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On the second day of our 6th anniversary trip, we went siteseeing in Nagasaki.  The first stop on our tour was Nagasaki Peace Park.

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While siteseeing in Nagasaki, we had a wonderful local food – Nagasaki Kakuni Manju.  Basically, it is a bun with a very fatty chunk of BBQ’d pork inside.  It was around 350 yen, but it was worth it.  Yummy!

While riding the bus on the way to the airport, some people were eating them.  I was envious!  In the airport, we each had another one!  Next time you are visiting Nagasaki, please get me a souvenir.  <hint hint>

For our 6th wedding anniversary, we decided that we’d travel domestically because there are many places in Japan that we haven’t been to yet.  We chose to take a one-night trip to Nagasaki – in particular, we were interested in visiting Huis Ten Bosch – the 152 hectare “European resort of flowers”.

(this image was borrowed from the park’s homepage)

We enjoy taking pictures of flowers, so we thought that this would be a nice place to visit.  We weren’t sure what to expect, but I had a slight suspicion that the park would be filled with senior citizens looking at flowers wilting in the summer heat…

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On the way back from getting our van serviced, we stopped by this park in Hakone.  We have been there several times in the fall, but we have never been there during the spring or summer.  We weren’t disappointed – there was a variety of wild flowers to be seen.

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