After breakfast at the 長崎マリオット Nagasaki Marriott, we headed north to visit the 平和公園 Peace Park and 浦上天主堂 Urakami Cathedral before lunch. After, we visited the atomic bomb hypocenter and the adjacent 原爆資料館 Atomic Bomb Museum and the 国立長崎原爆死没者追悼平和祈念館 Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. In the early evening, we returned to Nagasaki Station for dinner.
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After breakfast at the 長崎マリオット Nagasaki Marriott, we first visited 出島 Dejima, an artificial island that served as a Portuguese and then Dutch trading post and was the only port open in Japan for Westerners. We next visited グラバー園 Glover Garden, which contains former Western residences. Finally, we walked through the オランダ坂 Dutch Slope and 長崎水辺の森公園 Nagasaki Seaside Park before having Yakiniku for dinner at the edge of Chinatown.
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In the morning, we walked from the Grand Hyatt over to the Nishitetsu Fukuoka Tenjin Station to take the train to 太宰府 Dazaifu. We had lunch at a special Ichiran restaurant featuring auspicious five sided bowls and longer 59cm noodles. After, we walked through the tourist shopping street on the way to 太宰府天満宮 Dazaifu Tenmangu. We walked through the large shrine before visiting the 九州国立博物館 Kyushu National Museum nearby. We had some snacks on the way back to the train station before returning to Fukuoka for a sushi dinner and Amaou Strawberries.
Continue reading “Dazaifu”A Rainy Day in Lyon
We woke up to a rainy day at the InterContinental Lyon Hotel-Dieu. After getting a late start, we spent most of the afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts. We then had an early dinner at a bouchon in Old Lyon before an early end to the day.
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After breakfast at the InterContinental Lyon, we headed over to Grenoble and visited the Museum of the Old Bishop’s Palace and adjacent Notre-Dame Cathedral. After lunch, we took the gondola up to the Bastille, a fortress that overlooks the city, and walked back down.
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