The view of Sotome village

Museum of Endo Shusaku (the most famous Christian novelist in Japan) in Sotome

A church in Sotome

Megane bashi in downtown Nagasaki

Oh-ura Tenshu Do

Nagasaki city

Sofuku -Ji, the Chinese temple in Nagasaki

Mazu statue

Nagasaki's trolley

Shoro Nagashi (sending souls of the dead in the family on August 15), the main event of this trip

Each family or neighborhood builds a ship to send off their family members who passed away in the past year. Thousands of ships like this are pulled from their houses to the main street of Nagasaki.

They fire millions of firecrackers and create extremely loud sounds. No wonder ear plugs were sold everywhere in the town.

I joined one of the "Saruku (meaning 'walking' in the Nagasaki dialect)" tours to visit the Chinese residential area of the Edo era.

The Statue of Peace in the Peace park in the atom-bombed site.

The memorial for the 26 saints, who were executed by the Toyotomi authority, which banned Christian activities in the 16C.

Preparing a ship for the Shoro nagashi

The site of Siebold's house (a famous German medical doctor who lived in Nagasaki in the 1820s)

The graveyard of the Tokai Family (supposedly prominent interpreters in Dejima during the Edo era)

The Statue of Sakamoro Ryoma, a famous revolutionary of the late Edo era.