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Travel Blogs from Iwakuni
Famous Bridge to the past
... rebuilt, the really famous icon is a bridge. The bridge provides juxtaposition between the current town of Iwakuni versus the old castle town which includes old style houses, streets and parks set below the castle and stretching towards the bridge. Even in the heat we managed to marvel at the picture postcard old town and smirk at the cluttered and disorganised modern town whilst wandering ...
A sad day in Hiroshima..
... 1488;ד (בהיקף של "יד ושם", לדעתי) שמספר מה היו הסיבו 14; ההיסט 93;ריות האמית 97;ות להפלת הפצצה ע"י ...
Reino Inn - Hiroshima
... method of transport is it's old fashioned trams. We booked into the Reino Inn hotel, an Eco friendly hostel, which basically means they do not provide any amenities and the air con turns off automatically every 20 minutes and got very annoying! Other than that, clean and comfy bed :)
We walked the short distance to the Peace Memorial Museum. It was so saddening to see the tragic ...
Hiroshima: Maddeningly profound
... photographs seem unreal. Perhaps that's why the masses school students swarming the museum seemed so upbeat and cheerful taking pictures, imaging it were nothing but a zombie film out next fall in theaters. It doesn't actually seem poignant until the end of the tour, after all the artifacts and figures and models, when you can listen to the video testimonies of actual survivors. Their stories are horrible and terrifying. But does it seem real even for them, anymore, ...
A tram stop called "A-bomb dome"
... even intensified the effect of the a-bomb, as I learned later in the museum... The museum and the entire park are very well done and the exhibition in the museum does not just show the effect the bomb had (I was afraid of seeing too many horrifying images - but it was possibly to walk past them quite quickly and to concentrate on the other bits, quite a relief!) The museum also explains the role Hiroshima had in Japan and why it was chosen as a ...
Other places to stay in Iwakuni
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Green Rich Hotel Iwakuni Ekimae
2-5-21 Marifumachi, Iwakuni | Hotelfrom $59 -
Iwakuni Kokusai Kanko Hotel
1-1-7 Iwakuni, Iwakuni | Hotelfrom $85 -
Iwakuni Plaza Hotel
2-9-30 Marifumachi, Iwakuni | Hotel -
City Hotel Andoh
2-3-8 Marifu-Cho, Iwakuni | Hotel -
Hotel Alpha-1 Iwakuni
4-8-2 Marifumachi, Iwakuni | Hotel -
Iwakuni City View Hotel
3-1-12 Marifumachi, Iwakuni | Hotel -
Business Hotel Marifu
4-14-21 Marifumachi, Iwakuni | Hotel