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Day 9 - Hiroshima
Nov 12, 2005
(18 photos)
"Up at 6:45AM. The new record for us. We were right on schedule, but then Dave mangled his glasses when he crushed them in a window - don't ask me how. 20 minutes later, and Dave no ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
bonkuraazu

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Ensimmaisen atomipommin pudotuspaikka
Aug 7, 2005
"5.8.05 Saavuimme Hiroshimaan puolenpaivan aikoihin ja kavimme turistitoimistossa katsomassa loytyisikohan majoitusta. 6.8 on Hirochiman pommituksen 60-vuotispaiva ja paikalle saapu ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
olesja

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A Bomb dome and partying with no sleep
Nov 11, 2006
(30 photos)
"So i day tripped it down to Hiroshima with my rail pass, Which meant i had to be up bright and early, which made yesterday while an amazing day also a really long one because in th ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
senorbrian

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A sad day in Hiroshima
Feb 26, 2008
(7 photos)
"Today we arrived in Hiroshima and it was raining, we spend the day in the rain looking at the sites, and with this gloomy weather everything looked even more sad :( We ar ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
chibisimo

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hiroshima, lest we forget
Jul 13, 2007
(1 photo)
"Today I witnessed some of the most upsetting and disturbing images of my life. Today we arrived by train from Kyoto to Hiroshima where we spent the majority of our time in the Hiro ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
pumpkinqueen

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High on the list
Nov 16, 2005
(11 photos)
"I might not understand or care much for temples, but I do know a bit about WW2. That made a visit to Hiroshima pretty much compulsory - and I'm glad I came. Obviously, most of the ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
glawler

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Hiroshima - 60th Anniversary
Aug 6, 2005
(15 photos)
"As the US war machine was busy in Iraq, I took a trip to a place where people say a war was ended or was it ended 3 days later when the US dropped another atomic bomb in Nagasaki. ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
billylaw

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Ground Zero
Jun 16, 2008
(5 photos)
"(Jim) Hiroshima is a beautiful city, ideally situated where two rivers come together. It was very near the confluence of these two streams that the first atomic bomb used aga ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
oneyearaway

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Zrudnost Maleho chlapca
May 11, 2008
(22 photos)
" Zobudili sme sa do krasneho slnieckom zaliateho rana s oblouhou bez jedineho mracika. Aj ked my sme s tymto ranom prilis neladili. Sedem hodin "spanku" na sklopenych sedackach nes ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
mimiama

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Hiroshima in 24 hours
Aug 31, 2005
(4 photos)
"Back on the train once again and off to Hiroshima. We're getting a bit sick of train travel, but certainly getting value out of our 14 day Japan Rail pass! Our stay in Hiroshima wa ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
milski

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My Birthday in Hiroshima
Aug 14, 2003
(10 photos)
"I visited Hiroshima and spent 3 days traveling around. I stayed in the Hiroshima Youth Hostel, which was really well set up, though just a tad out of the main area. You have to wal ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
vicked

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Hiroshima
May 24, 2008
(47 photos)
"Like Nagasaki it`s hard to believe that a nuclear bomb had once destroyed this place. The day we arrived it was chucking it down and despite our hotel being very nice we decided no ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
alexandcarol

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Hiroshima
Jul 12, 2008
(18 photos)
"Hiroshima: July 12 Not much to be said about this place, but we decided to take the plunge and visit The first city to be bombed by a nuke. we took the early bullet train, and in a ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
sumitcan

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City of Peace
Apr 29, 2005
(1 photo)
"Hiroshima, one of the most well know cities in the world. All for the wrong reasons... Since then the city has managed to bounce back with a vengeance. The rebuilt city has been de ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
fullcycle

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A very sad place
Nov 10, 2005
"There really isn't a lot to say about Hiroshima, it doesn't have very many old buildings and there is an air of sadness all around. I felt a little uncomfortable going to the war m ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
cameronadahl

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Last call from Japan
Oct 7, 2006
"Hello all once again, After spending many hours strolling the streets of Kyoto we finally found a cup of cha...from a bloody vending machine of all places. Took a short bus journey ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
thegores

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Peace
Dec 23, 2007
(42 photos)
"The next day we were back on the trains and on our way to Hiroshima. Just about an hour after leaving Tokyo we passed My Fiji. ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
jingcha

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Hiroshima
Mar 28, 2007
(8 photos)
"Hiroshima...... yet another place I have always wanted to go to. We stayed on student accommodation and I have to say it was the flashist student accomodation I have seen. It was b ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
dam

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Sobering moments in Hiroshima
Jun 19, 2004
(10 photos)
"After three days in Tokyo Trace had to go back to work so we headed to Osaka where her and Murray live, and from there I took a day trip to Hiroshima. It's a really sad place to be ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
beck

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Hiroshima
Jul 10, 2007
(6 photos)
" Apres notre week-end a Tokyo, on est parti faire un petit voyage dans l'ouest du pays.On a pris le Shinkansen (train rapide). C'est plutot cool, hyper large, mega confortable et i ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
wismax

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Hiroshima and Miyajima
Apr 25, 2007
"Today we went on a tour-de-force through the lovely city of Hiroshima and the island of Miyajima. People met: Cute girls in McDonald's, who very kindly turned down the opportunity ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
zaidngreg

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Go Carp!!!
Jul 8, 2008
"Hej igen Saa er jeg kommet ind til Hiroshima og fandt mit hostel. Jeg gik hurtigt over til mindeparken som ligger midt i byen og derefter med det samme ind i Atombombe museet, for ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
mlarsen

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Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb...
Aug 24, 2006
(2 photos)
"Up at 5am to get on the road to Hiroshima. Get there early afternoon and spend it around the Atomic Bomb Memorial and Museum. Lets just say that it was pretty sobering to be there ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
anderslost

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Peace Navigator...
Oct 20, 2006
(10 photos)
"So next I headed further south down the country to Hiroshima by myself. This was one of the main reasons I got the train pass because I really wanted to see the city and learn more ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
rpinto

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Hiroshima
Jul 31, 2008
(12 photos)
"My day excitedly started in the Hiroshima Train Station. I'm a single woman traveling alone for the first time and am in a foreign country. Even though I feel safe and ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
girliegurl77

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Peace Park
Nov 21, 2004
"took off alone and after an interesting experience and a Japanese ONLY airport, visited Hiroshima Peace park and Miyajima island monestary. Beautiful. Moving. Emotional.Couldn't ge ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
kzandea

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Hiroshima, Japan
Feb 12, 2007
(7 photos)
"The next morning was the big event- going to see the Hiroshima peace park. We took the Hiroshima street trolley and first walked by the A-bomb dome. This is the last remaining buil ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
jenfifi

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On the road
May 9, 2006
(5 photos)
"We woke up this morning to catch the 706 am train out of tokyo to hiroshima with a transfer in shin osaka. We got into Hiroshima around 1pm and decided to walk to our ryokan..it wa ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
2youngers

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Blast through Hiroshima and Miyajima!
Apr 30, 2006
"Hiroshima, another A-bomb victim has also risen from the ashes like Nagasaki and is truly a bustling city these days. Its almost beyond comprehension to think that only some 60 yea ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
danielheidi

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Hiroshima Discomforts
Feb 2, 2008
"Hiroshima was going to be difficult. But visiting the place where 70,000 people had been fried into oblivion in under a second would be challenging in an unexpected way. The weathe ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
mighty_atom

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A day trip to hiroshima
Apr 26, 2008
(10 photos)
"On Monday 28 April, I went on a day trip to Hiroshima. Well. It was an amazing day. I had read in my lonely planet, that the best way of appproaching the whole atomic bomb thing, w ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
hayleybay

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Hiroshima Top 5 (My Summer Holiday)
Jun 23, 2007
(13 photos)
"Just returned from a two day trip to Hiroshima. As I don't want to run the risk of making this entry read like a piece entitled 'My Summer Holiday' written by a year 8 student (God ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
andskye

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dovuto
Jul 4, 2008
"Una visita ci voleva , e` abbastanza impressionante vedere un pezzo di un palazzo rimasto in piedi che naturalmente adesso e` un monumento della fatidica esplosione ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
shantiman

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Hiroshima
Feb 18, 2006
(30 photos)
"Durante la visita de Bump y Gerri, hicimos algunos viajes fuera de la region de Kansai. Uno de ellos fue a Hiroshima y la isla de Miayima. La visita a Hiroshima fue impactante. Rec ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
contreras

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Hiroshima and Miyajima
Jul 8, 2006
(2 photos)
"A day trip by Shinkansen to Hiroshima. The A-bomb Dome, Peace Park and museum were predictably moving, but also for revealing the dark shadows that the atomic arms race still casts ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
lohreylane

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The Sorrowness of Hiroshima
Oct 22, 2007
(9 photos)
"We left Tabuse today. It was sad to leave a place where we were greeted with so much love. I really felt a warm welcome here and would definitely come back. I'm surre we will be ba ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
aushiro

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Hiroshima + Miyajima
Jun 6, 2007
"Ein wahrer Kontrast zu den vielen Tempeln, Pagoden und Buddhafiguren war der Besuch des Friedensmuseums in Hiroshima, in dem der Atombombenabwurf auf die Stadt mit all seinen Facet ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
laontour

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Matsumoto-Hiroshima
Apr 3, 2008
(17 photos)
"Nyt tulee uutinen! Älkää pelästykö, ei mitään Ilkka Kanervaan liittyvää, vaan se, että minä nukuin kunnolla tämän yön, ta-daaaa! Liekö syy Matsumoton raikkaan ilman vai hotellin Ru ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
travellerhans

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For Peace
Apr 1, 2006
(15 photos)
"Shinkansen, or what Americans call "bullet trains," are a supreme symbol of Japan's economic and technological success. I never dreamed I would have reason to take one, but when Ma ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
mearal01

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No More Nukes! We Mean It!
Mar 22, 2006
(7 photos)
"What can we say really? Go there and check it out. We had the Hiroshima version of Okonomi-yaki (sounds perfect for tight wads like us huh..) - they lured us in by calling it Japan ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
kukuwu

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Come on Where's Ricardo Montalban'?
May 29, 2007
(6 photos)
" The day began with packing. Today would begin our longest excursion away from Komeoka yet. Uneventfully the entire morning was spent packing and getting ready for our depart ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
wdwatts

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Isla de Miyajima: escalada al monte Misen
Aug 11, 2008
(7 photos)
"Ali: Nos levantamos bien temprano para aprovechar el bufet libre del hotel, pero para nuestra sorpresa al llegar el restaurante ya está invadido por los japoneses que madrugan la o ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
asantos

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Die traurige Geschichte von Hiroshima
May 2, 2008
(10 photos)
"Bevor wir nach Kyoto kamen, haben wir auf dem Weg Hiroshima besucht. Dieser Teil der Geschichte gehört zu Japan und so hatten wir in Hiroshima eigentlich nur ein Ziel: das Fr ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
halinko

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City of Peace
Nov 24, 2006
(8 photos)
"Today was a big day. It was one of those days that stops you dead in your tracks and makes you take stock in everything around you, and also demands you to question everything you ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
nyguy79

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The next few days. . .
May 16, 2008
(24 photos)
"Here are pictures from our trip to Hiroshima where we saw the Peace Park and walked throught he Hiroshima Memorial Museum. Next we went a little further down the coast and hopped a ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
freephilipal

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Hiroshima
Apr 27, 1994
"The date I first visited Hiroshima is a complete guess... all I remember is that Kirsty (and Jun??) and I went down on the Shinkansen from Kobe to visit Doru. We spent a couple of ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
flowergyaru

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Give peace a chance
Jul 9, 2007
"Hiroshima is a sobering city. Arrived in the rain, which was my usual course for Japan, but made it to my hostel in one piece. Visited the atomic bomb dome and the peace park my fi ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
edmund

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Hiroshima
Aug 22, 2006
"Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Miyajima Island, Torii Gate ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
leesar

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DAY TWENTY FOUR
Aug 28, 2007
(21 photos)
"Tooth ache still prevails.... Visited the Peace Memorial Park and the A-dome Memorial- this was where the world's first atomic bomb was dropped and it was a bit touc ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
jazzyjeff

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Peace
Oct 4, 2002
(3 photos)
"This morning we went to Miyajima Island by ferry, which is an island just off the mainland. It's a pretty cool island, we hired bicycles and rode around for a few hours. Also went ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
jimmie

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Hiroshima and Miyajima weekend--pt. I
May 31, 2008
(105 photos)
"Hiroshima and Miyajima: A place that cannot be experience through pictures (I know every place is like that, but these two places are especially elusive in their ability to touch s ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
audrangea

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Hiroshima
Jul 28, 2006
"At 6:00 AM I was up and ready to begin yet another day of power tourism. The only UP side to having stayed at that crappy ryokan was that it was literally a 2 minute walk from Peac ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
athena

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Sullen Meh
Jun 4, 2005
(11 photos)
"Hiroshima was a bit of a downer It started off well and good. I actually got my own proper hotel room for about 30 bucks. And that was a really nice. Then I took off to see the pea ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
daneish

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Hiroshima Nuclear
Jan 6, 2008
"- A-Bomb Dome - Childrens monument - Peace Memorial Park - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - River walk - Hiroshima Castle - Sogo suitcase shopping - Hondori Arcade - Yakitori Dinn ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
olea

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Hiroshima
Jun 9, 2008
(7 photos)
"A la conference de Yalta en fevrier 1945, Churchill, Staline et Roosevelt s'etaient mis d'accord: 3 mois apres la capitulation de l'Allemagne, la Russie romperait son pacte de non ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
sf2paris

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Japanese culture
Jun 11, 2007
(19 photos)
"So I went to the baseball game yesterday and it was great. I met a friend outside so we could go buy tickets, but he already had some for us because he met a guy on the train that ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
mie

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Hiroshima
Oct 2, 2007
(7 photos)
"And so onto Japan. After a great nights sleep on the ferry (not surprising after the limited sleep the night before) we arrived in the port town of Hakata on the Sunday morni ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
iceice17

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Peace city with a great nightlife
Dec 11, 2006
(8 photos)
"Hiroshima is a great place, my favorite after Tokyo although I can honestly say I've enjoyed them both equally. I'm sticking to Kirin or Sapporo on draft so I can enjoy my beers in ..."
A travel blog entry from Hiroshima by
seebaluck

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