City of Nagasaki

While visiting me here in Japan, Aunt Linda wanted to go and see the atomic bomb museum and Peace Park, the site of the 1945 atomic bomb dropping. We caught a bus, then a streetcar and working together found what we were looking for. The day was kind of gloomy and drizzly but we made the best of it. This was a very well created park. The Peace Statue among the monuments donated by various countries were all placed on top of this hill next to the hypocenter "Ground Zero". The courtyard of the hypocenter had three monuments erected in a huge open coutyard. The museum was half about what happened with a bunch of melted debris and half on the effects of nuclear weapons, the nuclear arms race, and where we stand today. We didn't receive as many awkward glances other than an older man on the streetcar, whose english was so-so said, "Why are you visitng it, YOU droppped the bomb on us?!" Luckily we got off before I had time to think of a good enough answer.