Chokei Hotel Nagasaki
10-26 Hirano-machi Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Kyushu-Okinawa, 852-8117, Japan
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Fat Man
Our Road Scholar group visited the Peace Park and Atom Bomb museum as well as Glover Gardens and Oura Catholic Church.
On August 9, 1945 at 11:02am the US dropped Fat Man and atomic bomb that exploded 500 meters above Nagasaki killing 150,000 people. It is still foremost in their memory and now in mine.
A peaceful and kind place to visit. We were greeted with open ...
Mt. Unzendake
... in a small information centre next to the site. I had another place to go after the geothermal site and it was a seaside hot spring of Obama Onsen, but I didn't feel like take an outdoor bath under the bad weather condition. So I was determined to take a hot spring at Shinyu Public Bathhouse of Unzen. The admission fee was only JPY 100 and there was only a large bathtub in the bathroom. Strangely, the bathtub was too deep to sit on the bottom.
Unzen was ...
Huis Ten Bosch
... atmosphere and had I brought a partner, it probably would've been a great experience. But considering I just went with a male friend, and we're not gay, it made the whole thing a little awkward (However queerfolk don't worry-- japanese are totally okay with gay couples coming here; we were treated no differently).
At the end of the day, they have a light parade similar to disneyworld's, but on a much smaller scale.
All in ...
Nagasaki
... five minutes from the main station.
Today it has rained all day. I don’t like rain. Took the tram up to the Peace Park and briefly braved the rain to see the Peace Statue and Fountain, and a few of the sculptures donated by some other countries, each with a plaque professing an end to all wars and everlasting peace. Rather ironic considering there are two ongoing major wars in the world, and we ...
Halloween on Xmas
My friends and I decided to go costuming for christmas. We did a bar crawl like that. Japanese people are actually very okay with this, and enjoyed it.
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