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| Above, tour boats moored at Nakasaki's harbor. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The Age.com has posted a good article on the city of Nagasaki, Japan.
It starts out with:
Green, vibrant and cosmopolitan, Nagasaki shatters its war-torn image, writes Steve McKenna.
'Nagasaki is the most beautiful city in Japan, more beautiful than even Kyoto," says Bill, an ebullient, baseball-capped American with a fondness for all things Nippon. This is Bill's seventh trip to Nagasaki, but he's looking to get further under the city's skin, so he's joined today's walking tour. It's led by Kaz, an affable fortysomething who's part of a network of volunteer guides keen to show tourists there's more to this city than tragic war stories.
"Nagasaki has such a long history; such a colourful history," Kaz says. "Too many people think it begins and ends in 1945 with the atomic bomb. We want them to know more."
I visited Nagasaki in 2007 in what can be described as a "whirlwind" tour of Kyushu. It is indeed a beautiful city with no signs of the 1945 atomic attack except at the Peace and Hypocenter Parks (they are actually one park, but most separate the two) and museum.
What I enjoyed most were the rides on Nagasaki's streetcars/trolleys (above photo). The rides reminded me of Los Angeles before the last streetcars were removed in 1963.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/travel/beauty-on-the-quiet-20121005-273tx.html#ixzz28jJPZtcx
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