What other travelers are saying about Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
One of the best war museum i ever went! The museum has a great narrative exhibition. It not too overwhelmed with information. Spending about 2 hours here. Its worth to drive from Fukuoka to here. Parking at museum also cheapest among other parking near museum.
Highly recommended for those who loves war museum.
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
A moving and powerful experience.
The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum offers a profound journey through history, documenting the events of August 9, 1945, and the devastating impact of the atomic bomb. Exhibits include photographs, survivor testimonies, artifacts, and a model of the destroyed city — all presented with respect and emotional depth. The museum emphasizes peace, remembrance, and the hope for a nuclear-free world. A must-visit for those seeking understanding, reflection, and perspective.
🕒 Open daily | ⏰ Allow 1–2 hours
📍 Close to the Peace Park and Hypocenter
🎧 Audio guides available in multiple
A deeply moving and honest museum that makes one thing unmistakably clear: the use of nuclear weapons must be prevented at all costs. What stood out was the openness—nothing was sugar-coated or justified. The devastation caused by the bomb was shown alongside Japan’s own wartime actions. It’s a sincere, confronting, and necessary place. The message is clear: this must never happen again.
It was quite a poignant visit.
As you descend the passageway towards the main exhibition halls, it seems you are moving back in time as well.
The exhibits highlight how and what the locals were doing at the moment when their lives were extinguished, or impacted, by the atomic bomb.
There are reminders of them in the stark everyday items that survive, or by their shadows forever etched into concrete by the harsh glare from the bomb. There are two old clocks that stopped at the very moment of the blast.
We spent quite a bit of time in the section that featured the memories and comments of those who initially survived the blast, and how they tried to cope with the loss of the loved ones and their homes.
Other exhibits include the development of the atomic bomb, as well as the nuclear arms race since then.
There is parking immediately at the side of the building, and you can also go up to the observation deck at the top of the garden.
There is a small cafe, appropriately called Peace Cafe, where you can grab a drink and a cake. There are many strands of origami cranes made by locals and visitors, symbolising the hope for peace.
Had a one day trip to Nagasaki and I decided to came here. It’s worth visiting this museum. It’s really emotional to see the history about the atomic bomb that affects to people. Entrance fee is 200¥. The layout very good, easy to navigate.
