Chokei Hotel Nagasaki

10-26 Hirano-machi Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Kyushu-Okinawa, 852-8117, Japan

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Fat Man

A travel blog entry by daryljapan

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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

A travel blog entry by misocutlet

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... 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

A travel blog entry by bornes

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... 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

A travel blog entry by tobyh

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... 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

A travel blog entry by bornes

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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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