Nagasaki Lantern Festival

Every year, during the last 2 weeks of February, the Japanese celebrate the New Year and have Lantern Festivals. This was a neat thing to experience. We drove to Nagasaki (about a 2-hour drive) to see a Lantern Festival there. By the way, just in case you aren't aware, Nagasaki is one of the two places we dropped an atom bomb! The city was beautifully decorated with lanterns of all sizes and shapes and at night the sight was even more beautiful when the lanterns all light up. Check out the pictures at the left side of the screen going down.