Nagasaki
Today's plan: day trip to Nagasaki! Nagasaki is about 150 km south of Fukuoka, in a bay, and unfortunately it is not on the shinkansen route, meaning it takes two hours to get there on a train that stops several times along the way. To be honest, I'm not really complaining: I'm already so tired that sitting for two straight hours is a blessing, not a curse! As soon as I got off at Nagasaki Station, I took a tram to go to the Peace Park. I was armed with Google Maps and I had memorized the kanji for the places I was going to visit, but I needn't worry: all the signs include English text, so I would have been fine even if I hadn't prepared anything. There are even English instructions on the tram stops explaining how Japanese buses/trams work (you get on from the back of the vehicle, and you pay at the end when you pass the driver on the way out). When I got to the park, it was about 11:30, there was nary a cloud in the sky, it was almost 30 degrees, and the sun