Nagasaki

A city famous the world over due to having been

the second city to suffer an atomic bomb attack.

A pretty city in a beautiful setting with a long history

of contact with the outside world. Nagasaki was one of

only places in Japan that maintained some contact with

western countries when Japan was largely closed to the

outside world. This is me relaxing and waiting for my tea

to come at a small museum in Nagasaki's Chinatown.

This is a photo from a house in Glover

garden where some of the wealthy western traders

lived when Japan opened back up to the west in the

late 19th century. The weather wasn't the best that day

but maybe you can get a sense of the scenery of

the city and it's wonderful setting on the harbor. This is

looking toward the city while to the left the

harbor eventually opens up to the open sea.

Dejima is the very small

island in the harbor on which the Dutch traders were housed.

This photo is of the inside of what a Dutch traders house

on Dejima might have looked like; it's an interesting

combination of Japanese and western styles.

My favorite part of Nagasaki was the quiet and atmospheric Chinatown

(at least it was on the days I was there).