[Kyushu Holiday] Witness the history of Nagasaki
My Fukuoka holiday post continues! After a simple breakfast, we left for Nagasaki! We took the Shinkansen train from Hakata Station by utilizing our pre-paid passes, and the train journey took about 3 hours. Nagasaki is a port city on the island of Kyushu and is the Capital of Nagasaki Prefecture. It is one of Japan's closest port cities to the Asian Mainland which played an important role in foreign trade relations. However, as most people will surely know, Nagasaki is the site of one of the atomic bombings that occurred near the end of WWII. Upon reaching Nagasaki, we purchased one-day tram passes for 500 yen each, and this allowed us to explore the town with unlimited rides within a day. The first place we visited was the Nagasaki Peace Park, and the biggest feature of this park was The Peace Statue. It was dedicated as an appeal to lasting world peace, as well as a prayer and message to the world that such...