27.08.2016: Walk and A-bomb museum

In the morning, the hostel organized a 'Free Walking Tour' for me with a local. Yuki was very nice and showed me a beautiful shrine, the adjacent petting zoo, and the riverside promenade of Nagasaki. After that, I rested for a while and went to see the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.

This museum was a bit smaller than the one in Hiroshima, but no less shocking. I was particularly impressed that eyewitnesses served as 'peace guides' and guided the visitors (unfortunately only in Japanese).

Afterwards, I visited the Memorial Park at the hypocenter, where remnants of the large cathedral destroyed by the bomb still stood. Nagasaki was heavily influenced by Christianity due to its role as the gateway to the Western world, so the largest cathedral in East Asia could be found in Nagasaki until 1945. Then I took a stroll to the Peace Park, where many memorial statues were exhibited.

My last destination of the day was the Sanno Shrine, whose torii gate survived the atomic bomb only halfway.