Hotel Nanpurou Shimabara

As the only point of contact with the West for over 200 years, there`s a sense of history in Nagasaki.

I love walking along the water front (I confess, give me a port anywhere and I`m happy), and thinking how it was through these ...

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 ...

... Nachtrag. Also in der minshuku tanpopo war es ganz witzig. Vor allem weil dieser Superstar Fukuyama noch ein Konzert gegeben hat. Die Pension voller Groupies. Die Besitzerin meinte als wir vom Abendspaziergang gekommen sind, wir können jetzt die nächste 30 Min. ein Bad nehmen...Gut wir schnell runter, ich ins Damenbad, andi bei den Herren. Da hör ich auf einmal jemanden kommen (nachdem ich mich gewaschen hab und im Bad sitz)... eine Männliche Stimme und eine weibliche (die der ...

... wurden dann gleich beim 2. Versuch fündig leider nur für eine Nacht. Morgen ziehen wir dann ins Minshuku tanpopo (minshuku sind eine art Pension..also Familienbetrieb). Das ganze Hotel ist voll weiblicher Fans ich sags euch und wir wussten erst nicht was los ist am Bahnhof. Wir konnten zuerst nichtmal einen Sitzplatz von Sendai aus reservieren, dann ist der vom Ticketschalter extra runtergerannt und hat uns doch noch tickets gebracht ...

... however, was food. For our last real meal in Japan we chose a somewhat classy restaurant right by the ocean. I had fried river eel. And it was wonderful. Beyond wonderful. Unfortunately it was also expensive and I am coasting into the finish line on fumes, moneywise.
We left the restaurant and went to the last temple of our trip ...

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.

Vanmorgen hebben we een cadeautje gekregen toen we de Ryokan verlieten. (hadden wij ook iets mee moeten brengen als bedankje voor het logeren????) Rond de middag zijn we aangekomen in Kumamoto (de klemtoon bij Japanse steden licht op de twee-na-laatste lettergreep KuMAmoto dus, zo hebben wij zelf bedacht). Het is hier zeker 30 graden, wat onze reisproductiviteit niet ten goede komt. Toch zijn er een ...

... said she is allways like this....so sad we finally got off after all that drama!!!!!nagasaki was where the atomic bomb was dropped on the 9th august 1945 at 11.02am total of 73,884 were either killed or injured and 74,809 dead very interesting musuem...lots of information about the consquences...saw plenty of cherry blossoms and phillip had a rose shaped sorbet in a cone for 100yen.we sat and took the ...

... traders arrived in 1500s there was much interest in western technologies, but foreign-ness & Christianity were viewed as threats and, coupled with good ol' fashioned xenophobia, Japan fearfully slammed its doors. In 1597, 6 Spanish friars and 20 Japanese (some were teenage boys) were crucified here if you doubt the power of fear-of-other... Penalty of death for any Japanese who traveled abroad, and the Dutch (who were viewed as being more motivated ...