Fukiya Unzen
320 Obamacho Unzen Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu-Okinawa, 854-0621, 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 ...
Kumamoto Layover
Short entry today, as I'm spending most of the day in transit. Left Hiroshima mid morning on the new Sakura shinkansen (bullet train), which basically extends now to the end of Kyushu in Kagoshima.
Entering Kyushu, I noticed a shift in demographics. For some reason my train car had a fair amount of Chinese (judging by the accent, probably from Taiwan). In addition, the station announcements were now four languages (Japanese, ...
Mt. Unzendake
... by a debris flow from a Mt. Unzen's eruption and some of them from the area were preserved and exhibited for an educational purpose. By the way, the largest earthquake Japan had ever experienced hit Tohoku Region last month. It is morally unacceptable to visit a disaster site out of mere curiosity. On the other hand, I can't deny my interest in the natural disaster effects and personally believe that it is meaningful to visit a disaster site to know how horrible ...
Huis Ten Bosch
... and/or ride. Huis Ten Bosch is pretty much exactly that. It has some amazing things to see, mostly random small niche-like museums and amusements, but most of them cost money.
Of what I saw, all attractions had a somewhat humorous and/or romance-related theme. The haunted houses were more or less "strategic" games (find this thing in here to release the ghost) and not very scary at all, but meant rather to mystify and entertain. It's a ...
On the rails to Kumamoto
... able to catch the train for Shin-Osaka with about 10 minutes to spare. At the platform yet another helpful elderly man asked me if I needed assistance. I've finally got the hang of the positioning of the trains along the track - if you have a reservation in say car 8 - where you need to stand is marked on the platform (and that saves doing what I've had to do in the past - ...



