Business Hotel Marifu

4-14-21 Marifumachi, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Chugoku, 740-0018, Japan | Hotel

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A travel blog entry by f.goldthorpe

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... their ultimate destination, Mio. Once there the guys explored the village on foot and then headed for the sea shore where they spent the night sleeping on a boulder . With pockets full of beach pebbles as mementoes they returned to Osaka by 10 the next morning.

That afternoon we left Osaka for Hiroshima on the Shinkansen. Luckily they were willing (but not happy about it) to replace the tickets for the train ...

Hiroshima, Japan

A travel blog entry by 30sam3

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... They even posed for pictures for us. They all looked so nicely dressed in their uniforms! We got back on the streetcar to go back to Hiroshima Port, however there were many people and lots of traffic resulting in some delays. We had some confusion in that we had to change lines, but a local person let us know what we needed to do. This delayed us a bit, so we really had to hustle on the 10-15 minute walk to ...

A-Bomb Horror

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

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... peace.

The museum was tough, but eye opening and we left with a much better understanding of the awful effects.

It was interesting to see how the Japanese had dealt with it, horrific is the only way we can describe it. We then went to take a look around the Children’s Peace Memorial and were amazed by some of the incredible paper crane designs that had been made by groups and were stored there in the name of peace, ...

Atomic bomb - When war = business + $$$ + power?

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... caused.

The museum, in my opinion, did a wonderful job of presenting materials and information in a fair and just way. It's purpose seemed to be not to direct blame but rather to ensure that never, ever again would a nuclear bomb of any kind be dropped ever again. (I do have to very cynically add though that directing blame at your now ally and the country who has agreed to protect you should you be attacked may not be the most strategic thing to do.)


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Amazing Japanese hospitality

A travel blog entry by michael_lizi

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... then took us out to his favourite bar in Kure. It was a shabby old looking building that looked like it had come straight out of a Vietnam war movie. The bar man was a bit of a card and even gave me a present! He only opens for about an hour and a half a day until his keg of beer runs out. The beer dispenser itself was a wonderful old steel cabinet that has a slab of ice inserted into it to chill the beer - it was 50 years old. It ...

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