Visiting Nagasaki 80 Years After The Blast 🇯🇵

Visiting Nagasaki 80 Years After The Blast 🇯🇵

Good afternoon from Sasebo, where I’m about to take this train to Nagasaki, a city that was obliterated in 1945. And we’re going to go check it out eight decades later and see what it’s like these days, guys, on this wee train right here, it’s a two-hour journey. Okay, we are three quarters off the way there. We’re at Ishaya Station, guys. Hopefully this doesn’t leave without me. It’s got all my luggage and all that, but we’re stopping here for like five minutes, guys. This train is not what I expected. This is more like a commuter train. So when I was at Sasebo station, I was trying to buy a ticket for this train, thinking it’s one of the trains you buy a ticket for, and I couldn’t see on the machine how to get a ticket to Nagasaki. And then I panicked, the train was leaving in like three or four minutes and I just went to the line and I was able to tap my card. So that’s how you do it. You need the IC card and you tap it, you don’t actually buy a ticket, you can reserve a seat, it’s just two cars and it’s just these benches where it’s comfortable enough, guys, and the whole route has been looked down the coast, getting sea views all the way, it’s been nice, guys. Well, half an hour, we’ll be at Nagasaki. And we have arrived in Nagasaki, and my hotel is next to the train station, but it’s not this one, the Hilton. There should be one on the other side, the Marriott. That’s where I’m going. Let’s see how much this was then. It’s a long journey. Oh, maybe I don’t have enough. Please see staff for assistance. Ah, it came red. Ah, no? It’s wrong. No Sasebo Nagasaki, IC card, no. No? Ah, okay, 1,930. Okay, okay. Okay, arigato gozaimasu. Okay, so apparently you can’t use the IC card to go from Sasebo to Nagasaki. It’s actually one train that goes the whole journey, but it crosses three different lines and tells you to stay on the train, so I don’t know. There was no way for me to buy a ticket for Nagasaki at Sasebo, that’s why I tapped the IC card. But they’re saying, you can’t do that. But instead of me paying cash, he was actually able to charge the IC card himself manually. But usually, you can’t do that. So guys, if you’re gonna do this journey, I don’t know what the procedure is. But yeah, my hotel should either be connected or right next to the train station. In fact, that might be it right there. No, it’s not this side. This is the side with the Hilton. So the Hilton’s on one side and the Marriott’s on the other. So it’ll be over here. And this will be my first time on this trip staying in an international chain hotel, guys, a proper hotel room. Where is it? It looks like it’s right next to it on the map. That’s some kind of mall, some kind of fancy mall, and I think it’s… Ah, here it is, right here, the Marriott, yeah. So, so far on this trip, I’ve been staying in those Japanese business hotels. What they call a business hotel in Japan is like something really cheap, small, but has all the facilities you need, like a desk and all that. So those are the kind of places. Like, if you’ve seen the Sasebo vlog, it was really cheap, like $57, but it was tiny, it was absolutely tiny. Hello. Are you checking in today? Yes, I’m checking in. Seventh floor, okay. I know, it’s fine. Yeah, I know this is going to start raining again, I think, yeah. We can give you some others, too. Oh, really? Okay, thank you so much. Okay, that’s nice. See the hospitality you get. Well, I’m looking forward to this stay. Like I say, like I haven’t been in a hotel that has a gym or a lounge or anything like that so far, but this one has all these facilities that you’re used to from staying in Hilton’s and Marriott’s in the west, you know. I’m checking in. Hello sir. How are you? I’m good, how are you? I’m sorry, it’s a Hilton credit card, I’m so sorry. Thank you. My name is Antoine, I’m the Loyalty Operations Manager. I have upgraded you to a Junior Suite. Junior Suite. Okay, thank you so much, that’s nice. Enjoy your stay. Thank you. Let me just show you around. Do you have everything with you, passport, credit card? Passport, camera, suitcase. Suitcase and memories. Yeah, I need to get the memories first from Nagasaki. Oh yeah, first, the Sasebo memories. The camera. There’s a toilet over here, the bar is over there, the breakfast area is over here. You don’t need a breakfast. Oh wow! – Those look delicious.
– We have like cakes, if you have a sweet tooth, we have also a lot of cakes. Yeah, I do have a sweet tooth. Wow, okay, yeah, nice, okay. And the smiles of our staff is always here. That’s nice. And then this is the breakfast area, the bar is over there, but we also have an executive lounge on the 13th floor. Well, thank you so much, Antonio. – Thank you so much for the hospitality as well.
– You’re more than welcome, of course. – Thank you.
– Right this way. And your card key is one key at a time over here. Thank you very much and you’re all set, okay. Okay, thank you so much. And the gym is at the 8th floor, open also 24 hours. That’s nice. If you get tired of eating. That’s awesome, thanks. Yeah, I’m looking forward to that as well, the gym. So, yeah, all the stuff that I’m used to from staying in these hotels in the west. I haven’t been staying in these hotels in Japan because they’re just so expensive, but in Nagasaki, not so much. This one is only like 180 U.S. dollars a night, which isn’t that much more than I was paid for those business hotels in Fukuoka. But I’m actually, yeah, I’m actually staying here using points. I’m using my Marriott points plus a free night redemption certificate to get like six nights for free, guys. These are points that I’ve earned, not points that I bought or anything like that to do a travel hack. Oh, wow, look at that. The curtains just opened when you come in. Oh, wow. Check it out, guys, that is a proper desk. That will be, I think it’s supposed to be a dining table, but that’s going to be my desk right there. Oh, wow, look at the view I’m getting right here. Let me see. Can I open this? Let’s check out the view here, guys, on this balcony that I didn’t even know I was going to get. I wasn’t even expecting a balcony, but I appreciate it. This is nice. A balcony is a nice thing, isn’t it? You want to be outdoors, but you don’t really feel like going outdoors. You can be outdoors on your own private space, guys. And this is my view all the way around. I’ve got a view of the port, a view of the highway, and a view of the train station. So there’s two different lines, two different train lines coming and going from Nagasaki train station right here. That’ll be nice watching the trains coming and going. And this ahead of us, I believe, is Mount Inasa. Mount Inasa is the famous sunset point. Here there’s some kind of observatory at the top where you can get like a 360-degree view and you can eat and stuff like that. It’s supposed to be one of the best nighttime views in the whole of Japan. It’s from up there, so I’ll need to get myself up there at some point, either today or tomorrow, guys. But this is nice, guys, this is very nice, this upgrade. So the hotel room I booked was supposed to be like 180 U.S. dollars a night in this corner suite. I checked, and it’s like 360 or more, depends on the day, but this could be like well over $400. So that’s the benefit of having the top status with these chain hotels like Marriott, Hilton, and all that. I’ve done really well over the past few years with the upgrades, the Diamond status with Hilton and the Titanium status with Marriott, just getting double your value. And like I said, I didn’t even pay for this hotel room in cash. I paid points, so 20,000 points a night, and then you get the fifth night for free, and then the sixth night, I had a free night certificate that you get when you hit 75 nights the previous year. So I’ve got, basically, six nights without spending a penny, guys, just based on points that I earned last year, and then the upgrade from the status that I earned last year. What is this they’ve given me? Some little gift. Marriott, Nagasaki. It says Fukasa Cube. What is a Fukusaya Cube? I think it’s going to be like some snack, guys. Usually that’s what it is that they give you, it’s some kind of snack. Mr. Dale, wishing you a wonderful stay, Antonio. I suppose Antonio himself has written this, Loyalty Operations manager. What a nice guy, Antonio. What a warm welcome. What a warm welcome to the hotel. Yeah, I’m gonna see what little snack they’ve given me in this Fukusaya cube, guys. Let’s see. Oh, it’s like a wee cake. That’s what it is. Oh, it’s some kind of like sponge thing. Hmm. Ah, that’s it, right there. Some kind of sponge cake, guys. Let’s give it a taste test. Oh, it’s so soft. Very buttery. Buttery, sweet, fluffy. Yum, yum. Wonder if that’s something different or just the same. I’ll keep it for later. Well, let’s check out the rest of this room, guys. This is going to be nice to set up my laptop. A proper full working desk. We’ve got the power outlet right next to it. We’ve got one of these. Every hotel I’ve stayed in has had one of these so far in Japan. They’re the same brand and everything. I wonder what that is. You fill it with water and it humidifies the room for you. Sometimes you’re staying in a hotel and you wake up, you’ve had the AC on all night and you feel a bit dry, your lips are a bit dry, your throat’s a bit dry, everything’s a bit dry, well, these are humidifiers, they like slowly put moisture into the air. Oh my God, and God has slowly put moisture into the city right now. Thankfully, I didn’t just dump my stuff and then go for an explore. Guys, the heavens have just opened up here in Nagasaki. Wow, this room, wow, just the amount of space just feels so good after staying in those tiny little shoebox prison cell hotel rooms like the one I was staying in Fukuoka. Even, that was like $120 or $130 a night for just like a shoebox. It’s those big cities like Fukuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, even, the value for money when staying in hotels just isn’t there. But then you come to lesser traveled places like Nagasaki, less tourists, less business travelers, I guess, and you’re getting a lot more for your money, guys, for sure. Look at the size of the TV. That is… yeah, I need to find something to play on. I’ll download like The Last Samurai or something like that. Actually, those islands, have you seen the last vlog in Sasebo? Those islands that I visited, that was in the opening scene of the Last Samurai, apparently. So, yeah, I think that’s what I’ll do. I’ll download The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise, watch it on there. Beautiful, proper bed, proper. Not two single beds joined together or anything. A proper king size mattress right here. Absolutely superb, guys. And the bathroom. Yes, a separate overhead rain shower and massive bathtub right there. That can get your full body just like this, guys. Just like this. Wow, yeah. Like, I’m not even bending my knees or anything, guys. Yeah, I could fill this with water and just be lying here, fully relaxed, legs stretched out and everything. That’s superb. That’s a nice bath. And where’s the bog? Wait a minute, where’s the bog? The bog must be a separate room. Huh. Yes, here. Oh, yeah, we’ve got a Japanese toilet right here, one of these. Oh, even it just automatically lifts the lid. I’m sure it heats the seat and everything, and you’ve got all your controls in this fancy Japanese toilet. I say fancy Japanese toilet, but there’s even in the cheap hotels, the budget hotels, they’re there as well. You’ll get the humidifier and you’ll get the fancy Japanese toilet. They’re not called fancy Japanese toilets here, they’re just called toilets. They don’t consider them fancy, and they don’t have to say they’re Japanese. They know where they’re from. My god! The weather is crazy! That’s proper rain, and that is a proper train coming in. Yeah, wow. So I was going to go on a minibar hunt, and in fact, let me check. Do they give me an empty fridge? I hate it when they fill it with their own stuff. These days, a lot of hotels, they’ll just leave the fridge empty because they know that you want… Ah, here we go. Yeah, that’s more like it. They know that you want your own stuff, especially in a country like Japan, where the convenience stores are everywhere and they’re so cheap. Of course, you’re going to go to the convenience store and get your own stuff, and you’re not gonna need their minibar, so that’s smart. That’s what I want. I just want the fully empty fridge so I can stuff that with all my own stuff, guys. So, yeah, I was gonna stuff it with my own stuff right now. I know what you’re saying, close the fridge door, close the fridge door, you guys go crazy. No, just for you guys, I’m leaving it open for now. It’s gonna get filled with your man’s own stuff, but yeah, I might have to wait for this. I can’t remember if the… Oh, in fact, I can take the umbrella. I remember there was a family mart in the train station. So it’s literally like… I think it almost, it was almost covered. So, yeah, I can easily… What is that? Oh my god! Get lost! What is that? What the heck? It just flew in! Is that a bee or what? What the heck? Whatever it is, it’s lying on its back, dead. What, it’s struggling. What is it? What the heck are you? Oh my God, it looked like it was flying at first. I didn’t even know where that came from. Uh, pshh, it almost flew in here. Let’s just shut this for now. Just let him die out and then I’ll pick him up with some tissue paper later, guys. But, yeah, my plan, my mission is to fill this minibar. This is how we do it. This is how we do it, guys. We’ve stuffed the minibar full of your man’s own goodies right here. So we do. And yeah, this fridge is stuffed mainly because it’s so small, guys. I feel like they could have put a bigger one in. It’s been quite difficult. I’ve had to, as you can see, put drinks sideways and stuff like that to try and fit everything in. Normally, I can pull the shelves out and put it up a level or something, but because of where the door is, they can’t come out. So that’s unfortunate, guys. But let’s see what we’ve got here to keep your man well fed and drank. Well drank, yeah, well drank. I’ve got the grapefruit juice, all sorts of different teas like oolong, there’s a green tea, there’s jasmine tea, we’ve got nice chocolatey nuts with the macadamias, got some chocolate. Is this banana chips? And I thought it’s dark chocolate rusks, the rusks, I’ve had them before. This is gonna be like my third packet of them. We’ve got the sando’s. Now, normally I’m eating sando’s for breakfast, but in this hotel, I get breakfast for free with the Titanium stars. But yeah, I’ve got ham cutlet, got a mango and whipped cream sando. I like those fruit sando’s, they’re very nice. Got a matcha green tea latte for later on. Some nice yogurts, blueberry, strawberry, plain, a little mochi, matcha mochi with red bean Adzuki paste inside. We’ve got the milk water. I want to try that. I’ve been seeing this in the konbini’s and been meaning to try it, but I haven’t tried it yet, so now I’m going to try it. And then, yeah, some other drinks there, my protein drink and all that, and then different chocolates. I wanted to see which one was the best, so I’ve got like one of each. I know these are good, these are the 72% Meiji cacao, and they’re nice. They’re like these, so yeah, they’re nice. You take a handful out and stuff like that when you’re going out and about, some mixed nuts, some Baby Star crisp snack ball chicken flavored. I don’t know what they are, but they look good. Got my wee gift from the hotel, and yeah, some other stuff. The miso soups. I’m always enjoying a miso soup. I’m having about one miso soup every day in my room. They’re so good, and these deep-fried eggplant ones, these are my favorite ones, the ones from Family Mart. The eggplant really rehydrates and is like, really nice. It’s almost tastes like it’s fresh. And I’ve never tried these ones before, but they actually come with real clams in a packet. Let me show you. Like that, they must open up and you put in boiling water. Those are like real clams. They go in the soup. I’ll try that later, guys. But yeah, all sorts of nice snacks and drinks to keep your man well. You see, this is the issue, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, guys. I don’t want to squash my sandwiches. It’s like that. I haven’t put the drink sideways and all that. But there’s enough to keep your man well fed and drank. I’m going to shut the fridge door later once I figure out my puzzle, guys. Don’t worry, it’s going to get closed. But let’s do the speed test. That’s always important, isn’t it, in a hotel? The Wi-Fi speed test. And this is what we’re getting, we’re getting 29 megabits down and 28 megabits up. So I mean, it’s okay, it’s not the best I’ve had on this trip so far, but I mean, it’s okay. It’s usable for your man. I would prefer higher. The last hotel had like 60 megabits upload and I would say, that was pretty good. So it’s half good. Here, it’s half good, half as good as the hotel, and sustainable anyway. But check it out, guys, the weather’s dried up. I can go out. I haven’t even made any plans because I was thinking… ah, the bug, what happened to the bug? There’s no bug. I didn’t get rid of it, so, yes, he must have recovered. He must have recovered and flew away. Well, I thought he was done for. He couldn’t get back on his feet. But yeah, I was thinking it was just going to rain the rest of the day. So I don’t know if I should get up there. It’s probably too cloudy and stuff to get a good view. Although the view is down here and it’s not cloudy here. So maybe I can get up there for sunset. Just now it is… What time is it? 4:45. So, yeah, sunset’s in like two and a half or three hours. So there’s still time for me to go somewhere. Maybe the Chinatown and eat the local noodles. There’s some local noodles that are famous here. Yeah, I don’t know, guys. In fact, since I’ve left it till 5pm to go out, that’s the time that they start serving the hors d’oeuvres. So I’m gonna check out what’s on offer here. Fried chicken, snacks, and all that. Yeah, the plan is to go to the Chinatown and eat a little noodles, but some fried chicken and pizza to whet the appetite first. It’s a good idea. So in this city, there’s no subway or anything like that, no local trains going around. There are instead trams, electric trams in this city and buses, of course, but this is… Amu Plaza, some kind of fancy mall. Should we take a look in there or should we skip it, guys? It’s just a mall, isn’t it? Looks like a fancy one, but it’s just a mall. So a ton of buses. So this is a train station, but it’s literally like the trains to other cities and all that. It’s not the train for getting around Nagasaki, but there’s an idea of what’s in that mall. Urban Research, Forever 21. Things like trendy clothes shops and all that, guys. Chinatown’s more my scene, though, I reckon. So there’s been a large Chinese presence in this city for a long time. So they’ve influenced the food as well. So that’s where you got the most famous Nagasaki local specialty is a Chinese inspired noodle dish called champon, and that is for your man is after right now if he can find his way onto a tram. Ah, right here, that red thing there. Not the boss, but the one behind it, that was a tram. And this is all under development, guys. So, according to Google Maps, I have to go on a tram down there somewhere. Yeah, well, this Mog’s bigger than I thought it was. I thought it was just that bit connected to the train station, but it is a huge mall and all that. Yeah, that’s a good thing about staying near train stations in Japan is there’s a lot going on. There’s always tons of restaurants and shops and nice artisan snacks and stuff like that, because people take them as gifts. They go somewhere and they have that last thought, I should bring a gift back to the family or something like that. So there’s tons of those kind of like little artisan cheesecakes and all that kind of thing. But I need to find my way onto the tram. And there’s one there, this is a green one, this is a green tram. That’s probably the tram that I need because that’s the direction I’m supposed to be taking, the tram. So I guess it’s… I’ve taken trams like this. They go down the middle of the road in Kolkata in India, and the way to board them is, I don’t know if it’ll be the same here, but they stop and you kind of have to run out in front of the traffic. It’s probably a different system here in Japan, I don’t think you run out in front of the traffic. But, yeah, I don’t know how to get on that thing. It just cuts down the middle of the road and I don’t see any stops or anything. I mean, I can also take the bus from the bus stop that everyone else seems to be doing, but yeah, I want to take the tram, don’t I? There’s something unique to Nagasaki that I haven’t seen in the other cities in Japan so far, so that’s the way I want to travel. Ah, I have indeed found a tram stop, so this is what it’s like here. Stop for Xi’an Bashi, Xinji, Chinatown. That’s where I’m going, I think. Three stops, according to Google Maps. Here we go. This looks packed. There’s just people standing. Everyone’s packed in, guys. It takes IC cards. It does. Good. So, it’s 150-yen flat fare, about $1. I don’t know if I need to tap the card again going off, or if that’s going to charge me twice. This must be popular in Nagasaki. Oh, yeah, see other people tapping the cards, so I guess I do it as well. 150. Okay, we’re now here in Chinatown. It looks exactly the same as anywhere else in Nagasaki, guys. There’s no red lanterns everywhere or anything like that. There is a wee river and a wee gnome. Is this a statue of a gnome? That is proper weird. Isn’t it, guys? Ah, see, a bunch of Chinese stuff over there. Yeah, I’ve got one restaurant marked on my Google Maps. It’s supposed to be good for this champon noodle dish. So I will head there. Yes, down here. This is a whole alleyway of Chinese food, guys. Probably I can get the champon at any one of these places. But I do have one marked that’s supposed to be good. It’s actually difficult to know which restaurants are good in Japan because Japanese people are really strict with their ratings. So sometimes you see a restaurant on Google and it’s got 3.5 out of 5. That would be rubbish in any other country, but it could be a good restaurant here in Japan even with that kind of score. So that’s a champon there, special champon. That’s what I’m after, guys. A big ball or something like that. I could eat it there, or I could eat it there as well, I’m sure. I do have one place marked out on the map around this corner, though. Should I go for the one that looks good or the one that… I don’t even know who recommended it to me. Somebody recommended it, or I read on a forum that it was good or something like that at some point, and it’s now on my Google Maps. Well, this is it, according to Google Maps. There’s no sign in English. The place is supposed to be called Konzanro. Let’s see if this is it. Hello. There’s Konzanro. Ah, Konzanro, okay. Hito. Oh, Ichihito. One person. Hello. One person. Nice and air-conditioned. Okay, we’ve been given a Japanese menu. Google Translate. Only the drinks are in English, yeah. Okay, I’m gonna Google translate for this one. Excuse me, champon. Ah, this is a special one, okay. Oh, one person. Ah, okay. Okay, this special champon. Orange juice. Thank you. She said Both options were for one person, so I chose the biggest one. Let’s see what we get. Orange juice. It is free water. She says I can refill it as many times as I want. It’s over there. So, not necessary to purchase a drink. I’ve never seen this one before at all. It’s in a really thick glass bottle. You don’t really get that nowadays, guys. Yep, mmm. And that’s not fizzy and it’s not fresh. I think it’s pure orange juice, but it’s like the long life kind, the preserved one. Special champon. Yeah, after this one, I don’t think I’ll be eating anything else today, guys. This is absolutely massive, wow. The toppings, there’s so many toppings. There’s, let me see, these fried pork balls, little meatballs, l ook similar to the the mavi bakso I had in Indonesia, and the rest is seafood. So that’s how they do it. It’s thick noodles. Where are the noodles? There’s so many toppings I can’t even see the noodles. Oh, yeah. Looks like the chewy type of noodles there. Watch your shrimp. What else? Looks like an egg in the middle, is it? What is this? Oh, no, it’s something. Some kind of seafood meatball, I think. You’ve got sliced pork as well. Whatever that is. I think that’s imitation crab. Yeah, there’s a whole bunch of stuff. So the origins of this dish are from 1899. Apparently, a restaurant owner around this area wanted to feed the Chinese exchange students cheaply, so he came up with this, a hearty meal with a bunch of protein-rich toppings that would fill someone up. One meal like this will fill you up, guys, I’m sure. Okay, let’s try the noodles first. Try not to burn my tongue. Yeah, they’re very much the chewy type. I like them. I like a chewy noodle. Now, the broth itself looks very creamy. Oh, wow. They’re very meaty and very creamy. Well, apparently, they make it from chicken, I can taste the chicken, chicken and pork bones, and they make the broth in a big batch and simmer it for hours and hours and hours. I feel like it’s that rich, rich, richness. That flavor is incredible. Yeah, I wonder what they put in it, apart from just that it’s like such a creamy taste, such a creamy taste that there’s all sorts of little things that I don’t know what they are. Some kind of spongy thing. Some chewy thing. I think squid. Imitation crab. Looks like some kind of seafood dumpling. Yeah, seafood meatball. And this one looks like pork meatball. Oh, wow, it’s like a little burger, a little burger patty, a little burger ball. Oh, wow, that’s proper good. And it’s all meat, it’s not like the Indonesian meatballs at all, this one’s all meat. I’m so glad I came here and not one of those random shops down the alleyway. Well, the food looks good, but you don’t know if it is good. I can tell you guys, this one really is good. Guys, I don’t think I’m going to eat for the rest of the day after this. Nice. Wow, this place is bigger than I thought it was. I just doubled the section. Oh, wow. This bowl of noodles was bigger than I thought it was going to be. But feeling good, guys, feeling good. So, including the orange juice, it was 3,190, which is about $22. Kind of expensive for noodles and a soft drink, but it was big and it was good, guys. Okay, guys, I have probably left it too late to go to that viewpoint at that mount Inasa. I think the sun is going to set in like 45 minutes or something like that. So, yeah, it’s a whole mission to get to the top. I have to get from here to the cable car station, take the cable car, that’ll be at set times, or I don’t know. I don’t know, I just know I’m not going to make the same mistake I made in Sasebo trying to get to a viewpoint with not enough time, guys. So maybe we’ll do that tomorrow. Maybe that’s how we’ll end the vlog at the top of Mount Inasa for the 360-degree view. But here, this Chinatown, there seems to be nothing going on other than food. Which is nice, but now I’m full. It’s not like I can go on a proper street food rally or anything now after that massive bowl of champon. I would like to try all the little snacks and stuff, but yeah. You know what it’s like when you’re on a full stomach, guys. A massive Boba tea right there. Yeah, nothing’s appealing to me right now, guys. I think… wow. I still don’t have a Pikachu souvenir. Do I? Oh, Choco mint ice cream. Yeah, even on a full stomach, a Choco mint ice cream does look appealing. Actually, there’s some viral ice cream bar that people tell me I need to try. What is it called? Choco Monaca or something like that. They sell them in the convenience stores. Maybe I could try that. There’s a family mart right there, in fact. Maybe I could try a Choco Monaca, or maybe I should start walking back to my hotel first. Yeah, you see how dull it is, guys. The sun is practically set. The sun’s not even out, it’s behind the clouds. I’ll leave the cable car in Mount Inasa for another time. I think I’ll start walking back to my hotel, build up a bit of an appetite, and then I’ll try that, it’s viral or it’s been popular for many years, ice Cream bar, Japanese ice Cream bar. There’s some shopping arcade here. I’ll check this out. Every city seems to have one of these. There was one in Fukuoka, I remember famously. The one in Osaka is very popular, and there was even one like this in Sasebo, which was also a very long one like this. These are nice. It feels like it’s air conditioned, all the AC is coming out of the shops and making this AC, making this air conditioned. That’s the Daiso 100-yen shop. 3Coins Plus, I think that’s the same kind of concept, 3Coins. Oh, it’s a 300-yen store, everything’s 300 yen and some are more. Some are like 2000 and stuff. But if you just see any random unticketed item, some of them have different prices, 500, 800, 300, but I think the concept is that it’s a 300-yen store. Maybe like a high-class version of Daiso, guys. Oh wow, they got snacks. It’s matcha flavored popcorn. I don’t think I can resist, guys. Even on a full stomach, they can easily tempt me to buy their matcha popcorn, for sure. Yeah, I’ll try some of that and little puddings and all that, grape and all that. Yeah, damn. Okay, so I couldn’t resist, I bought them. It’s $2 matcha popcorn, guys. That’ll be a nice, wee snack for later on. But yeah, most of the store is more than 300. It’s not really the same as Daiso, where I’d say like more than 90% of the products are 100 yen. So there’s some souvenir that I’ve been needing to buy. There’s a gaming magazine in Japan called Famitsu, and it’s really famous. I used to hear about it when I was a kid. Like the gaming magazines in the UK, they would reference Famitsu, saying, Oh, Famitsu gave it a perfect, they gave Zelda a perfect score, and they hardly ever give a perfect score, they give it 40. The way the rating system works is they’d have like four critics, four like strict video game critics, and they could each rate a game out of 10. So if all four of them rated it 10, they got 40 points and then that was like a big thing. Anything over, like 36, 36 was… it means everybody gave it 9. It was always something that was referenced, you know, Famitsu. And they would have the latest news about which video games were getting released in Japan back in the days when games got released in Japan like a year earlier, than in the U.S. and the UK. So yeah, it comes out on a Thursday. It’s a weekly magazine that comes out on a Thursday. Well, this place is huge, guys. If you want to avoid the rain, you want to avoid the heat, the midday sun, whatever, these shopping arcades are really good. This just must be a thing in Japan that every city has got one. Well, yeah, this Famitsu magazine, it comes out every Thursday and today is a Thursday. So I’d like to buy one as a souvenir. That’d be a nice thing to… A nice souvenir to take back with me. So I think I can get it in a Konbini, and if not, I’ll need to find a bookshop and get myself one of them. There is a 7-eleven at the end right here, a small one. Let’s see the magazine section here. We’ll have a look. I kind of have an idea of what the title looks like in Japanese. I kind of… What’s that? A Popeye magazine. I think it’s just the name. It’s just the name of the magazine. Yeah, the magazines here are weird, they kind of open backwards. Like, that’s the front, but opens backwards. I don’t know how that works. Yeah, let’s see if I can find the Famitsu. What is this one? It’s just a big, thick book full of, what is it, chicks in bras and swimwear and stuff. Ah, it’s sealed. Oh, it’s a comic book. You wouldn’t realize that by the front. The front, it looks like it’s going to be all… oh yeah, it’s like comic books, and in the middle, there’s some glossy hot chicks pictures. That’s funny. Is this the Famitsu? No, it looks like this. That’s the Japanese characters on the front, Famitsu. So that’s what I’m looking for. And I don’t see it. I guess magazines aren’t so popular these days. Hey bro, bro. You know? Famitsu. Famitsu? Here or no? No. Famitsu. Don Quijote? No. Yeah, Don Quijote, yeah. You don’t know? Okay, no problem. No problem, thank you so much. Arigato gozaimasu. He says, not here. I won’t get it here. Hmm, I thought I’d just get it in the convenience store. Hmm. But I don’t see it. Definitely not here. All right, I will either try a bigger convenience store or some big bookshop. But he says, I won’t get it in Don Quijote. Hmm, I’m gonna have a look anyway in the Don Quijote. No doubt I’ll come out with something. Okay, every time I come into this shop, I’ll leave with something I wasn’t planning to buy anyway. So, yeah, I mean, they’ve got so much random stuff, guys. Now here’s the video game section. I came in for a magazine and I’m gonna leave with a Nintendo Switch. With a Nintendo Switch 2. I don’t think so because they’re out of stock right now and the one in Japan is actually quite cheap, and because of that they’ve made it like region locked. You can’t use like English language games or you can’t set the console to English. It’s like locked to Japanese. But these are nice, they’re all plushies. The Donkey Kong one is badass. Look at that. That’s the most expensive one. Oh, the Bowser’s the most expensive one. Oh, wow. Yeah, I’m up for this. I’m up for, hmm, yeah, I like the Donkey Kong one. I’m up for a Donkey Kong. Okay, I’m getting the Donkey Kong, I’m also getting the Mario, I’m gonna get a Shy Guy, I’m gonna get a Goomba. And is that all? Maybe the Ghost as well, the Boo, or a Koopa, I want all of them. Should I buy all of them? Should I buy the whole lot of them, guys? I don’t think I’ve got enough room. I’ll need another suitcase if I start doing stuff like this. How much is that? Oh, that’s probably like 50 or something worth. I can get the tax taken off if I spend more than 5,500, including tax. So, yeah, I’ll save 10% on this. Yeah, I’ll get a bow as well. I’ll get a little… Oh, they’re so cute. Look at that. Yeah, okay. So, no Famitsu magazine, just like I think like $70, I think that’s like 10,000 yen’s worth. Just like $70 worth of… What are the plushies? They’re so cute. The Donkey Kong one is badass. That is really good, okay. Usually, they have a tax-free counter where you can… So, when you do your pre-immigration thing online for coming to Japan as a tourist, you can also use that same service to generate a QR code that you can use for tax-free shopping in places like this, guys. So I’ve done that. I don’t have my passport on me, so I can just use this QR code that I’ve generated. If I can find where to pay for it. I haven’t seen a cashier anywhere. Oh, wow. They do this deliberately, I think. I can’t find the cashier. So they’re making me look through everything else that they sell in this maze of a store. It’s an absolute maze. So Don Quijote is just like, they sell everything. They sell everything, and they sell it cheap. I guess I’m going back up. It says here, tax-free counter. Oh, this is where I was. This is exactly where I was. Hi, how are you? You good? Where are you from? Philippines. Filipino, okay. Shout out, Philippines. – You’re living here or travel?
– No, we’re working on a ship. Oh, you’re working on a ship? Oh, okay. You’re just stopping for one day, or? No, we’re on dry dock now. Oh, okay, so you’re here for a while? Oh, yeah, yeah. We’re just doing shopping. Oh, okay, me too. I got these Marios. How long? Oh, Nagasaki. First day in Nagasaki. Yeah, I’m just doing shopping. Stay with you, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, shout out Filipinos. Shout out. All Filipinos. Okay, okay, good. Okay, shout out, shout out. Okay, nice to see you. I need to find how to pay for this. Pay it downstairs. Really? Yeah, cashier is downstairs. You sure? Yes, yes. There’s a sign saying come this way. Where? Yeah, on the floor. You see the red circle? Red circle? – Yeah, I’ve been looking for…
– More tax free, more tax free. Yeah, I want to get tax free. But it’s you should exceed around 5,500 yen. – Yeah, this, I think like 9,000 or 10,000.
– Oh, 9,000? Yeah. It’s possible. Just follow this one. Yeah, vlogging. Yeah, vlogging, yeah. I just ate the champon. Yeah, it’s so good. Yeah, yeah. So you eat the pares. Pares. Oh, yeah, in Manila, and yeah, in near Tondo. Sri Lanka, I was scammed in Sri Lanka. Guys, I was scammed in Sri Lanka six years ago, and I’m still famous for getting scammed in Sri Lanka. But he didn’t scam me, he just followed me, that guy, he didn’t actually scam me. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay, I’m gonna find… Yeah, they do this deliberately so you have to look around more, you know, they hide it, so then you maybe see something else you want to buy, you know, like that, it’s tricky, okay. I don’t know. Oh well, there’s loads of you. Hello. – Ah, okay.
– We saw a video. – Yeah.
– Oh, nice one. All working on the ship together? Yeah, together. Okay, okay. Okay, nice one. Oh, thank you so much guys, nice to see you, okay. Following the signs for the cashier. Wow, I’ve definitely been this way already. That’s the bloody… It’s another sign. Oh my god. What is going on? It tells you to come this way, and then this way is like, ah, it’s closed. This is it here, the tax-free. It’s closed. Huh. So now what do I do? I guess, I think there’s another level up the stairs, guys. Yeah, they’re not winning. I’m not going to buy anything else. I’m not letting them make me see something else I want. Ah, that’s it, third floor is closed. So yeah, I guess I have to go down. I think there’s even a basement. I think there’s even a basement floor, guys, in this place. Look at, absolute maze. Yeah, so I’m back on the first floor and it says the tax-free counter is on the second floor. So yeah, I don’t know if I’m gonna get this tax-free or not, guys, in this queue. Me, I go. Arigatou gozaimasu. Second floor, okay. Arigatou gozaimasu, okay. So he told me to pay the original price and then go up to the second floor, he’s called somebody who’s going to give me the money back. Yeah, it was 8,700 plus 870 tax, so they’re gonna refund the… Oh, my word. They’re gonna refund the 870. Oh my God, I feel like I’ve passed this a bunch of times. So this is where he told me to come, but it’s closed. Yeah, well, I don’t know, I’ll just wait around here. Tax free. QR for text free, QR. Do you have passport? Photo. Photo? In Fukuoka. I use in Don Quijote. This, scan this, okay. So, yeah, they needed to get somebody else who understood that you can use the QR code. They’ve never used the QR code before, they wanted the physical passport. So, I’ve actually bought, in Fukuoka, I bought a bunch of sweets from, they came to more than 5,500, and I got the tax back using the QR code. So I knew that this store, you can use the QR code. It’s not every store that accepts the QR code, guys. Well, the big ones like this do so. They put it in… oh well, usually, they’ll put it in like a sealed thing that you can’t open until you leave the country. You’re supposed to take it through custom sealed. They’ve just given me a carrier bag, so that’s all good, guys. And yeah, I’m still in the hunt for the Famitsu magazine. I haven’t forgotten about that, guys. Let’s see if I can find it in another konbini. If not, then I guess I’ll find it in a bookshop tomorrow. I think there’s no bookshops open at this time, guys, but yeah, I’m definitely going to add that to my souvenir collection, which is becoming quite large, guys. There’s a fair chance I might need an extra suitcase by the time I leave Japan. Yeah, my first impressions of Nagasaki so far. This seems like a nice city, guys. This seems like a peaceful city, guys. Not a word you would associate with Nagasaki if you’ve never been here. 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And now I’m gonna go claim myself either the Famitsu magazine or that Choco bar, the Choco Monaca or whatever it’s called, guys. Okay, so I’m in Lawson’s now. Yeah, it’s just these girly magazines, these comic book with girls in them. It’s like comics and hot chicks. That’s the ones that are popular. But no Famitsu, yeah. Hmm, interesting. These are all sealed, I can’t even have a flick through them. I think it’s just because… Hmm, it’s a dude, yeah. Hahaha. I wanna have a flick through to see what’s in that. But, yeah, I’m not getting th magazine from the konbini. I think I’ll need to find the bookshop. Now, surely I can get this ice cream bar thing, or maybe I can’t even find that. Yeah, that’s not it. Hmm. It looks like this. It’s like an orange color packaging. Yeah, they don’t have it. I was told…. ah, this is it, I think. Is this it? Yeah, that’s it. Oh, it’s massive, it’s huge. Okay, I’m gonna give this a go. Okay, guys. 184 yen, that’s not bad at all. That is, yeah, less than, that’s like $1.20 or something. I’m gonna take this… my hotel’s not that far away. Hopefully I can take it to my hotel before it melts and I can try it in comfort in my room. Okay, let’s give it a blast, this chocolate monaca. 312 calories in one bar. That is quite a lot, but it is quite big. Oh, wow, it’s like a wafer. There we go. It’s like a sandwich. It looks like an ice cream sandwich. Okay, let’s give it the split down the middle, hopefully. Let’s see if I can… Oh wow, straight down the middle. That was a straight crack. And it looks like there’s some chocolate in the middle as well, guys. That looks like a layer of chocolate, mmm. Oh, wow. Mmm, that is delicious. The chocolate is all chocolatey, the ice cream’s all ice creamy, and the wafer’s all wafery, guys, so I think you can imagine how this tastes, mmm. Oh, I got Donkey Kong covered in crumbs. But this is so dense, like, half this bar could be a bar. They could sell like a half version, guys. You don’t have to eat 312 calories of this stuff, but it is nice. This is a good summertime treat, guys, after walking around, exploring the streets in the heat in the middle of summer. Okay, it’s evening time, but it’s still roasting, it’s still absolutely sweltering. But this, mmm, mmm, mmm. Sorry Donkey Kong mate, you’re absolutely covered in crumbs. I’m gonna have to clean them up now. And it’s a new day, guys. It is now Friday, 3.45pm on this gloomy, gloomy Nagasaki afternoon. It’s gloomy, but at least it’s dry. Earlier on, it was raining all day, so yeah, it’s dried up. Hopefully it stays like this for the next few hours, and I can go out and do a bit of exploring, guys. My first mission for today is to find that Japanese souvenir that’s on my mind, the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. I want to get the latest copy of that. And there’s a bookshop in the mall next to this hotel, and I searched it on Google Maps and I saw this, a picture of like a massive magazine rack. So surely, I’ll find it right there, guys. Oh, this was posted 11 years ago, so maybe not. I don’t know. I feel like magazines are becoming a kind of obsolete form of media. Most people are getting their information from the internet these days, including me. But I feel like it’d be nice to have something physical that I can just sit and browse through while I sit on the sofa. The less screen time, the better these days, guys. I’ve got a nice big sofa there. Wow, this sofa is bigger than the whole hotel rooms, than the actual hotel rooms I’ve had previously in Japan, guys. I’m really enjoying this suite. Yeah, I’m really happy with the upgrade. It’s times like this that, you know, sometimes trying to get those hotel statuses, like Titanium, requires 75 nights a year in Marriott hotels. Sometimes you’re getting towards the end of the year and you’re kind of deliberately staying in a Marriott hotel that you wouldn’t normally… you might have a better option, but you want to hit that status. But then it becomes worth it the next year when you’re getting upgrades like this. You’ve collected a lot of points, you’re getting the whole stay for free. It’s times like this, I feel it’s worth it, you know, guys. But yeah, so first mission today, get the Japanese gaming magazine. Second mission, up there somewhere, is the Peace Park. They call it the Peace Park. It’s a monument where the atomic bomb, the Hypo center, that very location, they’ve built a monument and a park around it that they’re calling the Peace Park. And there’s also an atomic bomb museum as well that I should check out while I’m here in Nagasaki, guys. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to find in a museum about an atomic bomb. Most museums, they’ll have like historical artifacts and stuff like that, right? But I don’t know what artifacts you’re going to find in a museum about a bomb. Yeah, I’ll check it out. Maybe it’s just a lot of information and stuff like that, but I’ll check that out. And I will also check out the view from the top of Mount Inasa at that observatory. And apparently you can get food when you get up there as well. There’s a way to hike up, and there’s, I can’t even see where it is, there’s some cable car. I think it goes like along this, maybe it’s on the other side of this ridge there. But yeah, hopefully I can do all that in like three and a half hours before it gets dark, guys. That’s the plan, anyway. So, first things first, mission one, Famitsu. Let’s go to the bookshop. It’s always nice entering a mall in Japan. No security, no having to go through x-rays and stuff like that that you do in other countries. So this mall is a load of fancy stuff, yeah. Ah, I thought I had found a bookshop. Well, this is… it’s like a musical instruments and stuff. And there’s some massive arcade center right here, Namco Arcade Center. Let’s check this out. You can play some drums. You can play, I don’t know what that’s called, but you can play some drums or you can play Mario Kart. This one, is that the one with the camera? There’s one with a camera and it can take a picture of your face, and then it’s like, you can see who you’re racing against. You know, four players can play at once. I think they can even link up like eight of those machines. I’ve seen them in other arcades and there’s like these machines where you can… In the UK, there’s like coin machine, coin pusher machines, where you try and push the coins. Here, it’s like snacks. Instead of gambling for money, you’re gambling for pot noodles. You’re gambling for… yeah, I think it’s like 100 yen a go. Those noodles in the 7-Eleven and stuff, they’re only like 180 or something like that. So, yeah, if you’re going to gamble, gamble for something big, like one of these things, guys. But check out all the stuff they have. I’ve got a guy livestreaming his game here. He’s not livestreaming, he’s just recording. Oh, wow, check this out. It’s a whole pac-man section. Got a massive pac-man there, old style. What is Pixel bash? Some variation of… oh wow, we’ve got some old games 1984, Dragon buster. Oh yeah, these are all the games you can play here. It’s all like… it’s classic games, yeah, from the 1980s, guys. Oh wow, look at this, oh this, an old atari Pong. Ah, okay, it’s like a physical version of Atari Pong, look at that, wow. That’s pretty cool, guys. What else is going on here? I’ve got a pocket full of coins, I’m tempted to just play a bunch of these games, but… What’s all this? It’s like photobooths for chicks. They can print out like polaroid photos of themselves and do filters and stuff, I guess. Oh, there’s… That must be popular, there’s like a bunch of them. Huh, walking Dead. Walking Dead game. Yeah, there’s loads of fun stuff here, but I’ll come back when I’m not vlogging and play here, guys. Yeah, I was trying to see if there was any of those actual gacha machines with the little eggs, with the toys in them so I could shove some coins in because I’ve got a wallet full of coins that’s actually weighing me down. I’ve been doing with getting rid of some of them, guys. But yeah, it seems this bookshop, I’m trying to find it on Google Maps, and it looks like it’s in like an annex to this main mall building, and I don’t know how to get to it from inside. I might have to go out and then back in. What a mission. Everything’s a mission, guys. Anytime I want to find just a simple thing, it turns out to be a mission, you know. I went to find a Philippines national team football top or whatever. I spent two days just trying to find that one item. But I am confident if I can find the bookshop, I’ll find what I want right now, guys. Yeah, this is apparently where the bookshop is, in this annex building. But whenever I’ve got to this section upstairs, there’s no way to get over. I must actually have to go out here and then in to the annex. Yeah, like that. Ah, level three, books, bookshop. Here it is. Metro Bookstore, Nagasaki. It’s massive. Check it out, wow. It’s huge and there’s magazines there. Yeah, I’m definitely getting it, guys. Yeah, they got so much more than in the Konbinis. This is all sports stuff. All this is like sports magazines. Baseball and all that, even I think sumo wrestling. You can get yourself a sumo wrestling magazine, golf. There’s probably a whole section of video games. That’s for kiddos, yeah. Magazines about weddings and stuff. Wow, Famitsu. New magazine is tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. Yeah. Ah, tomorrow, Famitsu. New one. Yeah, new one, yeah. Tomorrow. Okay, Saturday. Okay, okay, thank you. Okay. Wow. So I thought the Famitsu comes out on a Thursday, today’s Friday, she says the new one… she checked her computer, and the new one is tomorrow. So, yeah, there was only one other gaming magazine I’ve seen there, it was a Nintendo Dream. So I thought this must be the section, but there’s literally only two gaming, all these magazines, and there’s like a whole one for like iPads and stuff like that. Yeah, the gaming, which is literally just this, I guess gaming magazines really are obsolete. Yeah, Nintendo Dream August Edition Number 8. I mean, I could get this, I guess. It’s a thick one. Yeah, I’ll just get the Nintendo one. I’m wondering if Famitsu is like, in general, they would have like PlayStation 5, Xbox, PC games, all of that. But, yeah, I guess today I’m getting this one. And the good thing is, all these machines, you can set them to English, so they’re easy to use. Okay, so, I will put this magazine back in my room so that it doesn’t get damaged while I do more adventuring, and then I will do more adventuring, guys. One mission down, well, no, half a mission, half a mission down, guys. Oh man, Japan is like snack heaven, a whole thing, just dried fruits and nuts, snacks, snacks everywhere. Yeah, it’s like, I said, near these train stations, it’s all these like artisanal biscuits and little cakes and stuff like that. People generally, they’ll buy like a box and take it back to their family when they’ve been traveling. That kind of thing, guys, yeah. And this is what you get inside a Nintendo Dream magazine. There was a Rune factory postcard and a Mario Kart World poster. It’s actually double-sided. They’ve got a whole map of the world. I wonder what the housekeeping will think if I just stick that up, if I just stick this up on the wall right there, in this fancy hotel room, and just decorate it with a Mario Kart World poster. But yeah, I’m gonna need to use Google Translate on my phone to get any value out of this magazine. They’re telling you about all the… there’s a whole feature on this Rune Factory. This thing here? Yeah, they’re telling you about all the characters, all their stats and stuff like that, and then what else? There’s a little feature about Donkey Kong bonanza as well. Yeah, some tips and tricks for Mario Kart World. Okay, yeah, it’ll be interesting, guys. Just chilling, just chilling on my sofa here, guys. Oh, I could do that right now. I could chill here, I could just go and play the arcade games. But no, no, no, no, we’re gonna do some proper exploring in the city, guys. It’s now almost half past four. I’ve got a couple hours still, so it’s plenty of time, but I want to go make my way up to the Peace Park and Atomic Bomb Museum. And this is the tram that I want to take, but I can’t get across to the station because I have to wait for the green man. So I’m gonna miss my tram. Come on, turn green, green, green, green, green, green. It’s not happening for me. What a pain. What a pain this is. And here’s another tram, and it still isn’t green. I’ve missed the classic one and the modern one. It’s taking ages. Oh, here we go. Oh, maybe I could catch it. Maybe I could catch it, guys, if I run. Okay, so this atomic bomb museum has its own tram station right here. And I believe the sign is showing the way. Nothing in English there, but yeah, it’s up this way, according to Google Maps. And everywhere you go in this city, it seems that you’re going up or down a hill. It kind of reminds me of Istanbul. Istanbul was like this. Strong legs required if you want to explore the city by foot. Ah, there’s a bunch of things. So there’s the Atomic Bomb Museum straight ahead, there’s a peace hall, maybe that’s in there, a Nagasaki City Museum of history, like a general museum, and a peace memorial hall. I’ll go to the Atomic Bomb Museum right now, guys. And this is the point in the video where the views start dropping off. Something that I learned early on in vlogging is, if you go into a museum, you lose your audience, like you lose like 70% of people just exit the video at that point. And you can see on the graph retention time for your videos so you can see where you’re losing your audience, and yeah, even mentioning a museum seems to be the thing that does it, guys. But I’m not going to bore you. I’m not going to do like a one-hour tour of the museum or whatever. I’m just going to show you guys anything that I think is interesting. And their massive Chinese restaurant. That whole thing is a Chinese restaurant, really, wow. Yeah, so like I said, a lot of Chinese influence in Nagasaki, and obviously, the Portuguese and Dutch, they were here. If you’ve read the book Shogun, or watched the original or new TV series, you’ll know about that. Ah, guys, I think I’m too late. The museum’s only open till half past five and last entry is five, and it’s now five minutes past five, May to August. What the heck? On Google Maps, it said 18:30. Yeah, it says 18:30 there in Japanese and in English. Oh, May and August, oh, that’s now. Yeah, 18:30. So yeah, cool. Thankfully, I got here before the end of August. I can actually get in. Oh man, that was almost a disaster, guys. That’s the thing when you leave things late, like your man, you leave things late, things like this close early. So, yeah, see how much it costs to get in here. Okay, so only 200 yen. Money first, okay. I think it doesn’t matter. This, what, what? This was found in a house 800 meters away from the hypocenter of the blast. And the hand stopped at 11:02, the exact moment of the explosion. So that’s it, right there. Our clock was on someone’s wall, just ticking away, and then… And that’s the hypocenter there. So we are about here somewhere, I think, and Nagasaki train station and all that’s like down here somewhere. That’s where I just came from. So I think it wasn’t in the main city, or it’s like very narrow, so it was in this kind of like valley area that was mostly destroyed and probably this part not so much. And this fire tower here, this was 250 meters away from the blast, but it was still powerful enough that from the base it just bent all the metal like that. And these are the ruins so far. Cathedral, that’s pieces of the stained-glass window that was near the blast. Oh, wow, is this actual pieces of the actual cathedral that they’ve rebuilt here in the museum? Well, that’s incredible. The wall of Urakami Cathedral. Yeah, they’ve brought all the bricks here. Ah, they’re saying it’s reproduced. I’m showing you the part of the wall of the cathedral that they’ve reproduced here. So that’s a recreation of how to blast with a bloodbath in that valley. This is a recreation of what the bomb would have looked like. Fat Man, it was called. The one that hit Nagasaki, 4.5 tons. And they’re explaining how the explosion occurs. And they’ve got this kind of cross section. Here, we can see kind of how the internals of this would have looked like. Festive explosives, slow explosives, a tamper inside the plutonium. Just a small amount of plutonium, wow, can cause a massive amount of destruction. And this is a Buddhist robe. A Buddhist priest was 3.5 kilometers away from the blast and the heat burned holes in his robe from that distance. Can you imagine, guys? Can you imagine? Somebody who was 1.3 kilometers away right there. Yeah, 1.2 kilometers away, a worker. Just can you imagine what is it like standing 1.2 kilometers away and that happens. Yeah, it’s the scars from the burning. You can be so far away from the blast and still end up like that. And this display is showing the damages caused by the radiation, not just initially during the blast, but afterwards, 1945 onwards, it’s showing you the kind of day 20, day 30, there was a massive spike and subcontinuous hemorrhages. So just under their skin just started bleeding, and yeah, like 20, 30 days later people lost their hair. And then going forward, 10 years later, people get cataracts in their eyes, 20 years later getting leukemia, 25 years later getting cancer, even up to the 1985, massive rates of lung cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer from people that were around this area in the years and decades after the destruction. Wow. And as we exit, there is, of course, a gift shop, even at a museum, about tragedy. There is a gift shop. Yeah, it’s all things about peace, though. Peace, peace, peace, peace, rather than, you know, t-shirts with atomic bombs on them or anything like that. Ah, and it looks like, well, I’ve been in here outdoors, it’s been raining. Oh well, I probably had perfect timing, guys. It was dry when I went in, it rained, and it was dry when I came out. And this is it, the monument that marks the hypocenter of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki. So right at this point, right here, 500 meters above the ground, is where the explosion would have happened. Literally right here. This is the exact point it would have exploded, guys. And now it’s just this, it’s just this monument. Oh, wow. Yeah, so kind of feeling sad after, it kind of put me in a bad mood, that museum, kind of reminds me of when I went to the killing fields in Phnom Penh and all that, the prison that they had set up and all that, it’s like, yeah, you’re never going to be in a good mood after visiting a site like that and learning about the tragic events. But yeah, this atomic bomb, guys, the Americans, you can’t imagine a country just these days just deciding, oh, we’re going to just nuke a whole city, just so many civilians that are, yeah, just the civilian casualties. But back in those days, I guess people thought differently when it comes to that, eh, the civilians. But yeah, America, their justification for using atomic bomb was that it was the only way they could get the Japanese to surrender back then, towards the end of World War II. They were fighting Japan in the Battle of Okinawa on Okinawa Island, and just to overtake that island, they lost tens of thousands of American soldiers. The thing is with the Japanese, they just don’t surrender, they would just fight till the last man. So Americans would lose a lot of soldiers like that, even just fighting for one island. So they thought to take over the whole of Japan, it’d be like a lengthy, lengthy battle, they’d probably lose hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to do it. And they decided the easiest way to make them surrender was just to set off an atomic bomb. And they did that, and they still didn’t, the Japanese still didn’t surrender. Now we’re talking about the bomb three days earlier in Hiroshima, and then three days after that, they did the Nagasaki one, and that was enough. They were worried, oh, the next one’s going to be on Tokyo or whatever. There’s going to be mass panic throughout the country. Then they surrendered. Yeah, but I think even Americans then, they didn’t realize the sheer power. They realized they were dealing with something powerful, a powerful weapon, but I don’t think they realized the sheer power and the aftermath, the decades of aftermath. So yeah, I mean, it’s good that these events have been well studied over the years, enough that nobody’s thought to use nuclear clear weapons again since then. Hopefully it stays like that, guys. Hopefully it stays like that. No more of this. Ah, and this is the same cathedral that we’ve seen in the museum, but this part hasn’t been restored. That’s the actual piece, the actual bricks, but they’re saying it was relocated. This was actually 500 meters away from the blast, relocated portion they’ve brought that here to stand beside the memorial. But yeah, 500 meters away, cathedral blown to bits by the atomic bomb, guys. And this is the actual Peace Park. And here, I don’t know if there’s anything interesting in here or not, but it’s just like a green area to walk around. Ah, it’s a fountain, the fountain of peace that everyone seems to be fascinated by. Oh, it’s like a tour group right here. A bunch of statues. The one at the end looks like some kind of Greek god or something. What is that? The statue piece? I don’t know. Yeah, I was almost correct. It’s called the Peace Statue, not the Statue of Peace, but the Peace Statue, guys. So that’s it from here, the Atomic Bomb Museum and the Peace Park. The park’s just really just a nice place to hang out, but maybe not in the summer when it’s absolutely rusting, guys. It looks gloomy, it looks cloudy, it looks cold, probably to you, guys, but it’s that sticky, humid, nasty weather, guys. So I think what your man’s up for right now is another ice cream treat from one of the konbini’s. That sounds good to me. What about this? Coolish. It’s like some kind of pouch, ice cream drink kind of thing. Hmm. Okay, let’s try this. I might need to let it thaw out a bit first, because I think it’s a… well, it’s obviously a drink. Well, at least this one, after I’ve finished eating it, I can just put the lid back on and put it in my bag without making a mess. Normally, when I’m eating things, I’ve got the litter and nowhere to put it, but this actually looks like a convenient one to munch while I walk down the street. Okay, I’ve thawed it out. Oh, let’s give it a… Ah, it’s like a… It’s like vanilla ice cream, but the texture is like shaved ice kind of thing. The texture is like a slushy, but the taste is like, hmm, maybe a bit of condensed milk in there as well. It’s like soft-served ice cream with condensed milk and ice. Coolish, guys, Coolish. Mmm, summertime snacks, guys. Summertime snacks here in Japan. Now I gotta find myself a tram stop. That whole way, I didn’t see a tram stop. In fact, I don’t see any tram lines. I’m probably in the wrong street, but I need to make my way back down to where I started so I can get to the Ropeway station and up Mount Inasa right there, before sunset. I’ve got like an hour. The Ropeway, 500 meters this way. Well, oh, no. Is this the Ropeway? Ah, no, I guess it’s some shrine or something. The Ropeway is here on the map. Ah, there’s the arrow. Wow, I thought it was going to be closed there for a second, and then I’d have to hike up, and it would be a repeat of Sasebo when I’m rushing, hiking one hour trying to beat the sunset. But no, this is open until 9am till 10pm, and that’s apparently the view that you get in the evening when everything’s all lit up, yeah. This is nice, isn’t it? Very cute, guys. Ah, this is the place where I was walking up the steps, or wanted to walk up the steps, and it was closed off down there. So it looks like it’s built beside a temple, yeah. It says here Nagasaki Ropeway. Wonder how much it costs, guys. Do you want to take a guess? I’ll take a guess at maybe a thousand, a thousand yen, like that one way. We’ll see. That’d be like $7. What do you guys think? In fact, I see the prices there, 1250 round trip. 6.45 is the next one, okay. Okay. I’m not sure how often they are, but it’s now 6:30, so the next one’s in 15 minutes, 6:45, so I don’t know if they’re every 15 minutes or every half an hour. Maybe I just missed one, that’s why I’m the only man here. It looks like more are coming. And over here, they’ve got a gacha machine, a Kyushu Railways gacha machine, 500 yen. You can get like an old-style train or even a Shinkansen, guys. That’s nice. So I’ve got a thousand yen in coins here. I’m gonna get two of them, two of these things. Let’s see what I get for the first one. I want the Shinkansen and I want the old-style train. That’s what I want. Let’s see what we get. Let’s see. Oh, I got… oh, I think it’s like just a modern train. It’s not Shinkansen. I think it’s just like a modern train. Yeah, there’s info, but it’s in Japanese, and I have to use a translate on this. But that’s what I got right there. Okay, one more. Let’s see. As long as I don’t get a duplicate, I’ll be happy. Nothing worse than getting a duplicate. It’s not a duplicate. It is… Oh, it’s some kind of old-style train. Not the old, old one, but some kind of… This one right here, number one. So I got number one and two out of six, guys, this one. That’s the timings there, from 9 till 6p.m, it’s every 20 minutes, and from 6 p.m. till 10 p.m, it’s every 15 minutes on the hour, 00:15, 30, 45. So I literally got here like 30 seconds too late, so I probably got the worst possible time that could have arrived, but hey, I got to play the gacha machine, so it’s all good. Oh wow, are we all getting in this one? I thought it would be multiple ones. So it looks like all of us are getting in this one right here. Oh, wow. What a view we’re getting already, guys. Yeah, you can see just how hilly this city is. It’s all in a valley there, and then we’re just surrounded by hills. It’s nice, guys. Okay, so this is the observation deck, I guess. We’re gonna get the best view. We’re gonna get even higher, it looks like. And here is the observation deck, guys. So you can actually drive all the way up here if you’ve got a car. But I feel like the Ropeway is an experience, an experience you can’t miss. Now I want to get the experience of this viewpoint, which I don’t think you have to pay for. So, I mean, if you came up here on your own, without the rope way, you would have a free experience, guys. Wow, okay. And I heard there was a restaurant here. I was looking forward to getting a nice view and some food. I don’t know if they meant this right here. The coffee shop, which is closed. I don’t hear anything going on up there. We’ll see. Ah, yeah. I think this is the restaurant in here, but it’s also closed. Yeah, that’s the restaurant, it says, closed. And the actual viewpoint, you actually have to go up some spiral stairs here to get the very best view of Nagasaki, guys. Wow, this whole area is undeveloped, still trees. And here we are, guys, the top of Mount Inasa. Are you ready for the 360-degree panoramic view? Let’s do it, guys, let’s do a 360 here. Well, yeah, we’ll do the full 360, guys. It is a gloomy day, but it’s a clear day, we can see everything from here. And it seems that every city I’ve been to in Japan, there’s a big cruise ship. There was one in Fukuoka, there’s one in Sasebo, there’s one here as well. Seems like that’s a popular thing to do, take a cruise, you can do like 10-11 days and stop at a different place in Japan every day. Travel overnight while the ship relocates, guys. But this is stuff I haven’t seen before. I’m staying… well, that’s a train station down there, so I’m staying there and looking up here. So this is kind of the view I’ve been getting from my balcony, I can see the cruise ship. But all this, I’ve had to come up here to see all this stuff on this side, which isn’t much. Like I said, all this is completely undeveloped, undeveloped land. But there’s something going on down there. There’s some big buildings, look like big condominiums or something in the distance there. And there’s lots of wee islands. They seem to have buildings on them connected by bridges, yeah. Wow, beautiful. Anything over here? Oh yeah, just a random football pitch or baseball stadium or something there. Yeah, I think it’s like a baseball stadium or something just randomly there on this side, guys. Well, that is the 360-panoramic tour of Mount Inasa in Nagasaki city. So it’s now 15 minutes to sunset and this is supposed to be really beautiful, all lit up in the dark. But I’m gonna head on down, down to Chinatown, in fact. I’m up for a scran and the restaurant here is closed. They might open it actually in the evening, but yeah, I think it’s better if I get the sunset view while I go down the cable car. Because if I time it like everyone else and wait up there, more and more people just keep coming and coming. If I time it like everyone else and I’m there for when it gets dark, well, everybody’s going to bounce at the same time, and there’s only one cable car. You’ll probably be waiting for multiple trips. You’ll probably wait for like an hour or an hour and a half to get back down. So, like usual, I’m doing the opposite of what other people are doing. Usually, that’s a good thing to do in life. Yeah, it still says it’s closed, the restaurant. A good way to live your life is to do things the opposite way from everyone else, guys. So, that’s what your man’s doing right now. They’re all coming up and I’m going down, down to Chinatown. Ah, I’m just seeing there’s two different things. There’s a slop car and a ropeway. Are these… Yeah, they’re different things. That’s like a monorail. I didn’t even know about that. There’s a slop car that goes up here. I literally just thought it was the the ropeway. Huh. I wonder if I can use the slop car going down. I think I have to use the same ticket. Ropeway, okay. Can I just use this or no? Okay, oky. Yeah, I have to use the rockway, guys. That’s the slope car track there. It actually goes probably not to where I want to go. I want to go down the Rockway and then go that way to Chinatown. That probably takes you to the other side, actually. Just as well, he wouldn’t let me on that. I can see it. I can see the little train cabin thing there coming up, okay. Looks like I’m the only one going down. That’s good. Like I said, the opposite of everyone else. I might even get a cable car to myself, you never know. Right here? Okay. Yeah, the next car is scheduled for 7:30, and 7:30 is sunset time, so. I mean, surely I’ve timed this perfectly. If I get my own car and I get it at the exact sunset time, I think I’ve done well. Ah, no, guys. I’ve just seen behind me. I’m not alone anymore. The ones coming up right now are full. They’re absolutely packed. Okay, okay, get the best view. Check it out, guys. The beautiful sunset over this beautiful city, Nagasaki. Wow. Yeah, I think I did the right thing, for sure, leaving at this time. If I’d left 15 minutes earlier, I wouldn’t be getting this stunning view, would I? The sun, it was just kind of normal, like 15 minutes ago, while I was standing waiting, and now, it’s all this red sky, beautiful sunset. And if I’d left it a little bit later, 15 minutes later, maybe I’d still have a nice sunset, maybe not, maybe I’d be stuck in a long queue coming back. I was first in the queue, so I’m getting the prime standing position on the cabin. There’s about 20 people stuffed in here, but your man is in the prime position. So check this out, guys, and now I’m gonna head down to Chinatown, where it seems that most of the restaurants are closed after 8pm. I mean, checking Google Maps, nothing much seems to be open in the late evening. I guess you have to come here in the morning, afternoon, or early evening. This looks like a noodle shop. I’ve already had the chump one, but that one is open, but it looks kind of tiny and a bit awkward to vlog in, to be honest, guys. And then this one, is it open? This one is open, hmm. Okay, let me have a look. Yeah, it’s mostly the noodles and all that, but I see things like this. Looks like the boiled chicken and maybe sliced pork or something like that. That looks interesting as well. Looks like some kind of like strips of beef or something like that. Yeah, I reckon I’m up for this. It looks like I’m going to get the restaurant to myself as well. Let’s see if they really are still open. Open? So they have an English menu. That’s good. No Google Translate needed. So they’ve got a bunch of like Shark’s Fin Soup and all that. And this is interesting, Sara Udon. And it’s some, another local dish, like champon, but it’s different. They fry the noodles. So I’m gonna get that. Fried noodles, one. Yeah, fried noodles, and this dessert, almond curd in syrup and orange juice, please. Yes, yes, this one. Thank you. Okay, let’s see how that went down. Got some big, juicy shrimps, looks like some pork there, a bunch of veggies, and then the noodles, which it’s called Sara Udon, but these are not actually noodles. They’re not actually Udon noodles. They’re just kind of the same noodles that you get in the champon, guys. There’s quite a few shrimp in there, and the big, juicy ones. Mmm, sliced pork, mmm. Oh yeah, mmm. It’s all thin and nice and tasty, super tasty. Like the kind of pork that you get in a… It’s like the chat so that you get in ramen, but it’s not chat so, but it tastes like that. Oh, wow, yum. And the noodles themselves, so you could choose to get these in a soup or just on a plate. I think the regular way is on the plate, so that’s how I got them. Yeah, they’re all chewy, they’re nice, they’re like the… they’re just like the noodles I had with the champon yesterday. Really nice texture. Yeah, they’re all like oily and full of flavor. It’s like real comfort food, this guys, it’s comfort food for your man. Cleared the plate, literally, literally cleared the plate, every last noodle, and I saved the shrimp for the last. I’m done. I’ve got this dessert, which I don’t know what it is. It was almond curd or something. It looks nice. It’s all wee jellies. Yeah, it’s just jelly and some kind of very light syrup. And some kind of fruit. Yeah, there’s mango and melon, I think. I’m sure it was called Almond curd or something. There’s no almonds and there’s no curd, so I don’t know where that name comes from. It’s just a jelly pudding, in my opinion. Two plates cleared. And one glass cleared. Yum, yum. Two glasses cleared. 50 Disca? No, thank you. [Japanese] 50 Disca. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think they’re closing up now. They were asking me if I had any last orders. So that’s nice. I got one of the last remaining restaurants that were open here in Chinatown. And now I’m gonna head back to my hotel. And now I’m gonna get a steamed bun. I’ve just noticed this, they have steamed buns. Ah. Hmm. What it is? I need to us Translate. You speak English? Ah, what is inside? Meat, pork meat. Pork meat, too. Ah, both are pork. Ah, okay, I want this one. – This one?
– Yes, just one, please. It’s 350. 350 yen, okay. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, got myself a wee pork bun, after all. I wasn’t expecting that. I don’t know where I go to eat this, where I sit down. Can’t really walk around and eat something messy like this. Oh, there are quite a few. There are quite a few restaurants open down this street. Yeah, they’re selling some kind of fried thing. Looks like fried bread, like a fried sandwich. That looks good. Ah, there’s loads of stuff available. I could have went on a wee rally, but I think after this will be kind of full, guys. Maybe I’ll come back another day when I’m not vlogging and munch some other stuff here. Ah, there’s… I was going to say, there’s a bench here for me to sit down on, but it’s completely soaked. Does that come from… Yeah, maybe somebody watering the trees or something. They’ve watered the bloody bench. All right, I found somewhere that I can chill at. Seat and camera station. Let’s try this pork bun, which has gotten quite messy while I’ve been walking with it. So saucy already, guys, but I haven’t had this type of bun. I’ve had the ones that are like the meats in the center and all this. I haven’t had the one that’s like a sandwich before ever. So this will be interesting. Oh, it’s the same kind of texture of the bread. That sticky, kind of sticky bread. Hmm, mmm. It’s that super, that super tasty, seasoned. It’s like bacon, but it’s pork. It’s like that red pork that you get in like a Chinese dish. Ever had that? It’s kind of like red pork. That’s what it’s like in the middle, and the bread is like sponge, mmm. See how thick the… that’s the layer of pork right there. It’s like thick bacon, wow. And the sauce is like a kind of sweet Chinese barbecue sauce. That’s the only way I could describe it, but super, super tasty. There’s a 7-Eleven right there that I can dispose of the wrapper, even go to the bathroom and wash my hands, guys, that’s a good old 7-Eleven. I’m actually gonna get myself an ice cream to take back for the road, I’m gonna walk back. That’s how your man likes to do it. After a big meal, a half an hour walk back to the hotel is good. You don’t want to be just having a heavy meal and then just lying down. That feels terrible. But yeah, I’m gonna wash my hands and stuff in here, and when I get near my hotel, I’ll dive into one of these konbinis and try another ice cream snack that I’ve not tried before. We’ve got a Japanese Starbucks here. Is everybody on their laptops like in some other countries? No, they’re not. They’re doing what they should be doing, enjoying their coffee and their snacks and stuff like that. I don’t see anybody, the whole restaurant, the whole restaurant, I don’t see anybody being a digital gonad, guys. It’s a digital gonad, that’s just another reason to love Japan, eh? No digital gonads, yes. And the digital gonads from the west, it’s too expensive for them to come and chill here for months, so you don’t get them either. Right, let’s jump into the family mart and find another ice cream treat to try out. Now this one, the freezer is very small compared to other shops. Sticking my head in, guys. Oh, that feels good after that walk. That’s the one that I tried last night. That was good. I think it says Choco Monaca or something. It’s just the Haagen-Dazs. I want something local, guy, like. What the heck is this? That was an alien. It’s just a… hmm, I don’t know what that would be. That’s the one I tried earlier. And this one, is this coffee or something? Yeah, I don’t think I would like that. No, it’s little squishy bottles. And this one, salted caramel ice, but that looks good. And this one over here. Oh, this looks good as well. Looks like it’s covered in like peanuts or something like that. Like a vanilla bar covered in peanuts. I don’t know what it’s called. I don’t know what that says. You guys, let me know if you know. Just a small 228 calorie ice cream chocolate bar. Nice. How does this work? Ah, help me solve this puzzle, guys. There’s only three of them, so it can’t… Ah, here we go. There we go. All right, 162 yen, so $1 for this. I don’t know. In America, can you still go into like a 7-Eleven or something and get like an full ice cream bar for one dollar? I know in the UK, what would that be like? 70 pence or something like that. No chance, no chance. Maybe in a big supermarket like a Tesco or something, if you buy a multi-pack or something, you’ll get them for like that price. But just going into your local corner shop in your neighborhood or whatever, no chance you’re not getting something like that for 70 pence, are you, guys? Where did you go today? To Mount Inasa. – Oh, Mount Inasa.
– Yes. How was that? It’s very nice. Oh yeah? You have been also? – Yeah, of course I have.
– Many times? – Many times, yeah.
– Yeah, okay. It was nice up there. It’s very beautiful. Yeah, Nagasaki looks beautiful from that viewpoint. – Oh, yeah?
– Yeah, yeah, thank you. I’m glad that you can see. Thank you very much. And my room is nice and cold. I left the AC on by mistake when I went out, guys, by mistake. You’re so selfish. By mistake, guys, by mistake. You’re so selfish, you leave the bridge open, you leave the AC on. Shut up, Greta! Shut up! I’m gonna, oh, in my nice cold room, eat this nice cold. I don’t even know what it’s called. I’ll try and Google translate it first. Huh, it keeps changing the translation when I move the camera around. I don’t know if just the different lighting is making the characters look different. But it says, flack Mont Blanc, or lack Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc. That’s what it is. It’s a Mont Blanc. I guess that’s Mont Blanc there the mountain. Yeah, the White mountain. Let’s give it a go. In fact, I’ve got a friend to join me. Which one will I get? All right, I’m gonna get him. I’ll get Boo. I’ll get Boo to join me for the Mont Blanc. I’ve got the Blanc Mario character right there, the bow. I’ll leave Donkey Kong alone, I covered him in crumbs yesterday, didn’t I? All right, let’s pop this open. Oh, there’s… oh my god, yeah, see my nice clean… well, it’s not clean, I didn’t get my room clean today because I was in my room for so late. Hang on, hang on. All right, so I’ve got a bib here. I’ve got, should I use this as a bib? It’s my bloody bath towel. I’ve got another one. There’s another clean one there. I’ve got a bib, guys. I’ve got the table cleaned, I’ve washed my hands, I’ve got my little Boo. I’m gonna just put him to the side so I don’t crumb all over him, but this is very crummy. So this isn’t one you could walk down the street and eat. I got a lot of hassle from you guys said, Oh, in Japan, you’re not allowed to walk down the street and eat. You are, you’re just not allowed to make a mess. So something simple that you can put in your mouth and not get crumbs everywhere, nobody cares. Japanese people, especially, they don’t care. It’s only Westerners who’ve probably never even been to Japan who seem to care. See, oh my god, this is… But things like this, guys, things like this, you can’t eat this walking down the street. They want to keep the streets nice and clean. They want bugs and cockroaches, and all that, you know. You don’t want to step into somebody’s dirtiness or whatever. So this, I’m glad I chose to bring this back to the hotel room, guys. I’m trying to figure out what it is. I think it’s like peanuts and something else that’s on it, but let’s give it a bite. Oh, wow, oh, it’s all sugary. Yeah, it’s like sugary biscuit. It’s like sugary biscuit crumbs, and then there are tiny little pieces of peanut in there. I can taste the peanut as well, and then I can taste the vanilla ice cream, and that’s underneath the… Oh, wow, underneath the crumbs is the most delicious layer of crispy frozen chocolate, guys. That is a… oh my god, these snacks are so, so good, mmm. I’m just trying to get more of the filling in my mouth than on the table, guys. But this is superb. Summertime in Japan, just every day going on adventures, getting all hot, and then ending the day with a nice ice cream, guys. Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. Life is good, life is good. And I hope you thought this vlog was good. If you did, it deserves a thumbs up, guys. So if you watched all the way through the video without even giving it the thumbs up, now is your chance. Before the vlog ends, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven’t already. If you’ve already subscribed, hit the notification bell so that you get notified when I upload a vlog. Because YouTube, it doesn’t seem to matter if you subscribe to somebody these days on YouTube, it’s like they just show you what they want to show you rather than what you tell them you want to see. I noticed that there’s channels that I’ve subscribed to, and I think, wait a minute, is that guy uploading to any time in the last six months? I haven’t seen that upload. And then I check his channel and he’s uploaded like 20 videos that I’ve missed. It’s just YouTube just suggest them to me. They were suggesting all these other random people and their channels to me, but not the people that I subscribe to. So, yeah, you got to do an additional step and hit the notification bell so that you get a notification pop up when I upload a video, guys, if you want to make sure that you see the videos. And, of course, I did return to the bookshop to complete my mission, to get the weekly Famitsu magazine, guys. This week’s edition featuring Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Bonanza, the latest AAA release on the Nintendo Switch 2, which I still don’t own. I still don’t own a Nintendo Switch 2. I’m waiting to get the non-Japanese version, so I guess I’ll wait until this trip is finished. But that’s what a Famitsu Magazine looks like. It’s about 680 yen, so yeah, about $4.50, something like that, and yeah, that’s what it looks like. You got some like stats of like… they actually have like a chart of like, yeah, top selling game is Mario Kart World, and yeah, chart of different games in Japan. Nintendo’s killing it right now. In the top five or four of them are Switch or Switch 2 games. Yeah, the Zelda Switch 2 edition is number five, and these Switch 1 games. And yeah, the same game on PS5 sells less than on Switch here. Yeah, I think they even have like console sales data as well. No, that’s for that specific game. Wait for what formats it’s sold on. Switch 2, Switch Lite, and then Xbox. It gets hardly anything. It’s like 100 sales or something during the week. Yeah, so, yeah, another souvenir to add to my collection, guys. Add to my Japanese souvenir collection.

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I visited Nagasaki, which is globally known as being second city in the world to be targeted by an atomic bomb, after Hiroshima. That tragic event on August 9, 1945, left a permanent mark on the city’s identity in the eyes of the world.

But how is the city 80 years later? I took a train ride there from Sasebo to find out.

I stayed at the Nagasaki Marriott Hotel which is right next to Nagasaki Station. There’s always plenty of hotel options next to the major train stations in Japan, and it makes it very convenient when travelling from city to city. There’s usually a big mall as well, so it’s a comfortable area to stay in, other than the crowds of commuters.

The Marriott Bonvoy ‘Titanium Elite’ status came in clutch, as I was upgraded from the most basic room to a corner suite, with a balcony looking out to Mount Inasa. Titanium isn’t an easy status to reach, as it required 75 nights stay in Marriott brand hotels in a calendar year, but the benefits are worth it when you get really nice upgrades like this.

After stocking the hotel minibar with yer man’s own munchies, I took a local tram down to Chinatown. The Shinchi Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in Japan and has been there for over 400 years.

The famous food in the area is a noodles dish called Champon.

Nagasaki Champon is a hearty noodle dish made by stir-frying pork, seafood, and vegetables, then simmering them in a rich, milky pork and chicken bone broth, and pouring it all over thick, chewy noodles. It was created in the late 1800s to feed hungry Chinese students in Nagasaki and has since become the city’s signature comfort food.

Almost every restaurant in Chinatown sells Champon, but I specifically went to one that was recommended to me, called ‘Kozanrochukagaishinkan’ – an absolute mouthful a name, and their Champon was an absolute stomach-ful of noodles. It was a huge and delicious portion.

Nearby the Chinatown is the Hamanomachi Shopping Arcade, which is one of those long roof-covered shopping streets that every city in Japan seems to have. I did some souvenir shopping there, at the Donki shop, buying a badass Donkey Kong plushie, as well as Mario and friends.

By the time I walked back to my hotel I had worked up an appetite for dessert, and tried a famous local ice cream bar called Choco Monaka Jumbo. It’s a huge wafter, stuffed with vanilla ice cream that has a crispy chocolate layer in the middle. Yum yum, it was really tasty but an absolutely huge portion.

The next day I visited the Atomic Bomb Museum that’s been created to tell the story of the tragedy of 1945, as well as the aftermath in the decades that followed. There’s also a monument that marks the very hypocenter of the blast, and a Peace Park which is a nice, quiet place to walk and reflect on what you saw in the museum.

After visiting that area I visited the nearby 7-Eleven to buy another Japanese sweet treat from the freezer section. This time I got an ice cream drink called Coolish, that was very sweet and creamy, and the perfect refreshment for an afternoon walking around in roasting hot weather.

I then took the ropeway, which is a cable car that goes to the top of Mount Inasa, which has one of the best nighttime views in all of Japan, or even the world. I decided not to stay at the observatory all the way until sunset, as I thought there would be a massive queue coming back, and the ropeway only has 1 car ever 15 minutes.

Instead I timed it right to enjoy the sunset while on the ropeway going back down, and I think I made a pretty good decision.

From there I went back to Chinatown for more munching. I tried Sara Udon which is like Champon but without soup. I was pretty full from the huge portion, but somehow still had room for a steamed Chinese pork bun further down the street.

And for dessert, yet another ice cream snack from the konbini. This time I tried a Mont Blanc bar, and yet again I thought it was delicious. They all are!

0:00 Scenic Train to Nagasaki
4:12 Nagasaki Marriott Hotel
16:27 Yer Man’s Own Minibar
24:27 Local Tram to Chinatown
28:22 Nagasaki Champon Noodles
37:17 Hamanomachi Shopping Arcade
43:22 Don Quijote Souvenirs
56:38 Choco Monaka Jumbo
1:02:54 Namco Bandai Video Game Arcade
1:06:57 Japanese Gaming Magazine
1:15:29 Atomic Bomb Museum
1:20:56 Atomic Bomb Hypocenter
1:25:52 COOLish Ice Cream Drink
1:29:06 Ropeway to Mount Inasa
1:33:25 Mount Inasa Observatory
1:41:51 Sara Udon Noodles
1:46:23 Chinese Pork Bun
1:50:44 Mont Blanc Ice Cream Bar
1:58:50 Famitsu Magazine

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