Good morning! Our last day in Nagasaki, and since it's near the end of our trip, I had nothing planned for the day! We woke up at our own leisure time, and admire the beautiful view of the city. Today, we're just gonna take it slow.
My breakfast, some matcha red bean pound cake along with my free DormyInn Hotel Hot Coffee. I don't really spend a lot on my travels as I tend to enjoy eating snacks for breakfast, street food for my meals, and maybe an occasional splurge on a nice restaurant. My highest cost for travelling is usually just the flight, and the hotel. In some countries, I can get pretty cheap hotel below my daily allowance of 50sgd a day. But in others, sometimes I have to up my budget to 100sgd a day. And when I travel with friends, sometimes it's way beyond 100sgd, but I guess it does come with the experience.
So on our free day, we decided to just take a walk to the nearest shopping street and wander around there. It was a share that the Nagasaki JR area was going through extensive renovation, else the main shopping area was just across the road from our hotel. But with the renovation going on, it was extremely noisy and dusty there, as well as disorientating since you have to follow all the side roads to get to where you want. No luxury of just wandering in any direction there :( But as I am writing this in 2025, I read that the renovation has been completed and the malls are all opened again!
Reached the shopping street. The usual covered walk ways with individual shops at both end. It was pretty long, and lots of people around. Was it a weekend? I can't quite remember. I don't recall we did much shopping at all!
We did sat down for a coffee. Or at least, the husband had a proper latte. He didn't like the free coffee from the hotel as it wasn't a 'proper' latte with real fresh milk.... I wanted a coffee too, but with almost the same place, why settle for something usual when I could have okinawa brown sugar coffee with red beans? Yup, that was what I ordered! And I don't regret it!
We were also pretty sick of Japanese food at this point, and decided we wanted some western bread. We ended up having baguette at the cafe and sat there just people watching. There were many solo diners there, and the seating arrangement do cater to them as it seems they are the majority here. There were also a lot of solo senior customer. I don't know whether it was a sad sight or an independent one. But I do like it that solo people can just go out and enjoy themselves in Japan and that was the norm here. When you dine solo in Japan, sometimes you get the best seats in the cafe! None of those facing the wall at the back of the shop kind of seats!
We did bought back our snacks and dinner from some supermarket to enjoy back at the hotel.
As usual, since this was our last full day in Nagasaki, we kinda went overboard with the sashimi and sushi and all sorts of food again. Maybe I kept some for next day's breakfast to! Who knows! But it was very affordable to enjoy our favourite Japanese food here when you are in Japan!
We even save some space in our tummy for our free ramen from the hotel. Above is what it looked like. Although there aren't any meat inside, the taste of the ramen is pretty awesome! Very light and hearty supper. I think they serve it from 9pm to 11pm every night. You could get the usual free drinks there too.
I can't actually remember where I got this pen, but I usually don't keep more than one favourite pen with me. Interestingly, I now uses 2 such pens with 6 different colours at a time! So far I could only find the character ones in Japan. Those in Singapore are usually just the normal pen that cost twice the price. I recently also saw one with Hello Kitty, but decided not to get it since Hello Kitty is quite a common thing. I decided to only have one character pen, and it was going to be Moomin! Yeah, I should probably make a Moomin pencil case to go with it.
Sunset at Nagasaki from our hotel. Bye bye lovely city! Hope I can visit you again in future.
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