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Today we are travelling on the Seaside Liner from Nagasaki to Huis Ten Bosch. Took a few photos at Nagasaki Station.
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Shianbashi is Nagasaki's nightlife area (and former red light district). At night, it comes alive with little restaurants and snack bars.
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Teramachi literally means "Temple town" and it is a street full of ... temples. There's an amazing variety of temples here.
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Spectacles Bridge is Japan's first Chinese-style stone bridge and one of Japan's Top 3 most well known bridges.
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Dejima was used to quarantine foreign traders (Portuguese, then Dutch) during the Edo period of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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We also explored various places around the Nagasaki historic quarter including Oura Machi and Minami Yamate-Machi.
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The strangely named "Dutch Slope" is a sloping road leading up to a hill where there are historical Western style houses.
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Glover Garden is situated on the southern slope of the Minamiyamate hillside and offers a superb and extensive view of Nagasaki Harbour.
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We also visited the Nagasaki Peace Museum, which was similar to the one in Hiroshima but on a smaller scale.
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The Atomic Bomb Hypocentre has concentric circles marked around it like a bullseye target, next to the nearby remains of the Urakami church.
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Nagasaki Peace Park is built on a low hill to the north of the hypocentre of the atomic bomb blast, and features the Peace Sculpture.
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We walked through the Nagasaki Seaside Park. This offers views of Dejima Harbour and incoming boats, plus open space.
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Today is a rainy day, which is perfect for travelling from Osaka to Nagasaki. We arrived at 3pm and checked in to the Richmond Hotel.