Glover Garden

This was actually taken on our first day at Nagasaki (on the 19th). I'm going to upload some more photos from the trip.

On arriving at Nagasaki, we headed for Glover Garden, one of the sightseeing spots in the city. The garden was built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who lived in the end of the military government and Meiji period Japan, contributing to the modernisation of Japan. Until coming to the garden, we didn't even know he was originally from Fraserburgh, Scotland: as we all had been to Scotland, he became familiar to us when we knew the fact.

I found this box shown in the blip at the garden. This is a kind of unattended sales stand: if you pay 100 yen in the box, you can pick up food for carps in the pond. The Japanese sign on the top also mentions, "Please do not put 100 yen if there is no food available," which is so courteous.