Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

Tickets are sold one floor below the entrance, and the route runs underground from there, so the city noise drops away quickly. Corner A opens on August 9, 1945 and on the streets of Nagasaki before the bomb. Corner B is the hard part: a clock stopped at 11:02, the minute of the explosion, large damaged objects from the bombed districts, and a full-size reproduction of a side wall of Urakami Cathedral. Corner C deals with the history of nuclear weapons and the effort to ban them, and Corner D has a video room and a Q&A corner. The present building opened in April 1996, replacing the old International Culture Hall, and stands a short walk uphill from Hypocenter Park. Main captions are in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean, and an audio guide costs 160 yen. Photos are allowed without flash, tripods or selfie sticks, but not of the painting at the B2 ticket machines or of the photograph Boy Standing by the Crematory at the B1 exit. The permanent exhibition is being renewed in stages, so one corner may be screened off; most of Corner B stays open. Volunteer guides walk visitors through for free from 10:00 to 16:00, first come, first served.