Starting from Nagasaki Station
・By tram / bus: Get off at Atomic Bomb Museum stop.

Adjacent to the Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum is Nyokodo, Dr. Nagai Takashi's hospital room and study.

It was built as a new home for Dr. Nagai through the generosity of the people of Urakami and his fellow Catholics, who were left penniless by the atomic bombing. He named the building "Nyokodo," meaning "love your neighbor as yourself," and spent the last years of his life here.
Dr. Nagai spent his final years here, battling the onslaught of leukemia and becoming bedridden, but he continued to work desperately on his writing.
From his mere two-mat room, Dr. Nagai continued to encourage the people of Urakami, publishing novels and essays such as "Rosary Chain," "Leave This Child," "River of Life," and "The Bells of Nagasaki," which was made into a movie and "Leave This Child" into a record, and is still sung today as a famous postwar song.

Dr. Takashi Nagai, a Roman Catholic, gave this tiny house a name inspired by the Bible quote “love thy neighbor as thyself” (“nyoko” means “as thyself”). He lost his wife when the atomic bomb fell and he himself succumbed to leukemia, but that did not stop him from providing aid to other victims. He calls for peace in his many writings.
The adjacent memorial hall used to be a library he set up with his own money. The doctor’s photos and personal items are now on display.

When the government repealed its prohibition of Christianity, the adherents of Urakami who had regained their freedom took on the building of a church as their first project. Due to funding difficulties, however, construction did not get underway for another 20 years. Finally, in 1914, this impressive structure was commemorated as Asia's leading Romanesque-style cathedral of brick construction. It featured Angelus bells from France in the front pair of towers, but these were unfortunately destroyed in the atomic bombing of 1945. One of the Angelus bells was actually blown away, along with the belfry, by the force of the blast. The building you see today was reconstructed in 1959; in 1980, it was remodeled with brick tiles and restored to its original appearance. The bombed remnants of stone statues have been arranged in the surrounding area, including the one bell that withstood the atomic bomb blast and continues to announce the hour three times a day.

The station is located in Onoue-cho, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the Kyushu Railway Line.
It is the central station of Nagasaki City, the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture, and the terminus of the Nagasaki Main Line.