New Hiroden Hiroshima
14-9 Osuga-cho, Minami-ku Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Chugoku, 732-0821, Japan
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Hiroshima
Weds 20th Oct
This evening we arrived at the Hiroden Hotel, dumped our bags off and went to visit the A-Bomb Dome, the building which was almost directly underneath the nuclear bomb, amazingly it still stands although the damage is obvious. We were told that the building survived because as the bomb fell all of the energy spread out from the …
Miyajima Island
We awoke this morning and headed down to Tokyo station to pickup our Shinkansen train for the 4 hour ride to Hiroshima. The ride was very smooth and before we knew it we were pulling into Hiroshima Station. After talking to the information desk, we headed over to our hotel to check in and drop off some luggage before we headed out to Miyajima …
A-Bomb Dome and Peace Park
Finally a day that we could sleep in! We slept in until about 7:30 this morning, which for us was a major deal. After a big breakfast at the hotel, we headed out for our day at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the second main reason we wanted to come to Hiroshima (Miyajima island being the other).
The first thing you see at the park is …
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Hiroshima
... tremendous heat and blast. Heat from the super-hot fireball raised temperatures on the ground near the hypocenter to 3,000 to 4,000 degrees centigrade, igniting fires throughout the city. The super-high pressure at the epicenter of the explosion generated a shockwave followed by a powerful blast wind that instantly crushed buildings. Within two kilometers of the hypocenter, most buildings were totally collapsed and burned.”
Some of the objects on display ...
The lady who lunches....dinners....morning teas
... have weekly discussions on English language magazine or newspaper articles, and they’re facilitated by a native English speaker – I did that once a month in my last year in Hiroshima and always had a good time. It was good to hear the points of view from a different culture about environmental things, health, but sometimes something completely frivolous like a royal baby and the succession of males or females. Hara-san was the lone male but now there ...



