Nagasaki, now a city of 400,000 inhabitants. It is located in the north-west of Kyushu, about 80km away from Kumamoto.
Nagasaki was the first time and only city that was allowed to float in isolation time Japan's trade with other countries, exclusively with the Netherlands.
world became famous city by the second atomic bomb at the end of Second World War. It is controversial whether the radioactive radiation, which still prevails in the city, is harmful.
We spent the weekend of Saturday 22 to Sunday, 24 January, there.
With the festivities were, from left to right: John (D), Michelle (USA), followed by Jordan (her boyfriend, USA), Mathieu (F), Kathy (UK), Matt (GB), before Marie-Laure ( F), Nadav (NL), me and Marion (F).
The photos can be found here: http://m1187.photobucket.com/albums/sa-m3/Annika/Nagasaki/
We went with two rental cars to Nagasaki. One of the two suffered during the stay in Nagasaki scratches a slight body damage and more. How exactly this happened, I can not say as I sat in the other car. The drivers were
Mathieu and John, the co-pilot was me and Matt. Our job is to send the driver the right way along what is in my case, failed more often than not. The display of the navigation system was set so that it looked as you would have to turn later than it actually was. Therefore, we needed only three quarters of an hour to ever leave Kumamoto. Then we drove
3 hours after Nagasaki over. Mathieu and I got to go for the grammar exam on Wednesday and talked about all sorts of things, such as the calmly sleeping passengers (Kathy, Marie-Laure and Marion) in the back seat. Arrived in
Nagsaki we proceeded us further 8 times and then parked our car to check in at our hostel, after we had walked half an hour in the wrong direction, as a friendly Japanese man who wanted to show us the way, do not really know wherever he went.
Unfortunately the owner was flown at the time and so we decided to take our first lunch. I ate very delicious tonkatsu (a kind of crisps) with rice and coleslaw. Nagasaki has really good food. Then we checked out
(it was already 4 clock, even though we were gone off at 7:30 at home). We shared a large room to eight (which was heated by the EAKon only half, so Mathieu and I was pretty cold at night), Michelle and her friend had a twin room.
Then we wanted to look at a church, but was closed when we arrived. So it went straight on to include a lookout point on one of the three mountains, Nagasaki. It was bitterly cold, so we did not stay long. In addition, we were by the Japanese viewed obliquely (for whatever reason, probably just because we are gaijin) and after a short while, three Koreans appeared next to us, which we sold with their terrible language and more terrible manners. The view however was stunning. (Photos to follow!)
All the way from the hostel to the mountain itself Mathieu proceeded despite correct instructions further 5 times.
There was now getting late in the evening, we decided to go eat something and play in our room The Ring of Fire, a drinking game. Nadav and a few of the others went to buy alcoholic drinks, while Mathieu with the unruly shower fighting, which he originally wanted to use it to take a bath. Meanwhile, warm Marie-Laure and I are among the very weak EAKon.
As we left the hostel in search of food, we realized that we are in Nagasaki despite the international fame apparently not suited to tourism, as in the area had pretty much all the shops closed. When we still found a place where we could eat dinner, we were durchgefrohren, but relieved. After we ordered our food, the only other customer called in the small shop (Japanese) Mathieu out to arm wrestling, much to our surprise. Mathieu won two rounds with little to no effort, which the Japanese were not crooked. Then I got a meal (yakiniku, grilled meat with rice), which had sent the sky. It was the most delicious food I have eaten in Japan until now.
Then we went back to the hostel, where we separated from Michelle and Jordan who wanted to go to bed early. We, however, started The Ring of Fire, where we had to, among other things, according to a rule established amusing nicknames invented for each other (eg, Nessie, John, Sarkozy Mathieu, Barbie for Matt Merkel for me).
featured in the night we've made that: The boys were the only ones who were cleaning teeth at night, and John snores at night.
We left at 10 clock in the morning with a delay of one hour and went to a nearby shopping mall on successful breakfast and souvenir hunting. In the passage way, there was also a shop that whale meat and other products sold. Terrible. Then we went
at my request to a shrine nearby. Funnily enough, is one of the three mountains, which include Nagasaki, obstructed at the foot of virtually temples and shrines. To the shrine led countless steps, the Mathieu and Nadav climbed in a race that Mathieu won because Nadav gave up after 3 / 4 of the route. Mathieu however, ran all the way up to the shrine.
top we visited the shrine, the adjoining small garden and the shrine's own small zoo. In the enclosures with other animals was a chipmunk, squirrels in the old style that flitting through the cage.
And hoarding stocks ...
followed by the visit to the shrine to visit the island of Dejima. Dejima is an artificial island, built in the period of isolation for the Dutch, so they would not cooperate with the Japanese living on the mainland (which went against the grain of the Japanese, somehow, I know do not remember exactly why. I guess they could not because Japan was indeed cut off at the time theoretically completely from the outside world and the Dutch only exception to the rule). Today the island is no longer in front of the city, but rather lies in a bay between the remaining Houses of Nagasaki. Was likely over time be banked land to increase the area of Nagasaki. In Dejima today is a museum that is housed in replicas of old-Dutch homes.
model of the island of Dejima
After we visited still around the Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Museum to the Explosionszemtrum the atomic bomb.
had up to this point, I felt Nagasaki as a beautiful city that boasts some very friendly people and exudes a quiet, peaceful atmosphere. If you're as by the Streets once walked or stood there quietly and looked around, it was really hard to believe that you were standing in a city where a bomb had exploded and killed 70,000 people and has injured 70 000 more difficult. Nagasaki is perhaps really a city where people have found peace.
Kanji: Hei-wa-ko-en (Peace Park)
In Peace Park, we looked at many sites, including the famous Peace Statue.
The museum was a bit away from the park and on the way there we were again in monuments over, among other things with origami chains as a sign of compassion for the atomic bomb victims.
input of the atomic bomb museum, Kanji: Gen-baku-shi-ryo-kan (Atomic Bomb Museum) The museum
himself was very well done. The first room consisted of remnants of the city they have collected. Among other things, a part of a church facade, was destroyed by anything. In between was a film on a monitor with photos after the impact, and reports of survivors. In the background the whole time was a dramatic and sad music, which I very quickly replied in the mood to take all these terrible and continue to walk through the museum, with a dozen stones in the stomach and the feeling that I may never again return to this city after I've seen it all.
were exhibited including a realistic model of the atomic bomb, Fat Man, and their internal structure (as Nadav and I stood in front of the model and we talked about it quietly appeared at one time a large group of Koreans who boldly shit before us and the model of crowding, shouting loudly some crap in their horrible language, and then moved on just as loud, antisocial Pack, you can really say). Also to be considered, several simulations of the pressure and heat wave of the atomic bomb and the fire that due to the heat wave spread quickly and devastatingly in Nagasaki.
The heat wave, consisting of infrared radiation, burned walls in the shade (there is a photo of a wall where the shadow of a man is baked), clay tiles brought to boiling and bubbling, set fire to houses and trees and every man fatally burned in 2km radius. inflamed in Hiroshima because of the heat radiation still 10km away trees, not what happened in Nagasaki, because the city in a valley surrounded by three Bergen is located. Who
not in Nagasaki by the explosion, the pressure or the heat wave died, the poor had yet to be cured. Who had the good fortune to have been killed by the heat wave, because he might just gefand in a house that was probably buried under the rubble of the house that was torn apart by the blast only Sun Or he burned in the subsequent fire that almost took the city. Those who did not die out, perhaps because of the drinking water shortage the black rain that followed the explosion and, in principle, only radioactive fallout was.
who all survived, who died shortly thereafter or A few years later from the effects of radioactive contamination. Still a few living survivors of the atomic bomb, but if you ask me, the poor people might have been better off not to survive it all. After the museum we
gone a long staircase down to the explosion of the bomb crater. There, a monument was erected on the site, about 500m in height, the bomb exploded and the town was razed to the ground.
After this visit we went again to a church in order to determine that it was already closed. So we ate still more or less appetite for dinner and then made our way back to the Kumamoto, we proceeded on the course again ...
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