Along the eastern bank of Urakami River, you’ll follow your local host through some of Nagasaki’s most fascinating districts. At the heart of the city, in the Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown area, explore the intersecting lanes of the oldest Chinatown in Japan (and get recommendations for where sample Chinese-influenced dishes), or head to neighboring Higashiyamate’s Dutch Slope, a perfectly preserved stone-paved street that was home to Western traders in the late 1800s. Maybe you’ll explore the Heiwa district three miles north, where you could learn about the city’s painful past – and appreciate how it rebuilt itself – at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall, or see the one-legged arch of Sannō Shrine (its second column destroyed by the bomb).