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Shinkansen to Osaka
This was the Shinkansen from Fukuoka to Osaka, which we took to get back to the airport.
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Batman makes Castella!
This company has been making castella (Portuguese sponge cake) since something like the seventeeth...
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Nagasaki Religion
Here you see a shot of some flowers in bloom in the midst of a cemetary outside of a Zen Temple. ...
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An Overgrown Shrine
In back of a cemetery in the hills of Nagasaki, there's an overgrown shrine with a stone bridge across a small, still pond. I thought it was pretty.
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The Largest Camphor Tree in Nagasaki
At twenty meters tall and eight meters in circumference, this is one of the largest camphor trees in Nagasaki, just outside the Kanzenji Temple.
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Prayers in Fukusai-ji Temple
Underneath the giant statue of Kannon riding a turtle is a Bhuddist temple, and within that temple...
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Kannon at Fukusai-ji
This is an eighteen meter statue of Kannon, the Bhuddist goddess of mercy, riding a giant turtle. ...
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The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan
On February 5, 1597, twenty-six Christians were crucified in Nagasaki by order of the Shogunate,...
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Nagasaki Chinatown
Apart from being the major point were Europeans interacted with Japan, Nagasaki was also...
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Sugar Artwork
One of the major tradegoods that the Dutch brought to Japan was sugar, and to commemorate...
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Model of Dejima
This shows the artificial island of Dejima, the only place for hundreds of years that foreigners...
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Model of Dejima
This shows the artificial island of Dejima, the only place for hundreds of years that foreigners...
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Nagasaki at Night
This is a view toward the Harbor from one of the bridges at night.
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Two Camphor Trees at Sanno Shrine
These five hundred year-old camphor trees stood in front of the Sanno Shrine in Nagasaki, not 800...
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Bundles of Paper Cranes at the Peace Museum
Thousands upon thousands of paper cranes are sent to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum as prayers of...
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Hypocenter Monument
This is a somewhat needlessly artsy picture I took of the monument erected to mark the hypocenter of...
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Hypocenter Point, Nagasaki
This is the spot above which the atomic bomb detonated. In the foreground is a section of wall from...
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Japan 2011
Sirens 2010
A Day In The Life
Heading West
Honeymoon
