Hiroshima Ryokans - Reviews and Rates

Partie sous la pluie pour 2 heures et demie de train entre kobe et hiroshima, rendu a hiroshima vers 14h00, le temps etait nuageux mais sans pluie. Partie visiter le parc de la paix et le musee sur le bombardement d'hiroshima. C'est un peux comme le musee sur les camps de concentration en polgne, l'atmosphere est lourde.

We depart Shinagawa station bound for Hiroshima after changing trains in Osaka arriving at 12.30pm. After checking into the Granvia Hotel which was right next to the station we grabbed some lunch and decided to catch a taxi to the 'A' Bomb dome and Peace Park, taxi costing us $10 AU. We couldn't find where the trams were to catch them but later ...

"Our journey together has only begun. In the horizon, I see a rising sun." My dad just recently informed me that this was the quote I decided to use in my high school yearbook before graduating nearly six years ago. I envisioned a rising sun in my future, the bright red disc represented on the Japanese flag. Apparently I was destined to have thi...

Konichi-wa, in meinem Ryokan gab es keinen Internetzugang, daher etwas verspaetet der blog-eintrag. Das Ryokan hatte auch kein besonders tolles Bad, eine knapp 1m lange Wanne fuer das ganze Hotel (18 Zimmer), ein japanisches Bad stelle ich mir anders vor. Hiroshima lebt ganz gut von seinem UNESCO Weltkulturerbe. Ja, richtig gehoert, der A-Bomb D...

In these busy days of reporting on the FIBA World Championship, there's been no time to devote to this site, but today's entry is a continuation of the last one. *** Spotted on one of the city's many memorials is inscribed this poem: "A Song for Aug. 6th, 1945" Out of the night that covered her The stricken town began to stir Out of bewilderment...

There really isn't a lot to say about Hiroshima, it doesn't have very many old buildings and there is an air of sadness all around. I felt a little uncomfortable going to the war memorial so in the end I didn't stay long. Seeing where the A-Bombīs epicenter was really takes your breath away, the building almost directly under the blast is still ...

this was a very emotional city to be in and say goodbye by to Japan from. The atmosphere is magnificent, and heart-rending. A city flattened by power and given itself over to calling for peace. No anger, no hate, not guilt-tripping, no accusations - only a united call of peace, for disarmament. The way the history of the place is dealt with - th...