Nagasaki Prefecture · Japan
Where to stay in Nagasaki
Nagasaki is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, home to about 405,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Nagasaki.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- NGS19 km · Nagasaki Airport
- Currency
- JPYyen
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Language
- Japanese
About
About Nagasaki
Nagasaki, officially Nagasaki City, is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Under the national isolation policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Nagasaki harbor was the only harbor to which entry of foreign ships was permitted. Even today, Nagasaki shows the influence of many cultures such as Dutch, Portuguese, and Chinese. On 9 August 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing a total of over 100,000 people. Six days later Japan surrendered, ending World War II. The local tourist association has a Japanese-only guide site. Clicking on "Language" leads to the prefecture's multilingual guide site.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Nagasaki
See
A multi-lingual call center can answer tourism-related questions in English and 16 other languages: +81-95-825-5175, 08:00-20:00 365 days a year. Save some paper by using their collection of electronic pamphlets (PDF) for several attractions.
- Atomic Bomb Museum
- Nagasaki Peace Park
- Glover Garden
- Museum of 26 Martyrs of Japan
- Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan
- Inasayama
- Koshibyo Confucius Shrine
- Sofuku-ji
- Oura Catholic Church
- Immaculate Conception Cathedral
- Dejima (Site of the Former Dutch Factory)
- Shinchi Chinatown
Do
- Gunkanjima
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Nagasaki
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Toyoko Inn Nagasaki Ekimae hotel |
Where to stay
More hotels in Nagasaki
20 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| ANA Crowne Plaza Nagasaki Gloverhill | 1.8 km | |
| Hotel Forza Nagasaki FJ. Hotels | 0.6 km | |
| Stadium City Hotel Nagasaki | 1.8 km | |
| Candeo Hotels Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown | 0.8 km | |
| Garden Terrace Nagasaki Hotel & Resort | 2.5 km | |
| Hilton Nagasaki | 2021 | 1.2 km |
| Hotel Belleview Nagasaki Dejima | 0.8 km | |
| Hotel Concerto Nagasaki | 2.7 km | |
| Hotel Cuore Nagasaki Ekimae | 0.8 km | |
| Hotel Dormy Inn Nagasaki Shinchichukagai Dormy Inn | 0.9 km | |
| Hotel H2 Nagasaki | 0.6 km | |
| Hotel Marine World | 0.9 km | |
| Hotel Monterey Nagasaki | 1.5 km | |
| Hotel New Nagasaki | 0.7 km | |
| i+Land Nagasaki | 10.7 km | |
| JR Kyushu Hotel Nagasaki | 0.8 km | |
| Luke Plaza Hotel | 2.4 km | |
| Nisshokan Bettei Koyotei | 1.0 km | |
| Richmond Hotel Nagasaki Shianbashi | 0.9 km | |
| The Hotel Nagasaki, BW Premier Collection | 0.7 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Nagasaki
Nagasaki has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; July is the wettest, with about 389 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Nagasaki: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nagasaki Airport (NGS), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; Amakusa Airport (AXJ, 40 km) and Kyushu Saga International Airport (HSG, 59 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
If you are landing at Fukuoka Airport (FUK), highway buses run to Nagasaki 1-2 times per hour (2 hr 20 min, ¥2620).
Getting around
Trams (路面電車 romen densha or チンチン電車 "chin-chin densha") connect most of Nagasaki; they run about every ten to fifteen minutes during the day. The most frequently used lines will be the red (3) and blue (1); the blue and red lines run on the same track from the northern end of Nagasaki as far as the Nagasaki train station, where they split. The blue line continues to the You-me Plaza shopping mall, Dejima, and later the downtown shopping arcade. A one-way trip is ¥140 and you can get a transfer ticket (乗り継ぎ券 ”noritsugi ken") to continue your trip, if it requires two streetcars.
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NGS · Nagasaki Airport
AXJ · Amakusa Airport
HSG · Kyushu Saga International Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Nagasaki
Eat
Nagasaki's most famous dish is champon (ちゃんぽん), which is a hearty dish of noodles in a pork-based broth, filled with vegetables, bacon, shrimp, squid, and scallops. Saraudon (皿うどん) is another popular dish that combines the meat, seafood, vegetables, and sauce of champon, but serves it on a plate, or 'sara', over crispy dry fried noodles. For Nagasaki's most well-known champon and saraudon restaurants, it is best to head into Chinatown (blue streetcar to the Tsuki-machi stop).
Drink
The worthwhile trip to the top of Glover Garden also yields another point of interest: the oldest Western-style restaurant in Japan, the Jiyu-tei Cafe and Teahouse. The stop in is worth it to see their impressive Dutch coffee-making equipment, when combined with the historicity could be why they charge about ¥550 for a cup. It is closed until 2027 for renovation.
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Questions
Nagasaki: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Nagasaki?
Nagasaki has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; July is the wettest, with about 389 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Nagasaki?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nagasaki Airport (NGS), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; Amakusa Airport (AXJ, 40 km) and Kyushu Saga International Airport (HSG, 59 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Nagasaki?
yen (JPY).
Nearby
Destinations near Nagasaki
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.