I took the tram to the Dejima area and walked a bit further on to the Nagasaki Seaside Park, a pleasant park not far from where the boat to Gunkanjima sailed from yesterday. In one corner of this park is a modern apartment block (completed in 2004) which I rather liked.

I walked up the hill away from the docks towards Glover Garden. Thomas Glover (1838–1911) was a Scottish merchant who moved to Nagasaki after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859. He later assisted some of the revolutionaries who would eventually overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Meiji Restoration, and was active in various industries including shipbuilding and mining, featuring prominently in the early history of Japan’s industrialisation. He also helped popularise beer in Japan through his involvement in founding the Japan Brewery Company, the forerunner of today’s Kirin Group. His Nagasaki residence, completed in 1863, is the oldest surviving Western-style wooden building in Japan. Glover Garden was created in 1974 to gather together historic Western-style buildings into one hillside site, with Glover's former residence as the centrepiece.

After returning to the hotel, I walked to the nearby ropeway that goes up Mount Inasa, at the top of which is an observation deck. I took one photo towards the Seaside Park (the city is too long/wide to fit in one photo) and one out towards the islands (Gunkanjima is a small smudge near the middle just below the horizon). From the same two positions I took 360° interactive pictures: city, islands.

Finally, when I went to the station to reserve seats for tomorrow's trains there was a queue at the ticket machine and, fearing that I might have trouble with the dodgy QR code on my pass, I decided to avoid any faffing about and went to the ticket office. This turned out to be fortuitous because the assistant, without even being asked, gave me a brand new copy of the pass (the old one was beginning to look a bit creased) so hopefully that will put an end to the intermittent faults.