Shinkansen to Osaka

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!

Batman makes Castella!

This company has been making castella (Portuguese sponge cake) since something like the seventeeth...

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Nagasaki Religion

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

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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Cemetery in the Hills of Nagasaki

Cemetery in the Hills of Nagasaki

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The Largest Camphor Tree in Nagasaki

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

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

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

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

Nagasaki Chinatown

Apart from being the major point were Europeans interacted with Japan, Nagasaki was also...

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Sugar Artwork

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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