Visit Nagasaki!

April 16, 2008 - 2:39 pm by jason in Food, Others  

I think I’ve found a new favourite city in Japan. Sapporo’s snow festival was great, Kyoto is beautiful, Tokyo is exciting and Yokohama has my favourite baseball team.

But Nagasaki seemed like a great place to live. There’s great food (though this is true of just about every city in Japan) - try the Saraudon for dinner in [...]

Guinness World Record `Torii (Shinto Shrine Gate)’ is in New Year fashion @ Chijiwa, Nagasaki

December 27, 2007 - 6:38 pm by akko@hakata in Culture, Others, Travel  

This is the world largest Torii (Shinto Shrine Gate), in Chijiwa of Nagasaki prefecture, East end of Kyushu, where Onsen (hot spring ), food, and nature is all so wonderful !

Torii gate is decorated in New Year celebration style.

This is the normal style :>

More information here (Japanese, but with many images)

Access

From Hakata Station (Fukuoka) , [...]

Obama Onsen, `Hottest Spring’ in Japan @Nagasaki, Kyushu

November 2, 2007 - 3:17 pm by akko@hakata in Others  

Several stations from Nagasaki Station (JR) by Shimabara Line, you’ll arrive at Unzen-Shimabara area.

Obama onsen (hotspring) near Unzen is `Sea side hotspring’ with the hottest hotspring of 100 degree centigrade, and plenty of hotspring, 15,000 tons of hotspring per day !

On the sea hotspring.

The best way to enjoy Obama Onsen is to stay Ryokan(Japanese inn) [...]

Try Pearl-Picking & 99-Islands Cruising @ West end of Japan!

September 12, 2007 - 5:10 pm by akko@hakata in Others, Travel  

At the west-end of Japan, you’ll have an amazingly beautiful and unique view of Kuju-ku-shima (Kuju-ku means 99 and shima means islands, but there’re actually 208 islands, including mere rocks!), which is called Saikai Pearl Sea Resort!

What you can do here is,

1. Pearl-picking

Choose one of the pearl oysters,
Carefully, pick up the pearl.

Now the [...]

Scenic Masterpiece of Kyushu 1, Itsukishima, Hirado

August 23, 2007 - 6:05 pm by izumi in Others, Travel  

Itsukishima is part of Hirato city, Nagasaki, and is placed in the west end of Kyushu island.  It takes four hours from Fukuoka city, but is absolutely beautiful. The reason why the sea is so blue and transparent is because this is not the place to swim. 

World Peace Praying Sites of Nagasaki; as one of the two A-bombed cities following Hiroshima & `White Light/Black Rain’

August 8, 2007 - 6:27 pm by akko@hakata in Travel  

August 9th is the special memorial day for Nagasaki, for it is one of the two A-bombed city in the world, following Hiroshima in 1945, at the end of WW2.

To remember the tragedy of war, to decide not to make that happen again, praying for the eternal world peace, there are two memorial parks, [...]

Nagasaki, Christmas cake of Kyushu

June 29, 2007 - 11:38 am by akko@hakata in Travel  

About Nagasaki

Nagasaki is the only Christian city in Japan, the only International city opened during National Isolation (Samurai Period), the only city having so many `first Western things’, the only city where locals play fireworks in cemeteries, and is one of the two cities experienced a-bomb.

Today Nagasaki is a simbol of world peace, with its [...]

Love Nagasaki Series; view, culture, castle, where to date, drink and shop

May 15, 2007 - 4:22 pm by akko@hakata in Travel  

Nagasaki is geographically very unique .
(Nagasaki means long cape. Naga=long, Saki=cape.)

1. It’s surrounded by sea and mountains.
2. It has very small land (I mean, it’s short of flat area.)

So many people live on mountains, which means there’re many houses (and glaves!) on there.

We can easily imagine that their lifestyle is far from being convinient.
I’d say, [...]

Dream Ryoma @ Kanko-maru, Nagasaki Hansen Festival

April 27, 2007 - 9:04 pm by akko@hakata in Travel  

Nagasaki Hansen Festival is being held at Nagasaki Port (Apr.26-30).

Out of seven big sailig ships on this show, I especially would like to focus on Kanko-maru, which is the simbol of Ryoma Sakamoto’s hope !

This is the replica of the sailing ship that Ryoma actually boarded.

What’s wonderful about this festival is that you can [...]

Greet Ryoma @ Kazagashira Park, Nagasaki

April 26, 2007 - 6:32 pm by akko@hakata in Travel  

About 20 minutes by bus from Nagasaki Station, Ryoma Sakamoto is standing on the hill of Kazagashira Park, overviewing Nagasaki Port (*).

It was actually the most dramatic moment of his life.

This is a statue of `Ryoma ga Yuku (Here Ryoma goes)’, a popular novel written by Ryotaro Shiba.

Here’s what is written;

When the ship [...]