Nagasaki day 2 with some tears

 What a view from the window this morning!

From the Nagasaki Rope way up to the top of Mount Inasa for some spectacular views. 

While we were up there we found what we thought looked like a roller coaster.

It’s actually called a Slope Car and a snail goes faster lol. 

From there we made our way to meet our guide for the day at Nagasaki train station, hailing a cab with ease and finding the meeting place, no problem because we are geniuses … just sayin’

Very quickly we were off to the bane of my Japanese holiday … up

Oh my goodness, we definitely do not need a stairmaster here. In the Nagasaki Atomic bomb museum we took unique and emotive walk down the spiral entry symbolising the journey from present to past.

Down the spiral to the minute the bomb exploded, captured in this clock at the entrance.

Like the Hiroshima museum, this museum was very moving, and our guide made the experience so much more … enjoyable is not the right word … rewarding. 

We walked past the hypocentre, the bomb exploded 500 metres above this exact spot. 

In Peace Park this fountain we see again in its dedication the drive of survivors to give some relief the poor souls who died crying desperately for a drink of water and the extreme desire for peace.

There are statues from every country expressing the shared desire for peace. This is the one from Australia.

And this one was erected in 1955 on the 10th anniversary.

The children were from schools. They make paper cranes for peace. They stand in front of this statue and they sing their songs for peace in three part harmony.  They are crying out for peace. And this is when I started to cry. Because we, as their adults are letting them down, and they are doing all they can and I just wanted to hug them all and say the world will know peace in their lifetime.

Fortunately, we did not end our day on this sad note. We went to Glover garden. A complex of buildings and gardens built for Thomas Glover, a Scottish merchant who the Japanese attribute the modernisation of Japan through shipbuilding and coal mining.