03/21 Nagasaki

We arrive at kagoshima at 9:35 and quickly looked for a taxi, as ourtrain was leaving fairly soon and we needed to activate our trainpass. We didn't have time to do much at Kagoshima but did get to seeSakurajima, one of Japan's most active volcanos. A quick"Kagoshimachuo eki onegai shimasu" later and we were off. Aftergetting our railpasses we headed to our first train. To get toNagasaki, we needed to take 3 trains. Keegan fell in love with thefirst train attendant but it was not meant to be as we switched trainsquickly. The train attendant on the next train didn't do it forkeegan. Between the 2nd and last trains we found a noodle shop on theplatform so we gave it a try. We ordered udon with minced chicken for¥290. The last train brought us from Tosu to Nagasaki, which wearrived at 2:50. Our hostel was very close to the trainstation soafter a quick stop we were off to the Nagasaki Peace Park.

In the park was the "Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for theAtomic Bomb Victims". The central theme was water as after the bombingsurvivors flocked to the area in search of water at the springs. Manypeople dies at the springs from the radiation. The central hall has 12pilar of light to stmbolize peace and a giant registry has the recordof all casualities.

Afterwards we headed to the centrl peace park where many statues were.Dima did his usual girl watching there. While leaving the peace parkwe found a bakery that had castellas, a portugese pastery.

The next place we went to was dejima, which was a man made island forthe Dutch settlers. Near there was a market were we had some streetfood called inohoyaki which was like a pancake sandwich with Japanesemayo and veggies and meat. The specticle bridges, cemetery/shine, andkofukuji temple were also checked out. For dinner we went to a randomplace and pointed at random items. Dima doesn't like that kind ofeating but it was 2 against 1. We had tempura, seaweed, fried fishpaste, lotus root and dima had fried chicken. Our hostel closed earlyso we had to go back soon. At the hostel we just chilled on the commonroom talking to the other travellers.