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The windowFor two centuries, this fan of land was all Japan could see of the West
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The faithSeven generations in secret, and the day they walked into a church and said so
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The second cityThe city that was not the target
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The tableWhat happens when a port cooks for three countries at once
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The ruinThe most crowded place on earth, abandoned in a single season
Read the story →Cruise seasons run spring to autumn, but the port changes underneath them.
Chinatown and the city fill with 15,000 lanterns for two weeks around Chinese New Year.
Comfortable walking on the slopes before the humidity arrives.
Glover Garden and the temple slopes at their best.
Ideal port-day weather; Gunkanjima boats run at their most reliable.
Hydrangeas everywhere — the flower the Dutch physician Siebold named after a Nagasaki woman.
Those slopes are unforgiving in humidity. Use the escalators to Glover Garden.
The city stops at 11:02. If your call lands on this day, be respectful and be there.
Gunkanjima landings cancel often; the city itself is unaffected.
Dragon dances and Dutch-influenced floats — 400 years old and genuinely wild.
Cool, clear, and the harbour night view at its sharpest from Mt. Inasa.
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