Comfort Hotel Hiroshima

A HOUSEKEEPING NOTE I arrived in Hiroshima this afternoon.  When I got to the Comfort Hotel, they were VACUUMING THE DRIVEWAY!!!  I was so amazed.  In case you haven't performed this particular act of housekeeping before, it's done ...

... The dude on the train who works in an auto parts factory and loves American cinema. The friendly and supportive staff of the Hiroshima Comfort Inn A group of random schoolgirls, and many other students at the peace museum, who greeted us and insisted on ...

... loaned me out one of the hotel bikes, though on the form it said about how parking a bike anywhere par a few places in Hiroshima was against the law. I wound up parking the bike where I thought the map had read and walking to a ¥100 store. So ...

Directly after our arrival at Hiroshima I decided to like that little city. Well organised the tourist information was right in front of the train station, nice little trams took one around the city the core of which was squared and structured to make ...

... – hard to capture in single photos but see some of the ones we have captured.  Headed back to the hotel and bed.   Hiroshima Peace Park Morning of Thursday 31st Dec – up early again – headed out to Cafe Denmark for ...

... 1941 which dragged the US into the war..   but not justifiable.. losses in Pearl Harbour was around 2350.. victims in Hiroshima alone crossing a few hundred thousands..   I have been wondering all these days, how many cities in Japan still have ...

... ; Perhaps there is a coherent thread here that I can tease out later.  Just two quick practical asides.  Our two hotel rooms in Hiroshima, which cost us $62 each, were the nicest cheap hotel rooms we stayed in our whole trip.  And Hiroshima ...

... our Peace Memorial experiences, we sauntered through the famous shopping street and went on to the Okonomiyaki village to try some Hiroshima okonomiyaki. It wasn't a big hit with the family, which surprised me. Okonomiyaki (a cross between pizza and a ...

(Katharine) We're in Hiroshima, the place where 'Little Boy', the Atomic Bomb, was dropped.  After what seemed like a week's worth of sightseeing,we went to dinner at a food court. The kids wanted to eat at a Itailan restaurant but Mom and ...

Der Nachtbus von Kyoto nach Hiroshima war alles andere als angenehm. Mit Rückenschmerzen besuchten wir das Peace Memorial Museum. Es war einiges los wegen der Goldenen Woche, Feiertage für Japan. Das Museum zeigte die Kriegsgeschichte ...

... only change is that its still 30 degrees but grey clouds! I think we will be ok. Yesterday we went to Mirijima Island off Hiroshima, a world heritige site on the Inland Japanese Sea. The boat took us directly from a pier at our hotel and in 30 ...

... on in one step, but we managed while carrying both kids. It felt good to be traveling again. The sky is clear blue in Hiroshima. Our hotel, the ANA Crowne Plaza, was a long way from the Shinkansen station and no-one I asked knew where it was, even the ...

... right then that we canceled our stay in Nara.  We were, originally, gonna stay here for 8 days, and visit Kyoto and Hiroshima, but I honestly wasn't very impressed by what I saw of Kyoto. I honestly think I like Tokyo better; I was just getting used ...

... leading up to WW2 as well as many years before it. Despite the civillian deaths, it was quite clearly laid out why Hiroshima was a legitimate military target, and there was even some representation of the argument that in using the bomb and ending the war ...

... reached our destination successfully, we had our "prize" in our hands (the sake we bought) and we were now back in the comfort of our hotel room with the city lights softly twinkling high above Osaka city – we were together and so very happy and so ...

... balanced view and there is no mention of the atrocities committed by the Vietnamese troops. We had been to the museum in Hiroshima a few years ago and whilst that is clearly politically an anti nuclear museum and shows the lasting damage caused by the ...

... a lorry with 'body factory proud' written on the side which i noticed and had extended laughs with. After the great comfort of this first hotel, i must say it was downhill,with Internet access either not free and/or no Japanese baths to bath in after a ...

... weeks the Japanese army killed well over 300,000 people.  To make it easier to comprehend, that is more than both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs combined.    What did the nasty little buggers do?    They used the ...