Blogs from Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Asia - page 13

Konnichiwa from Hiroshima and Miyajima!! Hiroshima, probably one of the most famous cities in the world, needs no introduction. We thought to ourselves, what are we going to see? It has been 70 or so years since the tragidy ccured. Will there be old relics of twisted steel, concrete, and rock? Will there be no plants around, no animals, no life over the bombsite? Thankfully our first encounter with Hiroshima revealed a bright and busy metropolis. Tons of shopping, food, parks, and of course museums. In the center of the city lies a large park. Within the park lies the memorial site, the a bomb dome, and the museum. When you first see the A-bomb dome site, it is hard to realize what happened there. What did it look like before the bomb, after the bomb, ... read more

Jestem pod wielkim wrazeniem Hiroshimy! jest to miasto, ktore sie podnioslo, choc zadany cios byl smiertleny. Udalo im sie odbudowac miasto, udalo im sie powrocic do zycai i cieszyc sie zyciem. Przed atakiem Hiroshima liczyla 300tys ludzi, po ataku 100 tys, dzisiaj ponad milion. Miejsca upamietniajace tragedie calkowice uswiadamiaja skale nieszczescia, uswiadamiaja jak ciezko bylo powrocic do zycia. Nie wiem jak im sie to udalo, ale caly teren upamietniajacy wybuch bomby, jest pelen spokoju, pelen szacunku, ale nie narzuca opini, nie robiia nikomu wyrzutow. to jest miejsce upamietniajace tragedie, ale rowniez miejsc, ktore pokazuje, ze Hiroshima sie nie padala, ze zyc dalej i bedzie walczyc o pokoj! najwieksze wrazenie zrobil na mnie kopiec usypany z ludzkich prochow... nie wiadomo czy sie przezegnac, poklonic czy zaklaskac (w wersji shinto), chcialoby sie zrobic wszystko, a nie mozna zr ... read more

Jessie and I don't consider ourselves travelers. We're home bodies, generally content to stick close to what we know. However, because we realize this, we often find ourselves (especially in Japan) stepping out of that comfort zone in order to experience new things. We had been planning to take a trip, alone, to some far off place in Japan since our arrival here, and having saved up enough money we finally got a weekend that looked good, and we took off to Hiroshima. Now, many tourists consider this stopping point in southern Japan a must-see site. But, when we told some of our Japanese friends about our plans, the response was "Why do you want to go to Hiroshima?" Our answer:"There's a lot of recent history there." -- a simplistic answer to an uncomfortable question. But, ... read more

We arrived into Japan on the 21st of May and took the bullet train staight for the ancient capital, Kyoto. On our first day of temple hopping I was very excited to see so many Geisha walking around, at first when you see their beautiful kimonos　and pail faces you feel liｋe they are almost alien to this fast moving motropolise, however, you quickly learn that in Kyoto they are a large part of the landscape and they are actually very sweet and approchable. They giggle alot! On our second day in Kyoto we headed for a fantastic monkey reserve where after a fairly steep mountain walk you are surrounded by friendly Japanese monkeys. We were able to feed them and even got very close to a mother and baby which was born only three days earlier！ ... read more

Hiroshima was the first city in History to have an A bomb dropped on it. The American bombers dropped the bomb on the August 6, 1945. The bomb exploded 500 meters in the air, so never actually hit the ground. Up until then Hiroshima was one of the only cities in Japan not to receive any bombings during WW II, until that eventful day that is. The bombers used an area where two bridges met that formed a T shape as their target. The A bomb dome building, the only building in the area that was left to remind the people of the world what a terrible thing happened here. You can see from the photos the before and after shots of the building. Everybody in the building that day died. Hiroshima was a relatively new ... read more