Adventurer in Japan, part 2: Nagasaki day 3

Last day in Nagasaki was dedicated to doing all the necessary sad shit: visiting the A-bomb museum, memorial hall and the epicentre of the bomb. I don't have any photos from the first two places, because the museum was too interesting (if not full of propaganda and some information errors) and because I think photography in memorial places is tacky, like taking smiling photos of yourself at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Anyway, here's the photos from our last day in Nagasaki!

Whoops, actually, this is from the victim memorial hall. Instead of flowers, people had left paper cranes. I thought they were nice. 

Epicentre. 

A single crane on the memorial monument. Someone had great eye for dramatics. 

One of the only things to survive in the immediate vicinity of the epicentre.

Wreaths of thousands and thousands of origami cranes, sown together. 

Very serious sausage dog, remembering all the lives lost. 

In the peace park, hunky bro reminding us all that peace is the way to go. I agree bro, I agree. 

Park employees fishing out algae (and probably some thrown in coins). 

We managed to see almost all the sights marked on the Nagasaki tourism map, and the last one was this bridge: The Spectacles Bridge. Get it? Because the mirror image on the water makes it look like glasses!!!

This guy knew all about the bridge, and also about the 10 other bridges around, impressing the knickers off of these ladiesss. 

No close up photo could stress just how much Koi there was in the river. Enough to make me fear for my safety.