A dense gray fog envelops the bay, hides the entrance to the harbor, hiding the mountains from prying eyes and does not allow you to see everything that awaits you behind this veil.
Morning Nagasaki appears unexpectedly through this haze, apparently deciding that it’s time to allow one to admire its beautiful bay, the slopes of forested mountains, a line of cars, and the spiers of temples cutting through the foggy sky, of which there are more in Nagasaki than in all of Japan. Either the folds of the hills are neatly laid around the bay, whose outline resembles the figure of a flying crane (any Japanese knows this, Nagasaki is the “port of the crane”), or the narrow and long bay crashed into the unsuspecting shores, and remained there forever, lulled by the noise of the forests, but all this is so beautiful and so perfect that no one even thinks of challenging the glory of one of the most beautiful cities in Japan.
Residents of the city are convinced that the most beautiful view of Nagasaki opens to those who enter the harbor by ship, and not by plane - this was originally intended, so that everyone who sails would be amazed and admire the beauty of the only (!) Japanese city open to foreigners for almost two years. centuries. Maybe that’s why there is a special friendliness and incredible hospitality here that greets everyone who decides to see the Japanese “window to Europe” with their own eyes...
Nagasaki City is the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture, which is located in the northwestern part of the island of Kyushu.
During the Edo period, Nagasaki was the only trading port and a kind of gateway to Japan.
You can talk about Nagasaki for a long time, jumping from topic to topic, returning to the unsaid, trying to give out all the necessary and important information, getting lost in emotions and delight and sharing a bunch of impressions. Even one day in Nagasaki will give you so much that your memories will be organized into neat lines of a report.
I will try to talk more about useful things, but it’s difficult to speak with restraint and sparingly...
I will not be mistaken in assuming that for the whole world, Nagasaki is, first of all, the horrors of the nuclear bombing and its terrible consequences.
-Aren't you afraid to swim to where there was a nuclear explosion? - your acquaintances asked you, “making eyes” and glancing at you, as if just the thought of Nagasaki could make you “fan,” distributing radiation left and right. I hasten to say to everyone who is worried about this:
No, don't be afraid. No, it’s not scary, because it wasn’t dangerous a long time ago.
The fact is that the nuclear bomb exploded in the air before reaching the ground, and everything it was stuffed with scattered through the air, touching Nagasaki with just a little bit. The power of the bomb was 100 times less than what exploded in the Chernobyl reactor, and a week after the explosion, the land of Nagasaki was completely safe in terms of radioactivity.
All the horror that made the world tremble was caused by a blast wave and terrible fires, and they have nothing to do with radiation.
After a visit to Nagasaki, you will not go bald, you will not begin to glow in the dark, nothing new will grow on you and nothing will fall off, suddenly becoming redundant. In general, nothing special will happen, just like with the several thousand passengers on the ship. The residents of the city, happy, healthy, active, with cheerful and obedient children, are also a vivid example of the safety of Nagasaki for all living things.
Therefore, don’t retell stories, don’t fill your head with nonsense wandering around the Internet, and if you have a chance to see Nagasaki with your own eyes, grab it with both hands!
Nagasaki is first and foremost the city where the love story of Madame Butterfly was born. To visit where Puccini’s music still plays today, where lovers from all over Japan rush to, and I advise you to see with your own eyes a real house and garden, and not a theatrical set. Visit and touch the place where a beautiful and, in fact, not at all sad love story was born...
And the cruise also gives you the opportunity to have good guides/accompaniments with notes on how and how ordinary Japanese people live, and to make you fall in love with the Land of the Rising Sun.
The city received its name in honor of the cape on which it is located - “Nagasaki-shi” means “long cape”. AND