October 31 - Nagasaki

Visited other historical sites in Nagasaki.


This is called Spectacles Bridge in Japanese as looks like one.
It was built in 1684 by a Chinese monk who based it on a similar bridge in China.
There are a few of this stone bridges over this river but this is the only one which looks like a pair of spectacles.




There were a few of this kind of ice cream seller around the tourist areas.
Mostly the Japanese kids would buy the vanilla ice cream cones for 100Yen (CAD 1.2) each.


Doesn't it look like a pair of spectacles?


Again many koi fishes in the river.


This heron just can't decide which fish to catch as there were just too many fishes


This cat has a funny brown patch on his mouth.


An old Chinese temple.
It was reconstructed after the atomic bomb.


This is the Dejima museum.
Dejima island was an artificial island built by the Japanese during the Edo period (1641 - 1853) to isolate themselves from the outside world.
Any foreign ships that came to trade with Japan could only unload their goods there.


Dejima island had a fan shape.


This is a model of Dejima.


The Dejima museum was built directly over the actual Dejima island.
However, it is no longer an island due to land reclamation.
At the museum, they reconstructed many of the old European style buildings.










This is how trading might have looked like at Dejima.

October 30 - Nagasaki

Three days after the detonation of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, on August 9, 1945, at 11:02AM a second atomic bomb exploded over the city of Nagasaki.


Here is one of many monuments near the Peace Memorial.


There were many school children and as well, tourists, came to remember the victims of the atomic bomb.


Many brought strings of colorful paper cranes which were used to symbolize peace.














A lone survivor of the bomb, the pine tree.





Urakami Cathedral was devastated during the bomb.
Here's it is rebuilt one.





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Cute little kids in the same scho0l attire.


The hut of Dr. Takashi Nagai where he lived when he suffered the radiation sickness.
Eventhough he was dying, he still looked after the other victims.






Peace park.




The remains of a prison.




A number of countries placed their own peace memorials in the park.
There was one given from a city in the USA but I didn't see one from Canada.










The fountains are like the wings of a dove.


Memorial to the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan


Nagasaki National Museum.


That's a replica of an old Japanese toilet.
Only the rich and powerful people could afford that.


In those days, all imported goods had to be inspected.