SHINKAMIGOTO, Japan >> A town in Nagasaki prefecture’s Goto Islands last year set up a government department devoted to the area’s specialty noodles, Goto udon.

Typically, the festival is held from Oct. 7 to 9. Each district representing old Nagasaki town is assigned to perform a dragon dance, among others, once every seven years. But the main ...

Nagasaki, located on the northwest coast of Kyushu, is known for its history with the atomic bomb. But this beautiful ...

His mother and his younger siblings had left Nagasaki for another town a couple of days before. So Yamawaki and his twin brother went to find their father at his factory. "What we saw there ...

During this festival, more than 15,000 bright lanterns and big art displays lit up the town. During the festival, colorful lanterns adorn not only Chinatown but also different parts of Nagasaki ...

The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light fireworks and firecrackers at family graves and parade boats ferrying the spirits of the deceased through the streets ...

The next phase of this trip sees us heading out of Sasebo toward Nagasaki via the Omura Bay Green Route. This stunning route ...

NAGASAKI—Hideo Kaji fondly recalls the harmony ... as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution. The island mining town is now in ruins, displaying only traces of its heyday.

This port town in Nichinan City has a long reputation ... there are still three shoyu producers in Ōdōtsu. To reach Nagasaki from Tokyo, flights take two hours. From there, you can travel ...