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Hiroshima Slideshow
Hiroshima
Travel Blogs from Hiroshima, Japan
Miyajima
A few-minutes'ferry ride across the water from Hiroshima is Miyajima, a small, mountainous island with a beautiful, "floating" shrine. The huge orange gates stand right in the water, and the shrine itself sits among a series of "floating pathways" just ...
Mitaki Temple
Mitaki Temple (translation: Three Falls Temple) is set high in the hills overlooking Hiroshima. It is the burial place of many of the victims of the ...
August 6 - The Commemoration
... . As always, thousands turned up for the ceremony, to renew their commitment to peace. They also turned up to support Hiroshima's mayor, who has pitted himself against the Koizumi government that recently sent Japanese Ground Self-Defense forces to ...
NICK: Hiroshima II
Ashleigh and I decided to take a small trip to Hiroshima. I'd forgotten about the last time that we went to Hiroshima. I was just thinking it would be a good weekend trip that we could do, sicne we had two consecutive days of together. We went to the ...
22 hours and 14 minutes later.... I'm in Japan!!!
Hello Everybody! I am here in Hiroshima, safe and sound. We arrived last night around 8:45pm Sunday night, Hiroshima time. I believe that would be 2am Sunday morning back home. We were greeted by our preceptor, Kenji Kihara, and several of his students. ...
Participants: Lecturers and Students
The greatest beauty of this Peace Intensive was the participants themselves. Coming from countries on almost every continent on earth, they studied, grappled with difficult ideas (many in a second language), played, laughed, and sometimes cried together. ...
Hiroshima
... for a view out over the ocean and surrounding islands. Thanks to Mario´s language skills, we spend the evening in Hiroshima eating a vegetarian version of the local Okonomiyaki (noodles and cabbage pancake), followed up with a Japanese games ...
The Course
... political violence; indiscriminate wartime bombing of civilians; stories of A-bomb survivors; and the troubled and troubling Japan-U.S. defense alliance, among others. The Symposium, entitled "Reflections of the Enola Gay: Symbolic Representations of ...
ATOMIC DOME
... were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to ...
An Uneasy Night
... ;Anywhere where there is no city they`ve squeezed rice paddies. At Osaka I had to change trains. Final destination: Hiroshima, but I don`t think it had hit me yet that that was actually a real place, and I fell asleep most of ...
Day 2 Hiroshima
Today, we traveled to the island of Miyajima. About the 6th century, a monk founded a temple there, the Itsukushima Shrine. He started a fire in what is now the Eternal Fire Temple that has been burning ever since. This fire was used to ...
Another day in Hiroshima
Happy Birthday to me. After breakfast we caught a local train to Miyajima Station then a JR Ferry to Miyajima Island. It was a very enjoyable, plenty of wild deer and of course lots of souvenir shops. Itsukushima Shrine was first built ...
Nuclear war?
... -rider on the shinkansen into Hiroshima. We did arrive early afternoon at Nirvana - well, a modern western business hotel in downtown Hiroshima. We were handily placed for a short walk to the Peace Memorial Park and museum. The tone of the afternoon was ...
Hiroshima
... will have to go there yourself to see it! The next day I headed back down the mountain and caught the Shinkansen to Hiroshima for a completely different experience. The city is famous because at 8.15am on 6th August 1945 it was the target for the ...
Miyajima
... you makes you sleep until 2 the next afternoon." After a very late start, we took a ferry to Miyajima, an island neat Hiroshima, in time for sunset. There is a famous "floating torii" there that is one of the most photographed sites in ...
Hiroshima - Day 12
... its Museum. That place is very sad but full of information about life before and after attack. For everybody who will ever visit Hiroshima, this place is a must (entrance fee is less then 1p). From museum we walked to main train station to catch a train ...
Hiroshima
... in Hiroshima at the time of the blast. For dinner, we went to a building that has a bunch of different Okonomiyaki restaurants. Hiroshima is famous for its Okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki is kind of like a pancake but it has meat and vegetables in it. It was ...
A Japanese phoenix
... for one of history's most notorious events. After Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, there is only one other city in Japan known across the globe: Hiroshima. Before I really knew anything more about Japan than ninjas, karate, samurai and rice-paper windows, I had ...
Mountain temple to Island retreat
... stop to look around Hiroshima just yet; our destination was the absolutely beautiful island of Miyajima. A ten minute ferry ride off Hiroshima, Miyajima is an island considered sacred by the Japanese. According to what we have read no trees are allowed ...
The Day we saw the Floating Torii
... 2pm, we took the train and the ferry to Miyajima. Miyajima is a small island less than an hour outside the city of Hiroshima. Miyajima is most famous for its giant torii, which at high tide seems to float on top of the water. The sight is ...
Apr 20, 2010
our last week in Japan
... rappresentato come statuetta al di fuori di taverne, reggendo una fiaschetta di sake e due enormi testicoli... bah. L'arrivo ad Hiroshima e' stato un misto di entusiasmo e timore. Timore provocato da un passato difficile da dimenticare. In realta' e' ...
A floating Torii gate...
... the rain. Fortunately this train worked perfectly (I guess they'd fixed whatever the problem was), and we made our way to Hiroshima- to find the rain swapped for very hot sunshine! The memorial and Hypocentre here was very different to the one in ...
Surprisingly good food
... seem to multiply everyday), infront of me and still have more legroom than any other train I've been on. My next stop is Hiroshima. My Grandparents have a friend (Yasuko), who lives here and she very kindly offered to show me around and put me up in ...
Miyajima : Negeri Para Dewa
... di daerah Chugoku atau Hiroshima selama masa perang saudara dalam sejarah Jepang, ia juga disebut-sebut sebagai pendiri wilayah Hiroshima. Tahun 1551 setelah mengalahkan Sue Harukata dalam perang Itsukushima yang disebut juga Tiga Perang Besar di Jepang, ...
Little Boy
... es nur, dass Japan in Kriege verwickelt war...) und auch die Burg (die von der Atombombe zerstoert wurde) mir angeschaut. Hiroshima ist eine recht grosse Stadt, 1,2 Millionen Einwohner (1945 hatte es 350000 Einwohner, 140000 davon starben direkt durch die ...
NICK: My nuclear soapbox.
... was justified: 1) to "save a million lives" because the Japanese would have fought to the death in a land invasion of Japan. 2) that Hiroshima was a military city that was used to make ships, planes, train soldiers, etc. 3) it would bring a quick end ...
Day 28 - 29 - Hiroshima / Miyajima Island
... what happened. The one disadvantage to the hostel is the 12 midnight curfew, and the lack of internet. We walked around central Hiroshima for a bit, a thriving modern city similar in a lot of ways to Osaka... Caught a movie ('Stoned' - all about Brian ...
Head first into the atomic era.
... the chain reaction inside a Hydrogen Bomb. It gives you an idea of how powerful it is. For the first time in history mankind has the capability of destroying the world. Let's hope Hiroshima's message will forever be heard. ...