"Kokura—not Nagasaki—would have gone down in history as Hiroshima’s sister city in atomic devastation"
"Poor visibility over Kokura and a cascade of mishaps... put Nagasaki in the crosshairs instead"
https://www.history.com/articles/nagasaki-atomic-bomb-drop-secondary-target
#Nagasaki #Kokura
📷小倉城庭園
Kokura Castle Japanese Garden
📝 #小倉城 そばの池泉回遊式庭園。池を見下ろすように造られている高めの書院が特徴。
🗾 #北九州 #小倉 #Kitakyushu #Kokura #KokuraCastle
🏷 #castle #garden
Kokura Castle in a rain
Kokura, Kitakyushu, Japan
We went to Japan during the rainy season, but I just learned that Philly was also very wet with a lot of rain during the past couple of weeks. Looks like I did not have to worry about our plants 😊
The photo is taken on July 9th in the middle of the rainy season when we visited Kokura Castle - with an umbrella, it was still a nice day walking around the castle 😉
#Japan #Japanese #Kitakyushu #Kokura #Castle #Rain #umbrella
Night at the Kokura Castle
The illumination was basically an advertisement for the local baseball team 😑
But I caught a moment without commercials 😉