Nagasaki is Japan’s first international city with a history of trading with many countries since Nagasaki port opened in 1571. The city has many tourist places with hidden Japanese historical significance. It was the Gateway to foreign countries and the first area where Christianity spread. It played a major part in Japan’s industrial modernization and was the site of the Atomic bomb used in WW2.       Population : 390,000 people, Population density : 970 people / km2

Nagasaki, in Nagasaki-prefecture…の続きを読む

  The cruise ship take you exploring Tachibana bay from Nagasaki port and landing on  Hashima island. The site has been registered on UNESCO World Heritages as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution. Now Hashima is a ruins called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the silhouette.  Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island, both islands giving access to the same undersea coal deposit. Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of Japan’s first major undersea coal exploitation pioneered by Mitsubishi – and host to one of the world’s most extraordinary former mining communities.

Gunkan-jima island cruise, in Nagasaki-p…の続きを読む