Nagasaki

I got to visit Nagasaki during a recent port visit.
It was somehow not what I expected and yet, exactly what I expected.

There is a proud history of survival and desire to not have war or nuclear arms.

The fountain of peace was put there to symbolize the water that people cried out for as they were dying, and there was none to be had.

 These are the tunnels dug into the hilltop upon rests the memorial park.

Countries around the world sent sculptures to the memorial park to show solidarity. This one came from New Zealand and Australia.

 The center statue of the park, is a man who is sitting in meditation, ready to act, praying for heavenly support and action that no one should ever experience the devastation of a nuclear bomb ever again.

A shrine, common at memorial sites, especially with the remains of the dead buried underneath the memorial park.

The hypocenter of the bomb.

A clock that was found to have survived the blast and stopped at the exact time the bomb hit 11:02, August 9. I took this picture at the Atomic Bomb Museum.

On an upside, we went to the Nagasaki ropeway, to an observatory at the top of Mt. Inasa.

If you can see the baseball field, move your eyes to the right and see the green patch, you can see the memorial park.