Audio tour · Japan
Nagasaki
A self guided audio tour of Nagasaki.
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A self guided audio tour of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki sits in a bowl of green hills sloping to one of Japan's most storied harbours, and the city that grew here is unlike anywhere else in the country. For centuries it was Japan's only open window to the outside world, and you can still trace that in the Dutch trading post at Dejima, the old churches, and the quiet dignity of the Peace Park. It is a place that carries grief and curiosity in the same breath.
In the app, 32 stops in Nagasaki are narrated aloud, about 54m of listening across 3 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 37 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.
"Out on the water about nine miles off Nagasaki sits a small island that locals named Gunkanjima, meaning Battleship Island."
"You are standing on what was once an artificial island, a small fan-shaped patch of land built out into Nagasaki's harbor in 1636."
"Rising over the Shimabara Peninsula, Mount Unzen is not one peak but a cluster of volcanoes, a complex of overlapping cones."
"Step through the gates here and Japan seems to fall away behind you."
"This red brick church stands in the Urakami district, a neighborhood with one of the deepest Christian roots in Japan."
"This park asks something of you."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A compact stroll through the old trading heart of Nagasaki from the Dutch island of Dejima past Chinatown temples and over the stone spectacles bridge
A deeply moving walk through the Urakami valley connecting the rebuilt cathedral, the Peace Park, the Atomic Bomb Museum, and the resilient Sannō Shrine to the hillside martyrs monument
From the famous Western-style mansion gardens above the harbour the route winds through Zen temple streets and climbs to the sweeping nightview panorama of Mount Inasa
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.