Nagasaki city is set inside a long valley, there's an excellent look-out mountain to the west called Mount Inasa. There are several ways to get to the observation deck. We decided to drive the car to a large car park and catch the Slope Car the last couple of kilometers to the top.

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Slope Car has two carriages and each provides excellent views on the way up. I believe it's called Slope Car because as it traverses some very steep terrain the floor of Slope Car stays perfectly horizontal through some mechanical magic.

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This is one of the magnificent views of Nagasaki that can be seen from the top of Mount Inasa. Our hotel is in the center of the quadrant.

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Kyushu was a popular cruising destination during our month there. We encountered thousands of cruisers in Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Fukuoka. The Diamond Princess was docked when I took this photo, though there would be a different cruise ship each day. The Nagasaki cruise dock is near the tram system Blue Line which connects cruisers to the Peace Park and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (長崎原爆資料館), so those trams were packed when the cruisers disembarked for their day trips.

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This is the Nagasaki Peace Park. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is a little to the south. We visited both on our first day in Nagasaki. The museum, as one would hope, outlines the horrific outcomes of the use of an atomic bomb against the heavily populated city on 9 August 1945.

However, as with many memorials and museums in Kyushu relating to WWII, there seems to be a very light touch regarding Japan's war crimes against its neighbors and the Allied nations opposing Imperial Japan, leaving visitors who didn't know otherwise somewhat confused as to why Japan itself was attacked. Google reviews left by Chinese, Korean, and English-speaking visitors often express concern about these omissions.