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Hiroshima Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hiroshima, Japan
A sad day in Hiroshima
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 are now on the train to Nagoya...and we are late..as usual! Tonight we'll ...
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. ...
"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 ...
The Shrines of Miyajima
... fish curry - turned out really delicious and we had a feast! During the day I went to Miyajima island, about 40 min from Hiroshima by train, then ferry. This is considered one of the top 3 most picturesque places in Japan. The orange gate in the sea is ...
Hiroshima
... center. Part of it survived, and stands there as a reminder of this grim chapter of human history. The museum was shocking and terrifying! However, Hiroshima today is a lovely city, located around the delta of 6 rivers, between the sea and the mountains. ...
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 ...
Absolutely beautiful
... with a 2 hour bus ride. That was basically how I spent the day. Traveling. A shame but it had to be done. When I got to Hiroshima, I caught the tram to the last stop so that I could take the ferry across to Miyajima (an island) and find my hostel. The ...
Slow boat to Miyajima
An overcast and occasionally rainy day set a mystic atmosphere for my day trip to the island Miyajima. Elaborate temples, floating shrines and a Buddhist ceremony were accompanied by the surrounding natural setting. Monks chanted and play bells that ...
Beautiful Miyajima
Miyajima: This morning we got up extremely early to get to Miyajima at its best viewing time, high tide. Miyajima is a shrine that, if you visit during high tide, appears as if it is floating on water. Fortunately, after a little tide research and some ...
Hiroshima, Uzbekistan and Vodka
... was good times, and of course we're pros now. About 200 km, a little nap and under 2 hours later we arrived at Hiroshima Station. Had my first experience with a squat toilet after getting off the shinkansen. I'd managed to avoid them so far... was really ...
Mom and Dad in Japan
... mom and dad got to meet my host families and friends. They saw my school, where I hang out, and watched me dance traditional 'Nihon buyo'. We also got to travel on our own around Japan a little bit. I'll explain more in the picture captions. Enjoy! ...
Grande route
... , je suis retourné à la gare, de toute façon j'avais fait le tour. Petite route en train de 1h30 et je suis arrivé à Hiroshima. Le temps de me rendre à l'hôtel et je suis allé dans un petit restaurant pas très loin. Les propriétaires étaient ...
First Atomic Bomb
... ; D, construction etc,WOW! alot of dosh!!! The museum was very informative but its also very sad. In Hiroshima there is a flame burning and it will continue to burn until all of the nuclear bombs in the world have been ...
Headed south
... hours. Beautiful weather. Beautiful city. We realized what was different - the previous places were very industrial - Hiroshima is more cosmopolitan. It has a very European feel. We checked into our hotel. Ryokan ...
Day 6 - We invade Hiroshima
... just short of a 2 hour trip. Not real pleasant, as it was pretty much fully booked. When we arrived in Hiroshima station we followed the World Friendship Centre guidelines and took a tram (or "street-car" as they are known here) ...