Nagasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaki!

The day began on the 12th floor with breakfast from the Family Mart situated on the 1st floor. Yogurth, sandwich and juice. No rice this time!

A cute fire truck on the street. I should have put Rickard in front of it so you would have understood how small it really is.

Out walking narrow streets and walkways.

We then returned to Oura Catholic Church.

The church was built in 1865 by a French priest and was Japan's first in Gothic style. It immediately attracted "Hidden Christians" who came out for the first time in 200 years (Japanese were forbidden to practice the religion until 1872). We also returnet to the Glover Garden has a spectacular view over the bay... It would have been more spectacular in sunlight though, but at least it didn't snow or rain. The garden contains the earliest wooden Western-style buildings (dating from the latter 19th century).

I found my ship in one of the buildings...the Royal Caroline.

Apparently it is Nagasaki's most popular tourist attraction. We only had to share the park with a school class and some old people though. Oh, the park has the oldest asphaltroad in Japan...very important to know!

Asphalt road.

On our way to the station to leave our bags in a coin locker we passed the Meganebashi bridge over Nakashima-gawa River. It was built by a Chinese abbot in 1634 and is the oldest stone-arch bridge in Japan. The name means "Spectacles Bridge" and if the river is calm and clear you should be able to see a pair of spectacles reflect in the water.


By accident we managed to pass another Starbucks on the way to the train station. They had a brand new collection of mugs (put up yesterday) and we just had to by the 7th and 8th mug of this trip. We had some coffee as well!

After leaving our bags we headed north by foot to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. It was very interesting. I learned that the Nagasaki bomb wasn't meant for Nagasaki but for Kokura further to the northeast, but because of clouds it couldn't be dropped there and was instead dropped over Nagasaki. We also visited the Memorial Buidling as well as the Hypocenter Park and Peace Park where we had our lunch bought at Family Mart (yes, this time rice was included).

A replica of the bomb.

We found a Swede in the museum...Olof Palme.

Hypocenter Park.

The Peace Park.

Heading back to the train station we visited a shopping mall with a Ferris wheel (pariserhjul) on the roof. I couldn't find the Japanese school backpack (a Randosero) that I really want to buy. It's so cool but very expensive (but apparently there are cheaper ones somewhere). My nephews backpacks cost about 30000 JPY (about 2500 SEK or 365 CAD). And the ones I've seen in stores are even more expensive.

We happend to see a Swedish suitcase brand that I have never seen in Sweden though. Can you tell that it's Swedish?

We also happened to see this add for tires with DiCaprio...

Rickard as a samurai.

We had our first bento dinner on the train. Bento is like a food box with different compartments. They are very popular here.

We have settled into our new larger hotel room in Hakata/Fukuoka! Our last was really small compared to this one ... I bet two of last nights hotel rooms would fit in this one. At the same time it's quite a lot cheaper than our last one!

Time to prepare for another day on the streets tomorrow!

See you later alligators ...