomb (which fell 3 days after Hiroshima) missed it's target by several kilometers, in a mountainous area which shielded ...
Holiday
Today was a holiday. I:m not sure what for though. My school had a festival though full of music and food from around the world. Kana and Nana decided they were thirsty while we were there, so we all paid the 300 entrance fee into the Japanese tea ...
pictures
Not much has happened recently. The weekend was a bore as my host family was sick and so we did nothing. However, I have lots of pictures I thought I:d share. see photo album for ...
Nagasaki
... this morning (hungry - the ferry only had yen vending machines or overpriced restaurants...) and caught the train straight to Nagasaki. Hostel very nice, vast improvement over the last one. Visited the obligatory sights, saw the peace garden and visited ...
Nagasaki Temple Tour
... same price. My back was a bit sore today as well, but nothing like yesterday, so I guess it did help. Today I went around Nagasaki looking at mainly temples, there's not much to tell, the pictures says it all. Yesterday I sent a mail to Mr Yasumasa, ...
okunchi festival
... and all of this is done to drumming and singing. Okunchi was started 400 years ago when the government began to pay nagasaki citizens a huge sum of money to denounce christianity (a threat the portuguese brought with them). The amount of money was so ...