Day 1: Nagasaki Peace Park, Atomic Bomb Museum. Not much to say. Very sad. There were two peace parks; very important to visit both.
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| Delicious eki-ben |
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| Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum |
Day 2:
Nagasaki City Science Museum. It's very small and catered to children. We enjoyed a half-hour show about Mosasaurus. It was dramatic, full of emotions. One thing I need to complain, though. Nagasaki boasted itself as the only window to the outside world when Japan was an isolated country. So it had lots of interaction with foreigners for hundreds of years. Before entering the museum, it has pictures of European scientists that were connected to Nagasaki. Upon entering the museum, there was not one word of English, or Dutch, or Portuguese, or Chinese in this science museum. Its website does not have a foreign language page, either. What happened to Nagasaki's connection to the rest of the world? Shouldn't it pride itself as an international city?
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| 長崎市科学館 |
Day 3: shopping malls. Too hot. We visited Nagasaki during the rainy season; everyone pre-warned us that we would get rained on. We only got rained on in the peace park for about five minutes. After that, the sun came out and actively burned the humidity in the air. It was so hot. I got heat stroke and couldn't breathe. So we stayed indoors. There were more things to see in Nagasaki, but they were outdoors. We just couldn't bring ourselves into the sun.
On our way back, here was our flight number. What an ominous sign. Something bad will happen.
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| Flight No. 666 |
