Hiroshima, Japan Travel Blogs

The Island
Sep 11, 2007 (21 photos)

... The crossing was short but leaving the island was a bit of a sad moment because it pretty much wraps up my sightseeing in Japan. It was quite a reflective moment actually...I've seen and done so much in the last month and I'm not keen for it to end ...

Hiroshima
Dec 19, 2007 (59 photos)

... at the war museum that the bomb 'had to be tested' to justify government spending, despite the war being virtually over. However, Hiroshima is not a city mourning the past. Its contains all the good things about Tokyo - modern, clean, energetic - but ...

Hiroshima with Andrea...
Mar 26, 2007 (26 photos)

As Andrea was still on vacation, we decided to meet up and spend four nights in Hiroshima, which for obvious reasons is one of Japan`s most visited cities. Both of us had a "Seishun Juhachi Kippu" rail pass which meant that it was exceptionally cheap to ...

Hiroshima - City of Peace
Apr 8, 2008 (27 photos)

Ben Reporting: Obviously a city like Hiroshima comes with some pre-conceptions from a Westerners point of view. It was the first city in history to be bombed by an atomic bomb, an action that, in a flash, destroyed an entire city and ended WWII. Some ...

Atomic Bomb Museum
May 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... was their goal to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The question on everyone mind: no, there is no more radiation in Hiroshima (Dangerous Radiation was gone within 5 days). As a matter of fact, the city has bounced back to be one of the most ...

A day with Keigo
Dec 8, 2006 (5 photos)

Our video of Hiroshima can be found on the Contents page (entry #1).  At the top of the page, click on 'more thumbnails' to see all the videos. For the first time in what feels like weeks, we are able to sleep in, undisturbed by bus schedules, ...

Having a blast in Hiroshima
Dec 7, 2006 (4 photos)

... on the hillside, the effect is magical and authentically Japanese.      Keigo's home is a fair drive from Hiroshima city, in a small village in the hills.  He was born there and lives with his mother and grandmother.  The ...

Peace
Jul 13, 2003 (3 photos)

... and Dad. Each member of my (immediate) family except Pete has rung the peace bell so Dad made sure I did too! While in Hiroshima we also visited Mijiyama, one of Japans top three beautiful sights to see. A Tori floating in the water in front of its ...

Okonomiyaki...
Feb 18, 2008 (32 photos)

... to the Peace Museum the next morning instead, and it was just as touching as I had remembered. Now whenever I mention Hiroshima to a Japanese person, they always insist that I go and eat okonomiyaki at Okonomi-mura - a four floor building with some ...

Conversation at Last!
Sep 10, 2007 (16 photos)

... ;I decided to go on a food hunt. Hiroshima leaflets and guidebooks all make a big fuss of "Hiroshimayaki" - which is just a Hiroshima special Okonomiyaki (essentially a pancake with noodles, meat and veg, all fried up right in front of you).  This is ...

Bullet Time
Mar 27, 2006 (3 photos)

... use the squat toilet on board since the western style one was in use so that was an experience at almost 200mph. At Hiroshima station decided on getting the tram into town which had the same paying procedure as buses here with you paying when you get ...

Hiroshima
Mar 28, 2006 (2 photos)

... not be right to describe it as enjoyable given the subject matter on display. There was a large wealth of information about Hiroshima and the events surrounding 8:15am on August 6th 1945 all of it well presented and in a very impartial manner. There was ...

Observing Peace in Hiroshima & Miyajima Island
Feb 10, 2008 (35 photos)

... but would be a huge comparison to the afternoons tour around the Peace Memorial Museum that we would visit later on. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum I felt a chill go down my spine as we stepped off the Hiroshima Streetcar at the Peace Memorial stop. ...

Some more climbing
Jul 19, 2003 (4 photos)

Today I took the train from Hiroshima to Miyajimaguchi and from there I took the boat across to Miyajima Island. There was a large shrine, the Itsukushima Shrine, which was in the water. When the tide is in it looks like the shrine is floating on the ...

So long Sasakis
Dec 9, 2006 (1 photos)

... endeared her to the older ladies as well.   Keigo drives us to the bus station and sees us safely on to the Hiroshima-Osaka express.  The bullet train covers the 400+ kilometres in only 90 minutes, compared to the 4.5 hours on the bus, but ...

Miyajima
Sep 11, 2005 (11 photos)

... after our bags until then. After yesterdays extravagance we needed to save some money so walked the mile or 2 to Nishi-Hiroshima station where we could catch the train to Miyajima-guchi, the jumping off point for Miyajima island. Got the ferry over ...

There's your bombshell...
May 15, 2006

... trip on a Railstar Shinkansen, and the big difference is that the seating is 4 across rather than 5 across - luxury. Hiroshima Station was easy going and obviously geared towards foreign tourists. I didn't appreciate the standard "Are you American?" ...

Hiroshima
Sep 2, 2008 (8 photos)

... it from the outside though! That evening we hopped back on the bikes to visit a restaurant which serves Okonomi-yaki -a traditional Hiroshima dish. It's basically fried noodles with bacon and eggs served in a kind of a pancake. We tried it at a really ...

The War Museum and Miyajima Island
May 16, 2006 (14 photos)

... but in the end it was dropped right in the middle of the city and a few major military instillations survived as a result. 4. Hiroshima was eventually chosen because they had good weather on the day, and were thought to have few POWs held there. 5. The ...

We come in peace
Sep 9, 2005 (14 photos)

... of Fukuoka the night before we had decided to wake up early and catch a few of the sights before heading off to Hiroshima. However come 9am Dave was still asleep so I kept myself busy watching baseball and kiddies English language programmes on the TV ...

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Feb 21, 2005

Himeji
Sep 10, 2005 (5 photos)

Made the most of the late checkout at the Aster Plaza before leaving. We liked Hiroshima and so wanted to stay there the weekend but the Plaza was fully booked on the Saturday. Bummer! But we will however be returning there on Sunday. We couldn't be ...

Enter Japan
Dec 13, 2007

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Riding the bullet train.
Jul 18, 2003 (4 photos)

... happened here. The scary thing is, that the bombs that we have today are thousands of times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb was. Japan is still fighting for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. The peace flame in the park will burn until this is ...

Rampage of Randomness
May 16, 2006 (3 photos)

... them in the restaurant. Soon we were hitting the streets with a grin and a mission, out into the boozy unknown of Hiroshima nightlife. Tom lead the charge down an alleyway, trying random doors along the way to uncover what lay behind them. Locked, locked, ...

Hiroshima
Jul 22, 2005 (5 photos)

... graphic. I hope to get back some day to give the museum a proper going over. Moving on With our time in Hiroshima, and Japan, drawing to a close myself and B said our teary goodbyes and I boarded the train west to Shimonoseki for the overnight ferry ...

Thanksgiving, Weekend in Hiroshima!
Dec 3, 2006 (63 photos)

... nuclear age... For dinner we decided to head to the shopping/restaurant district to taste the famous Okonomiyaki, one of Hiroshima's specialties. It's similar to a pancake that has separate layers of cabbage, bean sprouts, meat/fish, and noodles on top ...

Last entry from Japan?
Apr 1, 2005 (75 photos)

... one in my arms for a picture. A few days later we had a four day weekend and headed to the Hiroshima area for our final excursion in Japan. In our usual way, Kyle and I stormed the area in a flurry ... Kurashiki Bikan Chiku Music Festival (Okayama). ...

Suuuuuummmmmmoooooooo....
Jun 10, 2006 (11 photos)

... wanderlust and see some more of Japan. As such, I revisited Kyoto and finally got out as far as Hiroshima, in the southwestern corner of Honshu, Japan's main island. Sorry if this is the ad suggesting you visit Switzerland. It is rather aggressive and ...

Faster than a speeding bullet
Apr 27, 2007 (24 photos)

... be proud of how it has recorded these events in history. On the way back to the station I stopped at the reconstructed Hiroshima castle for my first views of Japanese buildings. Then onto my first experience of a bullet train......2 hours later from ...