Nagasaki (長崎) is an important port city on the island of Kyushu and the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture. Its rich history and culture and attractive location around a narrow inlet make Nagasaki one of Japan’s most interesting travel destinations.
Thanks to its proximity to the Asian mainland, the port city of Nagasaki has played a prominent role in foreign trade relations for many centuries and was the most important of only a very few ports open to restricted numbers of foreign traders during Japan’s period of isolation. In more recent history, Nagasaki became the second city after Hiroshima to be destroyed by an atomic bomb towards the end of World War II.