VISITING A REBUILT HIROSHIMA AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMBING

Instagram@ danieldavidgordon/ From the top of the Mt. Inasa in Nagasaki, you can get a 360 degree panoramic view of Nagasaki city, so it’s worth visiting even if it’s not a night view. It's highly recommended you take the ropeway cable car to the top of the 1093 foot mountain for easier access. It's a lot further to the top than it appears. The cable car will take you a distance of about 3500 feet and climb about 980 feet elevation. Nozomi (のぞみ, "Wish" or "Hope") is the fastest train service running on the Tōkaidō & San'yō Shinkansen lines in Japan. The service stops at only the largest stations, and along the stretch between Shin-Ōsaka and Hakata, Nozomi services using N700 series equipment reach speeds of (186 mph). Pro Tip: Be sure to buy your Japan rail pass well before your trip to Japan. Buy it in your home country online to enjoy a massive discount over the normal rate you would pay once you are in Japan. We are headed for the 750 mile journey to Nagasaki. 664 of those miles are on the bullet train or the SHinkansen Nozomi for under 5 hours. The final leg of the trip is on a traditional train for under a hundred miles in two hours. In 2022, the bullet train should be able to go all the way to Nagasaki after the extension project is completed making it even faster to get there.

Many of the churches here comprise the Hidden Christian sites have been included in the Unesco World Heritage list. The church’s influence was felt because Nagasaki was the sole port used for trade with the Portugese and Dutch from the 16th through the 19th centuries. This area became diverse with imports of Tobacco, bread, textiles and a Portugese sponge cake that most of Japan has never seen within its borders before. The American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack (at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945 'Japan Standard Time. The city has grown substantially from around 240k near the time of the atomic bombing in 1945 to over 400,000 people in 2020.

After spending a full week in Tokyo including Tokyo Disneyland, we are ready for exploring the rest of Japan. We are headed for the 750 mile journey to Nagasaki. 664 of those miles are on the bullet train or the SHinkansen Nozomi for under 5 hours. The final leg of the trip is on a traditional train for under a hundred miles in two hours. In 2022, the bullet train should be able to go all the way to Nagasaki after the extension project is completed making it even faster to get there.

This is the top of a gatepost from a school that was about 2000 feet north of the hypocenter. That’s almost .4 miles from the blast zone where it still caused it to break off. The heat rays melted the cement at the top into ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFLTzvnEkuM