Harrison's JET Blog: Nagasaki

We took some time walking around the stone bridges.

This is a nice way to do a map. Too bad some tiles were missing.

There was a cat by the bridges. It was something of a princess.

This bridge was called Meganebashi, or Spectacles Bridge, because it looks like a pair of glasses a little bit.

Oops, I made it a funny face.

I saw a second cat.

Here's Kofukuji Temple.

Nagasaki has a lot of Chinese in its history.

This is Suwa Shrine. It was crowded, as usual.

This fountain area was pretty.

The shrine also had a zoo area. The meerkats were so cute.

There were also red-faced monkeys, some birds, rabbits, goats, a badger and a bear. But they were all caged up and hard to photograph. I felt bad for the monkeys and the bear in their small enclosures.

The restaurant we went to for lunch had a nice view. That cruise ship explains why there were so many people speaking English around the stone bridges.

It was a Chinese-style place. We got champon and saraudon which was similar to chow mein. The sauce even tasted like Chinese food.

The building also had a "champon museum" on one floor.

This was a interesting read. I didn't expect that champon was actually created by a Chinese immigrant.

Here's a fancy pork bun. It's got a slab of pork belly in there.

Oura Church. This is as close as you can get without buying a ticket.

Glover Garden has some nice spots.

A bunch of big fancy burial plots.

The famous Hollander Slope. Also called the Dutch Slope, it leads up a hillside where many foreign traders resided after the opening of the city's port to foreign trade in 1859. Because the Dutch were the only Westerners allowed in the country for the preceding two centuries, "Dutch" referred to everything Western for a while. It's apparently a popular tourist area and filming location.