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Can anyone recommend a tour/tour guide for Nagasaki, Japan. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

Also, can any one tell me if getting around on your own is relatively easy. Will we have problems with the language (we speak English).

 

Marilee

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Getting around Nagasaki is very easy. At the dock there will be people to help with maps and information. You can buy a tram pass.

 

We managed to get to the museum (forget the official title), up the tram car to the hill across the harbour from where we docked in order to see the view, to a shopping area and up to Glover Gardens though we did not go in as time had run out.

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Getting around Nagasaki is very easy. At the dock there will be people to help with maps and information. You can buy a tram pass.

 

We managed to get to the museum (forget the official title), up the tram car to the hill across the harbour from where we docked in order to see the view, to a shopping area and up to Glover Gardens though we did not go in as time had run out.

 

Did you have any problem reading the signs ont he tram? Like the signs for where to get off of the tram? Is there shopping any where close to the port?

 

Marilee

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Japan is a great place to do it yourself. Checkout the goodwill guide program. we used them in various places around Japan. They are volunteers who are very proud of their country and all speak English well enough to be able to communicate. They are often students studying English at university so it is a win win situation.

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Go on your own. The tram is right at the pier, literally. The information booths are also right on the pier. The main museum and park are easy to get to on the tram. The children and teenagers love to talk to English speaking people and will "walk" you anywhere you want to go. You can also walk around near the port and shop and see gardens, etc. Very easy port.

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Loved the trams and we did fine with no Japanese. The Japanese are wonderful people who appreciate tourists - all you have to do is ask and someone will assist you. Biggest problem was the young mother with 2 small children who popped up to give up her seat for my DH -who really wanted her to sit down. Finally a young man translated for us and all was good but she seemed embarrassed that an elder was standing while she was sitting. The maps you get at the port are detailed and many things are walkable. The Confucious 'museum school' was just a few blocks from the pier and was a wonderful find plus had awesome shopping in the museum store. The courtyard was full of life-sized statues of philosophers.

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