This is Nagasaki

So...the plan is to go to Nagasaki with my Seminar III class on the 21st/22nd November, which I'm pretty excited about!!

Nagasaki isn't too far away from us here in Kumamoto. This once little harbour village grew into a diverse port city and became a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese War. However, it is the nuclear incident which Nagasaki is well-known for.

During World War II, Nagasaki was subject to a nuclear attack, along with Hiroshima, due to it's importance regarding it's wide ranging industrial activity including the production of ships, military equipment etc. The atomic bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man", destroyed the north of the city and killed around 40,000 people at 11:00am, 9th August 1945. In total, it said that around 80,000 people were killed by the bomb by the end of 1945. Six days after this detonation, Japan announced it's surrender which ended the Pacific War, and therefore WWII.

Since then, the city has been rebuilt with new temples, and churches (due to the increase of Christianity in this area) along with memorial structures etc. However, some rubble has been left as a memorial like the One-Legged Torii Gate.

Nagasaki sets a strong example of perservearance and peace.

Sight seeing spots include:

Nagasaki Peace Park

Gunkanjima

Glover Garden

Mount Inasa
Dejima

Sofukuji Temple

China Town

Kofukuji Temple

Confucian Shrine

Dutch Slope

Oura Church
Meganebashi Bridge

I am really interested in seeing the Peace Park, Gunkanjima, the view from Mount Inasa, Oura Church and the temples and shrines (ok so pretty much all of it! Yayyy exciting!)