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Hiroshima Slideshow
Hiroshima
Travel Blogs from Hiroshima, Japan
Sight seeing with Two awesome Japanese people
... they were nodding a lot at whatever it was I was going on about. We went to Miyajima to see the floating shrine and then Hiroshima castle. Then on the evening they showed me how to eat proper Japanese style where you cook the meat on a stove in the ...
Harrowing Hiroshima
... We must never forget the mistakes of the past and these bombings were without question, a monumental mistake. The museums at Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained countless harrowing tales like these, putting a human face to the horrendous event. Kirilee ...
Hiroshima
Leaving Tokyo behind for a few days, we have our first taste of the famed efficient, fast bullet trains and arrive in Hiroshima at exactly the prescribed hour. We have just one full day to visit this city and pay our respects to its tragic ...
The perfect day
... great castle but we had to head over to our second designation of the day - iconic Miyajima. We took the Shinkansen to Hiroshima. The train was actually not the same Shinkansen trains we've taken before. It was a Rail Star train which I ...
History Lesson
... , we felt a powerful draw to see the area especially when we heard that Obama plans to be the first active U.S. President to visit Hiroshima. So early this morning we went back to the madness of the Kyoto Train Station and hopped on a bullet train to ...
The A-Bomb
... Alex who was from Holland there. He had been travelling for 6 years and had spent the past 2 years in Japan. He recommended places to go in Hiroshima and even offered us accommodation in Perth, Australia where his sister lived. We ended up staying for a ...
Sushi, Compounding and everything in between
... I have ever seen. We started our week out on Monday with a campus tour of the university, including a tour of the Hiroshima University Pharmacy School, which I might add is 7 floors!!! For dinner, we had our first sushi experience at a kaiten zushi (a ...
Let there be peace in this world
... Miraculously the structure of the building remained standing (it was a prestigious government building at the time), however the rest of hiroshima was completely flattened by the bomb. This building will forever be left in ruins to remind the ...
Arrival in Hiroshima
We spent the morning in Takayama and travelled about 6 hours to Hiroshima via four bullet trains. Hiroshima is very busy and I forgot my Geiger counter. It is a mix of reflection and hope with a lot of `live for the day` and have ...
First glimpse at the A-bomb dome
... feeling of shock when you first see it with your own eyes. It is truly a sad, sad sight, but so important nonetheless. As Hiroshima was rebuilt after the bomb quite a lot of controversy surrounded the Dome, some locals wanted it torn down as it was a sad ...
Death, destruction and deers.
... . Very very horrific. The next day I went to Miyajima. This is an island off the coast of suburban Hiroshima and home to 1 of the 3 'best views of Japan'. It has the famous floating torii (gate) that many people have probably seen on postcards. The ...
Hiroshima - its very wet
... the moment. Anyway, enough moaning about the weather. You think Id be used to it growing up in England. Arrived in Hiroshima yesterday, found a baseball stadium and the A-Bomb dome last night. I think its unbelievable when you think that 60 years ago ...
Miyajima
... the Sadako statue to chant the Mele Kahea and to offer our thousand cranes. But right after we did the Mele Kahea some kids from Japan sang a song and tried to make us look bad but they were not as good as us. Lunch was at a restaurant named Serenado. ...
Hiroshima...a suprisingly chilled place
... impact. They've preserved the remains of this building which was one of the few structures left (partially) standing in central Hiroshima after the 1945 bomb. The Museum itself was set in the Peace Park just across the river. Obviously this is the ...
"This world is it, I will make it my home"
... trees, healthy and beautiful. During my brief encounter, I sensed these trees embodied the city in which they stand. Hiroshima, once burned and blasted beyond any destruction ever witnessed before or since, stands today a literal phoenix. A ...
from Nao-shima to Hiro-shima
... floor mattreses. we were starving, as we hadnt eaten all day that day, so we got a recommendation to eat hiroshima's specialty - okonomiyaki - its bascially like a pancake, but only filled with cabbage, noodles, and other additions - it is ...
Moment Of Surrender
... has been a bit of a growth experience for Derek, at least judging by the scale of this latest accommodation (see photo). Hiroshima needs little introduction….as the target of the world’s first nuclear bomb, it was difficult to know just what ...
Golden Week 2007-Hiroshima Part 2.
After the museum, we walked back out into the sunny, warm weather; into a world that seemed so at odds with what I had just experienced for the last hour and a half or so. I kept wondering if any of these people, sitting on benches, eating ice ...
A moving peace memorial
... images, and devastating firsthand stories from survivors. At 8:15 am on August 6th in 1945, the US dropped an A-Bomb, in Hiroshima and a second in Nagasaki, effectively wiping out the populations in a moment. No warning was given to its people, and this ...
Japanese Vacation
... nuclear weapon on earth is destroyed. Hiroshima is a beautiful, yet humbling city to visit. In fact, a visit to Japan without a stop in Hiroshima is not only ill-advised, but would show a deep lack of respect and understanding of Japanese history...in ...
Forbidden Island
As part of my trip to Hiroshima, I took one day to travel to the island of Miyajima in the Japan inland sea. It's a beautiful island with great views, many shrines, monkeys in the mountains, and really tame deer that just lounge about in the shade of the ...
Hiroshima
... so ear popping is quite a common thing (well for me anyway) Just under two hours later I arrived at Hiroshima's main station. like everywhere in Japan you are never really sure if your going the right way having been given the bare essentials about 100 ...
We Have Found Our Group's Passion
After leaving Niihama this morning we took the Shiokaze train back to Okayama and there caught a shinkansen to Hiroshima. From there we took a local train to Miyajima. After a short ferry boat ride we got to Miyajima just before noon. The origin of ...
Hiroshima: check... Miyajima: check...
... of no more bombs and the desire of the peace throughout the museum, as well as the city. After that, I headed off to Hiroshima Castle, which was (of course) destroyed during the atomic bomb attack, so it was a relatively recent reconstruction. It ...
oh deer oh deer
... it was just past nine when the phone or something woke me up, but I'd said I'd meet Carli and her dad for a morning out in Hiroshima. Oh well, I still had a seafood miso soup (beware of the shells!) and an onigiri waiting for me, so I stepped out into yet ...
Miyajima
Miyajima is an island just off the coast of Western Honshu near Hiroshima. It is famous for its "floating torii" gate which is surrounded by water (at high tide only). It was thought to be so holy that people had to approach it by boat. This is thought to ...
Miyajima to Peace Park to Osaka
... disappointment. Back down via the ropeway we made our way through the quaint settlement on Miyajima and boarded the ferry back over to Hiroshima. From the main train station we boarded a street car (tram) for the short trip to the atomic bomb dome and ...
Miyajima
... the waitresses there seemed to scared to talk to us. To their supprise I ordered in Japanese they were fine after that. We headed back to Hiroshima afterwards. On the train back I saw a man of 70 plus playing on a Nintendo DS, I'm sure that no 70 year old ...