Photo: Aspere / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 7-hour call or longer
The bomb and the trading island — both told properly
Room to spare
None
Fits a 7-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
¥300–600
Trams ¥300–600 (or the ¥600 day pass). Museum ¥200, Dejima ¥1,100.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada
Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.
The route
How the day runs
Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.
- +0:00Tram north to Peace Park (~25 min riding, one change; 40–50 min door to door)
Flat fare; exact coins or IC
What you will see hereFull guide: The Peace Park & Atomic Bomb Museum - +0:30Atomic Bomb Museum + Peace Park
Quieter than Hiroshima, no less heavy
What you will see hereFull guide: The Peace Park & Atomic Bomb Museum
Photo: jimmyweee / CC BY 2.0 - +2:30
- +3:00Dejima — the fan-shaped Dutch island, rebuilt
Walk the same bridge the surgeons did
What you will see hereFull guide: Dejima
Photo: Masoud Akbari / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +4:00Chinatown: kakuni-manju standing snack
Iwasaki Honpo’s pork buns
- +4:40Walk back to the wharf
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like
Nagasaki, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Different hours, different day