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Nagasaki, Japan

Nagasaki, Japan

There’s more to Nagasaki than being the site of the world’s second atomic attack, but the city recognizes that it’s important to remember this too. And it does so very well, with Nagasaki Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Museum as serene, educational monuments to the 1945 event. But about that “more”… Nagasaki has hundreds of years of history as port city whose beauty often draws comparisons to San Francisco, and welcomes visitors with delicious locations like Chinatown and the Shianbashi Gourmet Street, plus Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park modeled on an old Dutch town — right down to the windmill.