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Airlines
ANA (tel 0120-029222); China Eastern Airlines (tel 095/828-1510); JAL (tel 0120-255971); JAS (tel 0120-511283); Korean Air (tel 095/824-3311).
Airport information tel 095/752-5555. Banks and exchange The 18th Bank, next to the New Nagasaki Hotel , is the closest foreign exchange service to the train station. Otherwise, there are branches of major banks around the central Hamanomachi shopping district. Bookshops Nagasaki's biggest bookshop, Kinokuniya, is located on the fourth floor of the Youme Saito shopping centre, near the Ohato Port Terminal. It has a decent selection of English books and magazines. Also try Kobundo, located in Hamanomachi arcade. Foreign titles are up on the second floor. Look out for Crossroads (?600), an excellent journal about Nagasaki history and culture published annually by two American academics. Car rental Eki Rent-a-car (tel 095/826-0480); Nippon Rent-a-car (tel 095/821-0919); Nissan Rent-a-car (tel 095/825-1988); Toyota Rent-a-car (tel 095/847-0100). Ferries Yasuda company (tel 095/836-2613) operates daily express and regular ferries from Mogi-ko south to the Amakusa islands (40min, ?1750 by express ferry; 1hr10min, ?1220 by regular ferry). Mogi-ko is a thirty-minute bus ride from Nagasaki Station. Festivals New Year is celebrated in Chinatown with a Lantern Festival, dragon dances and acrobatic displays (Jan 1-3). Dragon-boat races, here called Peiron, were introduced by the Chinese in 1655 and are still held in Nagasaki harbour every summer (June-July). The last evening of Obon (Aug 15) is celebrated with a "spirit-boat" procession, when recently bereaved families lead lantern-lit floats down to the harbour. But the biggest bash of the year occurs at the Kunchi Matsuri held in early October at Suwa-jinja . Hospitals Nagasaki Hospital, 6-41 Sakuragi-cho (tel 095/823-2261), is located on the city's southeastern suburbs. Closer to the centre, Shimin Byoin, 6-39 Shinchi-machi (tel 095/822-3251) is an emergency hospital on the western edge of Chinatown. Internet access You can use the Internet for ?100 an hour at the Chikyu Shimin Hiroba located on the second floor of Nagasaki Brick Hall (2-38, Mori machi; tel 095/842-3783), near Urakami station. Open daily from 9am-8pm. Police 6-13 Okeya-machi (tel 095/822-0110). Post office Nagasaki Central Post Office is 300m east of the station at 1-1 Ebisu-machi and has a poste restante service. Shopping The main department stores, Daimaru and Hamaya, are in the Hamanomachi shopping arcades. The most popular local souvenir is kasutera , a honey-sponge cake introduced from Spain by Portuguese cooks in the sixteenth century. The best-known kasutera bakeries are Fukusa-ya and Bunmei-do, both of which have outlets all over the city. If you want to buy it at source, however, try Fukusa-ya's original shop in a picturesque building on the edge of Shianbashi - look for its distinctive bat logo (daily 8.30am-8pm). Taxis Lucky Cab tel 095/822-4123.
Travel agencies
For domestic travel, the main JTB office is at 14-9 Dozamachi (tel 095/824-3200). International tickets can be bought at H.I.S, 5F, Yamato-seimei Building, 3-4 Manzai-machi (tel 095/820-6839), in the streets west of the City Hall. Other useful information
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