Nagasaki (長崎) is a port city on the western side of Kyushu that has played a hugely important role in many different aspects of Japan’s history. It was the first dedicated port of trade with the West, the place at which Christianity began to take root in the country, and Japan’s only sanctioned port of trade with the Dutch during its 250-year period of isolation. Outside of Japan, however, Nagasaki is perhaps most well known as the city, along with Hiroshima, on which the US dropped an atomic bomb during World War II.
Things to Do

Garden in Nagasaki housing the former home of Thomas Glover



Observation deck on Mount Inasa that provides one of Japan’s best night views

Museum in commemoration of those that died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki


