nagasaki

Long before I ever visited, I was captivated by images of Hashima Island. Known as “Gunkanjima” (Battleship Island), it looked like something out of a movie – a ghost city of concrete towers abandoned to the sea. Visiting in…

After my trip to Hiroshima and Itsukushima, I travelled with the Kamome Shinkansen to Nagasaki. I left Nagasaki with that rare feeling you only get from cities that reveal themselves slowly, through friendly streetcar drivers, grandma-run lunch counters, and…