Friday 4th – Sunday 6th April, 2014.
After our previous hostel experience, the Akari Hostel in Nagasaki was positively palatial. We had just had four nights sleeping Japanese-style on futons on tatami mats on the floor (two of those nights with rice pillows) and now we had real beds with real pillows! We also had an ensuite, so didn’t have to venture outside (or outside down to the floor below) whenever nature called.
Another enormous plus was that now that we had beds, we no longer had to sit on the floor. There was room for two people to sit on Carol’s bed, and I could sit on mine …..
….. as long as I remembered to insert my head between the slats under Frances’ bed.
The hostel was beside a very pretty “river”:
Opposite the hostel, on the other side of the “river”, was the Koyozan Koyeiji Buddhist temple.
The temple was first built in 1614, and damaged and rebuilt several times since then. It was destroyed by the Atomic Bomb of 1945 and rebuilt in 1989. In 1994 (the 50th anniversary of the A-Bomb), the gate and belfry were reconstructed.
Here are some pictures of the temple taken the next day when it was sunny:
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