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Itsukushima Shrine
... gingen.
Today we went to the Itsukushima Shrine. For this you have to take the train 30 minutes out of Hiroshima and then the ferry to the island Miyajima.
The Shrine is very big and beautiful. The toori is on the sand if there is ebb and in the water if der is flow. It's also a symbol of Japan.
Because we were there at the right time, the tide was changing and we saw it both ways.
At midday came so many tourists, that we decided to go back to the ...
My Country Tis of Thee
Hiroshima calls itself the City of Peace and it seems pretty ******* dedicated to it. There is the Peace Park, the Peace Boulevard, Peace Park, and Peace Museum. 140,000 people were killed here by Little Boy, our cute name for one of two nuclear weapons ever used against people., including thousands of Korean 'forced laborers.' i.e. innocent slaves and sex slaves. But no U.S. POWs - we picked ...
Hiroshima and Miyajima
... same path we came, just to find the temple and Torii on solid ground! The Torii only appears to be floating at high tide, and when the tide is low, it is approachable by foot from the island, which was really cool.
On that evening we had the most amazing sushi in Japan, back in Hiroshima.
To be honest I don't know the name of the restaurant, I found it randomly by walking around the Sun Shopping center. We were following the road to an internet cafe ...
City of Peace
... Sasaki, who, whilst in hospital dying, strived to make 1000 origami cranes in order for her wish to stay alive be granted. There are now thousands of paper cranes surrounding the memorial, and we left two while we were there (although it took us quite a while to fold them!) We then walked to the A-Bomb Dome, which was one of the only things not obliterated by the explosion. After looking at a few other memorials, we left the Park and started making our way back to ...
Day 43 - A day of remembrance....
... are America, France, UK, North Korea and the Soviet Union. Although the following countries have denied owning such a weapon, Pakistan and India own and have tested these weapons.
I now have a better understanding of what happened before and after the bombing. Not sure why, but all I knew there was a nuclear bomb that went off in Hiroshima, and that was it.
The burns that people had gotten from the ...
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