Sunday, July 09, 2006

Japan: NAGASAKI!!!!

05-27-2006

So this weekend we went to 長崎 (Nagasaki). We woke up early as usual, met in the lobby of the Seminar House, then walked down to the coach bus, which took us to Nagasaki. The bus trip takes about 2 hours to get there, however, we stopped at a few places along the way. The first place we stopped at was in Saga and called 佐賀城本 (Sagajou Honmaru - Saga Castle).

Sagajou was very pretty. It was like this pristine example of traditional Japanese housing. Albeit, quite a lot bigger than normal. The first part if it was like a museum where they showed various places. Hmm... I guess there's not too much else to say about it. The pictures below are just random shots of the place.



The next place we went to was this awesome shrine that was shoved into the side of a mountain. The name of it is 神社 (Yutoku Jinja). This particular jinja had stairs going up for a good ways to see the shrines and such.




After a good bus ride, we finally arrived at the Dejima Historical Island. This place was apparantly an artificial island created by the Dutch maybe? All of the residences had an interesting mix of Japanese and Western culture. Dejima was right next to our hotel so it was only a quick bus ride to Tredia Hotel where I would get my own room to myself! With a private bathroom and shower!




After resting for a bit in the hotel, we went to a Chinese restaurant (the picture below was what I thought to be a very stereotypical Asian picture on the way to the restaurant). I guess the food was pretty good, but it was kind of odd and not typically Chinese food (for instance, there was no rice...) I started playing with the features of my camera this day, which is why some pictures have the kind of Sin City effect where one color is accentuated and everything else is black and white. After dinner, a few of us went wandering around Nagasaki with Nacky-sensei and Matsushima-sensei. In one of the stores we saw this Godzilla made out of meat that looked pretty cool so pretty much everyone took a picture of it.



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