Hotel Jal City Nagasaki

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 steak. The claim that it is "fork tender" is absolutely no ...

... where you actually got to select your fish of choice from a large pool in teh centre of the room! (A bit like that steak episode in the simpsons). While it turned out that the lunch set didn't give you the luxury of playing caesar and deciding who dies, this did make you feel less guilty as you sat at the bar, eating a great selection of fish related foods, and staring at the fish as they swam about leisurely.

After lunch Belinda and I were ...

Day 12 – Nagasaki

Some may say I was on a bomb tour heading to Nagasaki the second (following Hiroshima) city to be bombed by an atomic bomb. Similar to Hiroshima the main area had a peace park and museum. I did the walk around the park and visited the museum which had a few different exhibits to Hiroshima but on the whole fairly similar. For lunch that day on my walk around the place I saw this restaurant that looked relatively interesting and quite ...

... besitzerin die nicht weiß das ich da bin) nähern sich mir. Ich seh die Schatten hinter den Glasschiebetüren und schrei laut Suuuumimaaasen.... ein Ah kommt zurück und sie drehen wieder ab... naja... glück gehabt, sonst hätte es geändet wie in einen schlechten Anime....

Hab mir Vans Schuhe gekauft und zwei T-shirts bei uniqlo (hurraaaa ausverkauf in japan!!) außerdem noch ein Kapuzenshirt mit pilzen drauf ^_°
Sind dann am 31. August weitergefahen nach Fukuoka...

... schnell sumimasen (sie: gomen nasai) und Tür zu!! Die Sache war scheinbar mir peinlicher als ihr... Ich hab dann bei einer anderen gesehen das das occupied zeichen nach einer zeit ausgeht und die Schlösser sind scheinbar nur so alibi-halber angebracht, die kann man scheinbar auch so öffnen...
Na Klasse bin dann am Klo gesessen mit einer Hand am Schloss ^_____^.
DORAMAS sind manchmal doch war, wenn ich da an "Hana yori dango" denk ...

Nagasaki

Went to Nagasaki for a day trip while
in Fukuoka. As a result of all the late nights, I did get to Nagasaki
late and did a quick rush of the sights. I have now done my A-bomb
check list of Japan. Nagasaki is a pretty place. Will need o return
and spend more time here one day in the future.

... Stanley Kubrick's 2001 monolith) marks the exact point where the bomb exploded. Next to that is the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum . It is an exellent modern museum with live footage of the blast, exhibitions on the destruction and loss of human life, including a mangled wall clock stuck at 11:02. At the end of the route there were two films, one of which goes through the years post-1945 clocking up how many nuclear bomb tests there have been since and by ...

... of seats facing other seats in the entire wagon. As you can see from the picture, there isn't a table between the seats as there would be back home, there was barely room to sit two across from each other, we were knocking knees for the first 20 minutes, luckily a few people got of on the first stop so I could move seats and eat my food. Found the hostel easily enough, but I think I might have made a mistake in booking this one. Sure it is cheap and central, but ...

... war in the 1940s, the Allies' decision to use a new technology was made without a crystal ball into the future. Einstein & Szilard wrote to Roosevelt urging Manhattan project for fear of Germany developing it first. I think the key question for us now, living in our now, is how do we proceed? These museums do an only ok job of mentioning Japanese aggression in the 30s & 40s. To its credit, Hiroshima museum mentions Nanking massacre and invasions of ...

... and unbiased way. We spent a good couple of hours there...and then a couple more waiting for the rain to stop, which it didn't so we braved it and went to the peace park anyway. Nagasaki itself is one of the more picaresque cities we've been to in Japan, but thats a relative statement. Architectural beauty does not seen to ...