Hiroshima Intelligent Hotel Grand

... a year and see this old wooden bridge so often, but I am still fascinated with it.<br> <br> The golden lights define the figurative art of wooden structure in the evening. I realize how elaborate the structure of the bridge is, and feel that there could be no other bridges like this.

Go Baystars! <br><br> We arrived in Hiroshima in the afternoon and noticed 2 baseball stadiums on the map nearby so we looked it up online and score! there was a home game!!! We took the streetcar (tram) to the Railway Station and then walked to the Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium. Unfortunately all of the cheaper home seat sections were sold out so we ended up in the visitor section..the Yokohama Baystars. We highly recommend ...

... s tässä oli iltaa viettäessä. Keskiviikkona mentiin lautalla Miyajimalle, jossa pakoiltiin jälleen varastelevia kauriita ja tällä kertaa päätettiin (minä, Katja ja Tuomo) kiivetä ihan ylös asti. Koska aikaa ei ollut hirveästi, niin mentiin köysiradalla ylös ja takaisin alas käveltiin, mutta ihan tarpeeksi rankka juttu oli näinkin. Jalat oli aivan puhki! Ylhäältä oli todella hienot maisemat ja aivan älyttömästi apinoita, jotka on yksiä perhanan varkaita! Yrittivät ...

... be extinguished until the last nuclear weapon on earth has been destroyed. There is also a cenotaph, and every year there is a ceremony where the names of all those that have died from the effects of the bomb are placed inside. The garden is designed so there is a direct line of sight through these to the A-bomb dome. There is a relatively new Peace Memorial Hall (built in 2002). The memorial itself symbolises the time of the bomb and there is a water fountain in memory ...

... the south exit. Took some photos of the 'A' bomb dome then walked over to the Peace Park Museum costing 50 cents AU to enter. It was very interesting but sad with many items of children's clothing on display, of course the children died but the families kept the clothing only to donate it to the Museum years later. Caught a taxi back to the Hotel and went and had a noodle dinner local to the area.

... It also should be noted that it was my fault we got on the 'wrong' train in the first place. Tom just wrote down the directions incorrectly. In FACT it would take us about 4 hours to actually get to Kanazawa.<br><br>So, instead we opted for Kamakura, a tiny little tourist town with a large temple complex located in a valley. There also seemed to be a religious festival on at the time in which people threw white arrows in a a bonfire and prayed for prosperity.<br><br>The ...

... a fun one.<br><br>However, given that Rachael will no doubt recount the entire last few days in detail, I'll refrain from babbling endlessly too much and try to keep this paragraph to the good stuff. First and foremost, snow is probably my most favorite thing ever. After a botched attempt to visit Kanazawa thanks in part to both confusing Shinkansen terminals and rushed planning, the trip to Takayama was particularly refreshing. The two hour train ride ...

Jumped on the newest Shinkanzen (bullet train) from Tokyo to Hiroshima (after finding out we couldn't get it on the day we wanted, slight **** moment but got it the day after.) Did 950 km in a little over two and a half hours. Why can:t we get **** like that is aus??? So just finished a visit to Hiroshima, slept on a mat ...

When I was in Germany in 98, I'd avoided going to one of the most depressing and sad historical locations, the Dachau concentration camp. I did the same thing again with Auschwitz in my later european travels. Again, I'd been reluctant to go to Hiroshima since I knew that the history of the Atomic Bomb is the only thing that this city is really known for. While I'd rather not depress my travels, I knew that this was something ...

... the Peace Memorial Museum to have the sobering and chilling impact I expected. While it certainly pulls no punches in conveying the extent of the atrocity, the museum does give a fairly balanced view of the greater picture at the same time. The whitewashing of the military regime that some disreputable history books in Japan promote isn't given any credence here. At the same time, the personal effects are a little hard to stomach. By the time I got through the rooms ...